The Elterich....

[Mark Landskov]

....'Rifled Bullet Shell' allows the 12 gauge shotgun to safely shoot 32 S&W cartridges. Information is sketchy, at best, but I am looking! I wonder if Drew Hause has anything in his archives:whistle:

[Dean Romig]

Wow! That's a neat little device.

[charlie cleveland]

i really like these little gadgets...i have a few some shoot straight and true and some are to just make a noise with but i like all of them...its neat....charlie

[Drew Hause]

Apparently marketed by Stevens in 1902.
http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1902/VOL_38_NO_26/SL3826012.pdf

J. Stevens Arms and Tool Company.
The firearms made by the J. Stevens Arms and Tool Company, Chicopee Falls, Mass., has a wide reputation. A full line of rifles and pistols were exhibited, as well as the Stevens single barrel shotgun. One of the novelties was the rifled bullet shell for shotguns. This was shaped like brass shell with a short rifle, or rather pistol barrel extension. The shell fitted into the chamber of a shotgun, and for emergency would convert a shotgun into a rifle without any more effort than inserting an ordinary shell. This rifled bullet shell was made in 10, 12 and 10 gauge, can be used in single or double guns, and are made in different calibres.

[Mark Landskov]

Thank you for the link, Drew. I appreciate it.

[Destry L. Hoffard]

I've got a 10 gauge one, they're a fun item for certain. Yours is the first I've ever seen that still has the pulling rod. Nice!

DLH

[Mark Landskov]

Thanks, Destry. I watched it on a collector website for eons at $250.00. One day it appeared at $125.00, so I grabbed it!

[Destry L. Hoffard]

Yeah, at $125 that's not a bad price. At the $250 I'd have passed as well. Now that I know what the puller looks like maybe I'll fine one in somebody's junk box at a gun show!

DLH

[AJ Glaser]

Was searching the internet for information about these and found this site. I found one for sale. Mine differs from the one pictures here in that the one that I have has an 1 3/8" barrel out the front of the brass chamber insert. Don't think these are very common. This one was sitting in a box of loose ammo on a gun shops counter for about 10 years. Owner want $50.00 for it. Yesterday I looked at it and offered $20.00 for it, he countered at $25.00 and I said "no it has been here for 10 years", he relented and I got it for my price.

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n1/usmc690303/12%20ga32.20.jpg

[Bill Murphy]

Let us know when you guys start shooting 50 yard groups with them.

[AJ Glaser]

Let us know when you guys start shooting 50 yard groups with them.

Would be curious to see how accurate it would be.

[AJ Glaser]

I took mine to the range this morning. At 50 yards it was 20 inches right and 10 inches low from point of aim with a 32-20 round. Went over to the pistol range and at 15 yards it was 4 inches left and three inches low of point of aim with 32-20 rounds. Shot a 32 ACP round through it and it was 4 inches to the left of point of aim. Have figured out it will make a nice paperweight.

[Destry L. Hoffard]

We never said they were good for anything, we just said they were fun to have in your collection......

[wayne goerres]

May be you just need to work on your loads a little. HeHe.

[Bruce Parham]

The GaugeMate (http://www.gaugemate.com/) folks make 2 3/4 and 10 in long versions that adapt shotgun to shotgun and shotgun to common rifle/pistol. Might be fun to have a 44 Mag left barrel.:rotf:

Bruce

[gary behrman]

Found this thread after I found my old bullet shell by Elterich. As a 15 yr old boy I got my first real shotgun, a Fox Sterlingworth 16 ga dbl. It came with this shell. I shot it a couple of times then put it away until it surfaced recently as I was cleaning out some boxes. I am 73 now and it is in better shape than I am. Anyway if someone would like this, contact me and we can see what we can do. I do not have the puller but I used to push it out with a cleaning rod. 16 gauge, $100 shipped CONUS

[Richard LaMendola]

Sent you a PM

[edgarspencer]

Lothar Walther makes these for common metric rifle calibers, to shoot .22LR.
I've never shot (at) a target big enough in my back yard to figure where it shoots.

[John Campbell]

I believe William Anson patented a similar device in the mid 1880s.