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I remember the “real”, 20-box cases well. What they call cases now are what we used to call flats. Flats only had 10 boxes. Usually we all carried a flat i to the field to start with. Been on many dove hunts that we’d burn thru nearly a case - and we could shoot pretty good too! I used to burn thru over 2 cases during duck season - thats what actually got me started reloading ! Those were the days and great times too…
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Paper bulls were a little before my time (59-yrs old). I'm 58 and I remember shooting a blue million paper hull Winchester XX low brass. Some of those were reloads though. I was thinking back - I believe when I got my .410 (I was 8), the first shells I had were paper. It’s been so long I am not sure. Now I have seen a lot of paper hulls, my great-uncle had a 10-gauge that as best I can recall only had paper hulls.
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We went the other way. The local country store sold them loose. We’d pick up returnable bottles and take other change there, where we could buy .22s for $.02 and 12 ga. 6’s for $.04 each. We’d buy a handful of each and have our ammo for the weekend. We did a lot more small game hunting back then because deer were few and far between.
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$20 for a case. 500 shells for 20 bucks.
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10 point
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I remember buying my first box of 22 shorts at the Western Auto in Jay. 37 cents and no one asked for my ID.
Grandma said...Always keep a gun close at hand, you just never know when you might run across some varmint that needs killing...
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Talking Turkey
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Yep. Those cases made a good seat on a dove field.
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