I am not sure how many do what I do, but I regularly hit the gun shows and look for SXS guns. Rarely find great guns but a few have come along. To keep things intreasting I look for paper shells to shoot, not to collect.
Usually find a box or two under $10.00 seems like a fair price for good vintage shells. I shoot a lot of RST's but really like to hunt with these vintage shells. Today I found a guy selling shells. I mentioned I like to shoot paper shells. He told me he had a lot of paper, but many were shells he had for years, none were reloaded, but were loose ( No Boxes). Spent an hour sorting through 4 large Ammo boxes. High graded the shells, did not take any that showed any signs of corrosion. Sold them to me for 16 cents each. Endeed up buying 500 12, 16, and 20 gauge shells. Bought about half of what he had as I did not want anything larger the 6's. After I got home I thought I should have bought the larger shot at that price, just not much besides coyotes to shoot with them. Now the fun begins, sorting them all out. Something about these old
roll crimped shells with the info on the cardboard insert that is classy.
Paper shells
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