Talk to me about paper hulls?

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So recently I won a large lot of shotgun shells at auction. Among them were many paper hulls. All look shoot-able and most are roll-crimped. I have 6,5 and 4-shot loads.

I'm wondering would it be smarter to sell these? A few years ago when i first started gathering the bits to reload shotguns, I got a few thousand mixed hulls, included a couple dozen moldy, water-swollen paper ones, which a guy on here wanted to buy off me for cowboy action shooting. I wonder, would that be worth my time?

Also, if I did put these up on EE, are there any special considerations with shipping ammo through canada post?

Thanks for your time.
 
Almost zero value in vintage paper hulls. I know of no one reloading them any more but there may be someone
Then again you say roll crimped and shootable so are they hulls or unfired shells
Even unfired paper shells are not worth any more than a box of factory ammo at canadian tire and to sell them and have to ship would not be worth the shipping cost since no canada post will not ship ammo and couriers are very expensive
Cheers
 
If you detail what they are collectors will let you know if they have any special value but it's unlikely.

Shipping loaded ammo is going to be expensive and a bit of a hassle so local sales are your best bet. Empty hulls are not a problem.

Interest in loading paper hulls is out there. Much of it is from black powder shooters because brass shells are expensive and a specialized deal and plastic hulls very often have holes burn through with black. Cowboy shooters might want something like that so they don't have to be paranoid about brass shells getting stepped on.

Costs you nothing to post them up on the EE and see what happens.
 
ilikeoldguns said:
So recently I won a large lot of shotgun shells at auction. Among them were many paper hulls. All look shoot-able and most are roll-crimped. I have 6,5 and 4-shot loads.

I'm wondering would it be smarter to sell these? A few years ago when i first started gathering the bits to reload shotguns, I got a few thousand mixed hulls, included a couple dozen moldy, water-swollen paper ones, which a guy on here wanted to buy off me for cowboy action shooting. I wonder, would that be worth my time?

Also, if I did put these up on EE, are there any special considerations with shipping ammo through canada post?

Thanks for your time.
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You may not ship ammunition through Canada Post.

Easiest to sell locally.
 
vagrantviking said:
If you detail what they are collectors will let you know if they have any special value but it's unlikely.

Shipping loaded ammo is going to be expensive and a bit of a hassle so local sales are your best bet. Empty hulls are not a problem.

Interest in loading paper hulls is out there. Much of it is from black powder shooters because brass shells are expensive and a specialized deal and plastic hulls very often have holes burn through with black. Cowboy shooters might want something like that so they don't have to be paranoid about brass shells getting stepped on.

Costs you nothing to post them up on the EE and see what happens.
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Just courious. I know the black powder guys love the more modern ( for lack of a better word) Federal Premium Paper hulls since I have sold off all of those I had in the last 4 years but could not give the vintage paper roll crimp ones away as the OP says he has.In fact a lady took them eventually for xmas wreaths
Do they reload them also now. I understand the interest in paper hulls but not all paper hulls from what I have seen or has that changed
Even the components for them vintage ones were a tough sell for me on the EE and I think there was just one guy expressed interest that I sold 1/2 of my stash to

Cheers
 
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Actually, most plastic hulls work fine for black powder for one firing, then throw them away. i like Federal best. There is an endless supply of range pickups. Felt and fibre wads find a ready market in Saskat[SUB][/SUB]chewan and Alberta gun shows, though not big prices. Black powder shooters are thrifty.
 
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3macs1 said:
Yep. That is what I would do with them and if there is any Imperials in the batch enjoy the smell of the hulls after firing:)
Cheers
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There is no better smell than the old paper shotshells, they should make perfume from that smell, better than Channel #5!!!
 
Cleftwynd said:
There is no better smell than the old paper shotshells, they should make perfume from that smell, better than Channel #5!!!
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Yep and to this day I cannot even get close to reproducing it even reloading the old vintage paper hulls. We couldn't back in the day either and could never find out what powder they used for sure
Cheers
 
ilikeoldguns said:
A lot of imperials, actually... they smell different? why? Do you know?
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Fire one off, then sniff the empty hull, we will welcome you to the fire-n-sniff club when you report back.

I don't know why they smelled so good, my reloads never resembled the olfactory bliss those offered.
 
ilikeoldguns said:
A lot of imperials, actually... they smell different? why? Do you know?
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No idea. We tried for years to find out why. Some say it is the coating on the paper nope to that one IMO, many think it was the type of powder they used which would get my vote but I really don't know.All I know is I could never reproduce it even with imperial reloads
What I do know is if any company produced it today they would sell a hell of a lot of shotshells to us old imperial junkies ;)
Cheers
 
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