Shotshells: Any Idea As To How Old These Are?

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Shotshells: Any Idea As To How Old These Are?

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Pick this box up at a local gun show for $10.00

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There should be a date code on the box, but I believe that they date late '40s to mid '50s.
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There is something about those old paper shells that stir the soul a bit. I'm thinking late 40's-early 50's?
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If there is no zip code in the address on the box, it will be at least pre-1965.
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There's your date code. ALA?, week 6 of 1946.
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C. Cash wrote:There is something about those old paper shells that stir the soul a bit. I'm thinking late 40's-early 50's?
I feel the same when it comes to vintage ammo.
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Mike D. wrote:Image
There's your date code. ALA?, week 6 of 1946.

Good job Mike, I had a feeling those numbers may have been date related. Thanks
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Great info. I've got a bunch of those yellow boxes.

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I'd have never guessed 1940s - late 50s or early 60s was where my thoughts were headed. Amazing condition. Can we see a head stamp?

Nice find!

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Older than me! :wink:
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I have several boxes like these with red paper shells that are from the early sixties. My guess is 1950's. I shoot mine on occasion just to hear them go BANG!
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