My Latest Vintage Shotshell Acquisition.

[Mike Stahle]

Any idea as to the age’s of these boxes of shotshells?
I’m thinking 70’s

[Duckman]

I would agree with that 70's guess. I used to buy AAs in those boxes back then, in fact still have some. The brass had a big WW on the head. I still load some. I remember the AA handicap loads that were in black hulls with silver lettering as well. I have some 20ga AAs with red lettering from awhile back as well.

[Richard Flanders]

I have several boxes of paper AA's in boxes like that.

[TARNATION !!!]

Oh my goodness. Now the '70s is vintage

[Autumn Daze]

I know Jack...I know....Pretty scary huh?

[Dean Romig]

And cars made in the early '80's are considered "antiques"

....what am I laughing about??

[J.B. Books]

The White and Red AA Box was definitely available through the late 80's, maybe into early 90's. I think they changed from that design around the same time they made the first of the "Silver Bullets" the 25th anniversary AA shells.

[Researcher]

Richard,

I have several boxes of paper AA's in boxes like that.

What are you talking about. The Winchester/Western AA was introduced as a compression formed plastic shell with a one-piece plastic wad in 1965. Winchester/Western introduced their compression formed hull with Mark 5 wadding in 1964 --



The AA was introduced in 1965 in 12-gauge trap loads and 12- and 20-gauge Skeet loads --



In the early years the Winchester branded AAs came in a white box with the AA logo in red and the Western branded AAs came in the white box with the AA logo in yellow.

1970 saw the introduction of the .410-bore AA shell and the 28-gauge AA was introduced in May 1971. The AA was still marketted under both of Olin's ammunition company names. For 1972 they added the black Handicap Trap AAs. In 1975 Olin began easing away from the two seperate ammunition lines and the white boxes began being marked Winchester-Western and the AA logo was red.



That same year they dropped the Super Speed heavy loads and both Winchester and Western branded heavy hunting loads were called Super-X. Oh the shame of it!!!

[Mike Stahle]

Tensile strength to 35,000 psi
Perfect for twist and Damascus barrels, heck
you don't even need a Barrel...

[Mike Stahle]

Ooops! Now I did it. I used the P word with the D & T words = “silence”