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Unread 09-17-2021, 06:20 PM   #1
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Default Remington “Blue Rocks”

I picked up 3 cases of “Blue Rocks”, I don’t know when Remington discontinued them but for $5 each it was okay. I haven’t even opened them so I don’t know what color they are. They used to have “Orange Dome” stamped on the cases but I can’t find anything on the boxes except the stamp in the photo. Any idea when they were made? The YD in the code may be for yellow dome and perhaps the 71 could be manufactured in 1971. The price tag’s say $2.99. I think it would be sort of nostalgic to dust them, or try to.
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Unread 09-17-2021, 07:02 PM   #2
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After 1963, as the address has a Zip Code.

Blue Rocks were a product of the Chamberlin Cartridge & Target Co. from the 1890s, first in Cleveland and then later at their factory in Findley, Ohio. In August 1933, Remington Arms Co., Inc. acquired Chamberlin and the Findley factory.

https://www.remingtonsociety.org/produc ... d-ware-ii/

I don't know when they moved to Ada, OK.
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Found a little bit more. In 1966 clay target demand exceeded the Findley plant capacity and they bought a building in Ada, OK. Production began in Ada in 1967. On Trapshooters.com they said Remington got out of the clay target business in 2008.
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All clay targets were "blue rock" in our part of the world; "wanna go shoot some blue rock?". Cool find!
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I ran the Remington clay target business from 1991-2001. The boxes you have are older than that and your guess as to what is in the box is right on. They are Yellow Dome and made in 1971.

During my tenure in that business I sold over 3 Billion of them! When the "Pat Trap" came along for the trapshooting game, the Blue Rock was too fragile for those machines with the high-volume stacking and machine vibration. In spite of all that was attempted to remedy the situation, we could not find a formula that would prevent around 10% breakage.

White Flyer, which made a tougher target, went through the Pat Traps with little breakage and they, of course, dominate the Trap game today.

At one time Remington had three plants; Findlay, Ohio, Ada, Oklahoma and Athens, Georgia. The Athens plant was closed before 1979. As noted, the Findlay and Ada plants closed in 2008.
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I bought an early black one but it crumbled, unfortunately. Handle with care. All of this stuff from the old time is cool
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American competitive skeet shooters preferred Remington targets because they seemed to break easier than White Flyers. This is the first time I have heard that Remington knew or cared about the breakage. Very interesting comments from J. Scott Hanes. The coding on the boxes "YD----" indicates yellow dome.
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The rest of the code was the shift and the month. The number 28 was the day of the month. All the targets will have a die code on them, numbered from 1-40 something. Can't remember how many dies in a set. Findlay had three lines, Ada one and Athens had one.
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What is a "Pat Trap" and where does that name come from?
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