Paper shells

[Dean Romig]

It is proven fact that the sense of smell is the most powerful and influential sense that connects with memory.
Talk about nostalgia... whenever I smell the smoke from these old shells it brings me back to my youth - back to the fifties when I would walk out the kitchen door on my way to school on opening morning of pheasant season. On certain mornings the burnt powder smoke would hang low in a hazy layer over the meadows and cornfields and I would inhale all that I could and savor it as I listened to the closer pops and distant muffled banging of gunfire. I cherish those boyhood memories.

[Phil C]

You guys are spot on. The smell is one the reasons I love to shoot these paper shells. Reminds me of hunts around Christmas. My brother and I would always ask for a box of Western Super X high base shells. Dad would buy them at FAIRS Sporting goods, our local gun shop. Most of the time we shot the less expensive shells we would buy at Western Auto on sale, or at Yellow Front.
Something about chase a covey of Scale quail early in the morning. ( Ground swiping them) whenever possible. Shooting our single barrels as fast as we could load them, and chasing some more. Smoke curling from the barrels. After the shooting stopped we would get together and count our birds. The smell of the empty’s mixed with quail feathers is a smell I always remember. When I shoot these shells today it takes me back to a time of little worries, and a time of adventure.