paper shotshells and good memories

[tookalisten]

My FIL passed away a few years ago and my wife and her sister have been going through his things. He was a quail hunter and I had the privilege of walking many miles with him and his various bird dogs. Lots of fond memories.

Yesterday, my wife brought home several boxes of shotgun shells and gave to me. One of which was a full box of these. I was thrilled to have this old box and they are full of paper cased shells. Brought back a lot of great memories of a fine bird hunting gentleman.

 

[john guedry]

Been along time since Sears sold any kind of shotgun shells not just paper.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

There is absolutely nothing like the smell of a just-fired paper shotshell on a frosty morning over a good dog . . .

Thanks for the memory.

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

[Mobuck]

Fifty years ago, I bought my 20 ga shells at the Western Auto. This reminded me of picking up the empty and snorting the wonderful odor. I shot lots of rabbits with Dad's old Model 17 Remington. Every Sunday afternoon no matter how cold, a friend and I went rabbit hunting around the brush piles and along the old RR track. I couldn't buy another box until I was down to 5 shells but I have to admit to stashing a few so I could get a fresh box and not run out the next Sunday.

 

[cadillo]

When I was a kid, the Old man would buy our light field load shell for dove shooting at Sears for $2.00 per box, or some times less. The headstamp and box both said Sears, but otherwise, they sure appeared to have been made by Federal. Few things in life smell as good as a fired paper hull 12 gauge shell.

 

[bobski]

federal still makes them. 8)

 

[RugerHound]

There is absolutely nothing like the smell of a just-fired paper shotshell on a frosty morning over a good dog . . .

Thanks for the memory.

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

That's a fact!

 

[Pierow]

Really enjoying how many of you are describing your love for this smell. Without ever having done so I know exactly what the smell of a paper shotgun shell is like after you shoot it.

Some fireworks display companies use cardboard guns for three-inch shells and smaller. Larger caliber shells are shot with either H.D.P.E., fiberglass or sometimes steel guns. Anyhow, the wonderful wafting odor from those three-inch finale guns is something else after a show. Just imagine what the smell would be like if you shot a three-inch shotgun shell then multiply by a few hundred.

Expended gun powder and paper / cardboard combine for a great smell just as pizza and cardboard do. I think it is the reason pizza never tastes as good as it smells even though it tastes pretty darn good.

Pierow

 

[stevemb]

Add me to the list ! Found a full box of paper hulled 16ga., but sent it to a BIL to display with his old LC Smith. I've some left here without the box, and some 12ga paper hulled rounds at camp. Yrs ago sold a box to a gentleman down south, who wanted them for the memories. Funny how smells stick in a memory so well.

 

[RKB]

Federal Gold Medal paper trap loads smell pretty durn close. Just shoot one early on a frosty morning, smell it, and take a walk down memory lane.

 

[tom black]

About 5 miles from I where grew up was a small country store. We could go in there and buy any part of a box of shotgun shells we wanted. A box of 22 LR's were .49 cents. Some of my favorite smells are Hoppe's #9, new leather, wet dog fur, wood smoke and like several have said, it's hard to beat the smell of burned shotgun powder on a frosty morning after a covey of quail blasting off beneath your feet, leaves you with jelly legs. And I like the faint woodsy odor of skunk. And there is nothing on earth that smells so much a part of the woods as a squirrel. Just my 2 cents worth.
Tom Black
Cantucky

 

[R1895]

I too grew up on paper shells, putting hundreds through an old Iver Johnson double 12 that had been my grandfather's; the smell is wonderfully intoxicating. I have a large collection of hundreds of them in all the popular gauges and still shoot one now and then. It's true, that wonderful smell definitely takes me back in time.

 

[bobski]

subic bay main gate
jp5 on a flight deck
fresh air at 10,000 ft under a parachute
autumn in the woods
rapid fire on the 300yd line with m14's during a mil.highpower match
a real old pizza parlor
parachute nylon
white gas fumes on a snowmobile
a campfire
the morning after a big snow storm
concessions at a state fair
fresh cut fire wood
a hemlock forest

 

[Bob Wright]

There is absolutely nothing like the smell of a just-fired paper shotshell on a frosty morning over a good dog . . .

Thanks for the memory.

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Know the sensation!

Bob Wright