Paper Shotshell Flashback.

[Mike Stahle]

Found these empties not long ago at my local rifle range.
They sure don’t make them like this anymore.
Look at all that brass.

[Austin W Hogan]

Mike; Please lay a ruler beside those paper shells and repeat the picture. Is the blue a Peters and the red a Winchester?

Thanks Austin

[Mike Stahle]

Originally Posted by Austin W Hogan

Mike; Please lay a ruler beside those paper shells and repeat the picture. Is the blue a Peters and the red a Winchester?

Thanks Austin

The blue is indeed a Peters and the red is a Winchester Super Speed.

I will do a picture with a ruler for you

[Mike Stahle]

Paper shotshell lengths.

[Richard Flanders]

Someone wasted those fine shells at a shooting range??!

[Mike Stahle]

Originally Posted by Richard Flanders

Someone wasted those fine shells at a shooting range??!

Yes, go figure
So glad I get curious and like to root through the empties barrel.

[Jeff K.]

I found this shell at the Louisville show in Feb.

[Autumn Daze]

Great find Jeff! I believe they were made in three different colors if memory serves. Pretty rare bird....

[Dean Romig]

Guys, regarding the Parker Bros. paper shells, I know a gentleman in NH (same guy who bought my 28" 16 ga. Trojan) who bought 2 full original boxes of them at a yard sale for $20 each. He will not sell either or both to me. He knows they're very valuable. I think I'll contact him again pretty soon and work on him.
He also knew a farmer who had a graded small bore Parker hammer gun. I asked if the fellow was interested in selling it. He said he thought the fellow probably would sell it and that he would ask him in a couple of days. He called me back a week later and told me the farmer needed some plumbing repaired and the plumber saw the Parker, told the farmer he'd like the Parker as partial payment for $800 worth of plumbing he had done and that's the last of that Parker that I know of.

[Autumn Daze]