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pete the box is worth more than that would make a fine display item....charlie
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thanks for the infofellas...itmust have been awhile since alcan made any 8 ga wads... charlie
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I think it's been awhile since Alcan made anything.
Dad used to get up an order for everybody in the family before hunting season and drive to Alton picking up from the factory to get a better price. I've still got a few boxes that folks in the family had laying around. There's a box of Alcan factory loaded magnum 10 gauge on Gunbroker, he's had them listed several times. At $100 I think I'll pass but they sure are nice. Destry
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alton and other makers of gun stuff would have been my kinda folks if they were still around wonder what happened to alton company....kinda wish i had been born a little earlier where i could have seen the double gun and her fellow companys in there heydays...would liked to have ordered a keg of deadshot powder and all the other wonderful things of an era gone by...
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dont know why but that box of alton 8 ga wads keep poping up in my mind..wish somebody go buy them things were i could think about something else...thats gotta be a pretty old box.... charlie
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I picked up some of those babies, I think they came with a gun I bought a while back. I would rather use the plastic wads but the .135 can be used as over shot wads I guess. I wonder who Alcan sold them to?
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Charlie the cards were fine but the box was in tough shape, missing a top flap, tattered and a little bit moldy. I thought 8ga reloading components were fairly scarce and somebody might have wanted them to use.
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