Parker 3 inch guns

[Researcher]

The Western Cartridge Co. Super-X (progressive burning powder, high-velocity) 12-gauge 1 1/4 ounce and the 20-gauge 1 ounce loads were introduced in 1922, put up in their 2 3/4 inch FIELD shell --

Earliest Super-X Brochure, 12- & 20-gauges.jpg

Early Super-X 12-ga box, Super Excellant.jpg

Early Super-X 20-gauge box, Super Excellant.jpg

The 1 1/8 ounce 16-gauge Super-X load followed later that year or early 1923, but put up in their 2 9/16 inch FIELD shell.

The 12-gauge 3-inch Super-X load of 1 3/8 ounce of shot, put up in Western's 3-inch RECORD case finally hit the market in the 1924-5 time frame --

To Owners of Super Fox Guns notice slip.jpg

Early 12-gauge RECORD Super-X 3-inch.jpg

Super-X loads with the Lubaloy (copperized) shot first appear in the February 1, 1929, Western Ammunition for Rifle, Revolver and Shotgun.

Early 12-gauge Super-X Lubaloy load side.jpg

[Researcher]

Those Lubaloy loads were mighty spendy. The list price of the RECORD 3-inch Super-X load with 1 3/8 ounce of chilled shot was $68.50 per thousand.

Lubaloy Shot Folder 5-30 page 5.jpg

For 1931, Western Cartridge Co. began loading all their smokeless powder shotgun shells with non-corrosive primers.

By 1933, Western Cartridge Co. was advertising their Seal-Tite wad in the Super-X loads --

Seal-Tite Wad.JPG

The Super-X loads continued to evolve. To my mind, the Super-X came of age, shortly after I was born, when they got the Super-Seal Cup Wad and the Super-Seal Crimp --

1948 Super-Seal Cup Wads ad.jpg