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Hi,
I picked some stuff at auction today including a box of Imperial .410 paper shot shells and a box of CIL .22 long cartridges called .22 Whiz Bang. The box on the latter is pretty rough. Is this stuff worth anything to anybody or should I just shoot it?
Thanks
 
Unless the cartridges are rare, and 22 and 410 are not, collectors want nice boxes. I'd shoot them. Watch that the 22 may be black powder. Or you can display the boxes. I have probably 40 old ammo boxes in the man cave. They look great. No value, but is value what makes stuff interesting?
 
My wife was given a .22 rifle by my old school teacher in he 1980s with a paper bag full of Whiz Bang cartridges. She shot a deer between the eyes with one. And a Canada goose too.

Collector's sites say it's from the 1950s.
 
Shot lots of Whiz Bang in the days of yore. One Christmas, I was given a whole brick of it by my parents. Man, I was on top of the world. That same year, my buddy was given a brick of Super Clean. :dancingbanana:
 
When I worked at CIL I questioned my boss why we were trying to break into the American market. He explained that a Canadian would buy one or two boxes of 22, whereas an American would buy one or two bricks.

I don't recall 22 ammo being offered by the brick in the 50s. I was given a brick by my grandfather and I thought it was almost a lifetime supply.
 
.22 CIL Whiz Bang was standard fare well into the 60s. Most of us kids could not afford more than a box at a time. A brick was undreamed of luxury.
Collectors want crisp boxes with this relatively recent ammo.
 
saskbooknut said:
.22 CIL Whiz Bang was standard fare well into the 60s. Most of us kids could not afford more than a box at a time. A brick was undreamed of luxury.
Collectors want crisp boxes with this relatively recent ammo.
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That was the first ammo I bought. I believe in the late '50s the .22 shorts sold for about fifty cents a box. We used shorts because their mild report allowed us to shoot them without causing concern from nosy neighbours.
 
Rod B said:
That was the first ammo I bought. I believe in the late '50s the .22 shorts sold for about fifty cents a box. We used shorts because their mild report allowed us to shoot them without causing concern from nosy neighbours.
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Back in 1958, in the town of Ste Anne de Bellevue on western end of montreal island ,was /is ?? a great 3 story general store D'Aousts that sold Everything from custom tailored suits to adult galvonized wash tubs, coal oil lamps to dishes ,shoes, fishing AND hunting equipment.... at 11 years old,i would take granddads boat across the river/lake with 48 cents to buy a yellow box of .22 long Wizz-Bangs..... back then,seems kids were able to run powerboats and handle firearms safely......... wonder where things went wrong EH!!!
Anyhow, heres to C.I.L. Worlds best darn ammo.
 
POPS said:
Back in 1958, in the town of Ste Anne de Bellevue on western end of montreal island ,was /is ?? a great 3 story general store D'Aousts that sold Everything from custom tailored suits to adult galvonized wash tubs, coal oil lamps to dishes ,shoes, fishing AND hunting equipment.... at 11 years old,i would take granddads boat across the river/lake with 48 cents to buy a yellow box of .22 long Wizz-Bangs..... back then,seems kids were able to run powerboats and handle firearms safely......... wonder where things went wrong EH!!!
Anyhow, heres to C.I.L. Worlds best darn ammo.
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Things started going wrong when the "Hippies" started their permissive lifestyle in the mid '60s, do your own thing all that crap.
 
Rod B said:
That was the first ammo I bought. I believe in the late '50s the .22 shorts sold for about fifty cents a box. We used shorts because their mild report allowed us to shoot them without causing concern from nosy neighbours.
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We shot shorts when we couldn't come up with enough money for a box or two of LR ammo. They were considerably cheaper, once. The Coca Cola Company financed an awful lot of my shooting as a kid, when they were putting money values as well as free pop and chips, on bottle cap lid liners. A magnet onna string, and hit up a couple pop machines... A kid gotta do what he can! :)

I was given a beautiful condition brick box of Whizz-Bang shot loads, a couple bunches of years back, that had a little over half the boxes remaining inside it, absolutely untouched.

I sold it to a fellow at a gun show, took the money I got, and bought pretty close to, maybe a bit more than, an equal amount of ammo I could use. The stuff isn't gonna make you any richer, but it makes ammo and ammo box collectors happier, if you don't mind putting in the time, and you don't expect to have won a lottery.

Cheers
Trev
 
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