Robin Hood
 

I've just recently started collecting Parkers...It got me to thinking about one evening when I was a teenager, I was board so I decided to see if I could shoot some bats flying around my parents place. Dad was not home and the only shells I could find looked old and were marked Robin Hood. I shot about half the box If i remember correctly. I found it odd that they were made out of paper and not plastic. Has anyone ever heard of them or seen a box of them?

Ohh if only i had a time machine so I could go back and kick that dumb teenagers butt. :banghead:

Robin Hood shotshells were made in Vermont. A box sold a couple years back for $1200.

Paper shotshells are readily available from Federal. Their 1 oz 2 3/4dram 12ga makes a nice target load. It would be little cheaper than shooting Robin Hood shells.

The Robin Hood company reps shot Parkers. These photos were posted here a few years ago.

I am not a shotshell collector nor a historian, and I'm sure others know much more than me, but the short answer to your question is "yes".

wow, thanks so much for the photos. I never knew that. I will share that with my Dad.

The 'Robin Hood' name disappeared in 1919. In my 40 years of collecting, I can recall two or three individual specimens for sale. There were a handful of companies in the late 19th century that were 'acquired' by the bigger outfits, like UMC, in the early 20th century. RH was one of, possibly, the very last independent ammunition manufacturer. I collect WRA Co. and UMC shotshells. They are more easy (spelled 'cheaper') to obtain than the short-lived outfits like RH. As Bruce said, Federal still makes paper, along with numerous loadings from RST.

Here you Matt.
http://www.gunauction.com/closed/dis...mnum=5295336.0

Sorry Matt already sold a while back....

Thanks, keep your eye open for any of them.

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Best,

Mike

Hi Bruce.
I never knew Robin Hood used a Parker i thought it was a bow and arrow.
Best Dave.

Wards collectibles has a sale coming up the last two have had a lot of robinhood singles.

the heck with this silly bow and arrow.

you may have to spell collectibles correct to get it to come up or try wards auction.

The British nobility and landed gentry used Purdeys and Hollands. All the other Brits who carried and cleaned their own guns used Parkers.

Best,
Bruce Day, whose ancesters were run out of England years ago, then out of New England. I still need a temporary permit to cross the Mississippi River.