8-gauge Ammunition

[Craig Larter]

Here's the 8ga box I would like to find one day.

[Researcher]

In the first years of the 20th Century Union Metallic Cartridge Co. had two high brass shells, TRAP with the flat base wad for bulk smokeless powders and ARROW with a high base wad for dense smokeless powders. For 1905 UMC began offering an ARROW shell for bulk smokeless, but the 8-gauge loads were still in the TRAP shell --

TRAP 8-gauge, bulk smokeless powder,1905.png

The EXPERT was the NPE equivalent to the loaded TRAP shell --

8-gauge EXPERT shell.png

By the 1907 UMC catalog the TRAP shell is gone. While the TRAP shell is in the 1906 catalog, the pages are X'ed out in the copy I have access to.

[Researcher]

The only 8-gauge box of ARROW shells from the Remington Arms - Union Metallic Cartridge Co. era (1911-16) I've gotten pictures of has the Rem-UMC over ARROW head-stamp and the REMINGTON-UMC canular at the top of the brass --

ARROW 8-Gauge 01 Remington Arms - Union Metallic Cartridge Co..jpg

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The only 8-gauge shell in my collection is of this type. I was a teenager when while visiting Minnesota my uncle took me to the old "Stagecoach" restaurant/gun museum/gun shop and they were selling individual shells out of a box of 8-gauges.

ARROW 8-gauge shell side.jpeg

ARROW 8-gauge shell headstamp.jpeg

ARROW 8-gauge shell top wad.jpeg

Some years ago one of the Lein boys was selling a dozen loaded and ten empty 8-gauge shells stamped KLEANBORE on the sides. KLEANBORE priming was introduced to Remington shotshells in the 1931-2 time frame --

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