|
|
06-13-2017, 08:25 PM
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: NE Texas
Posts: 979
Likes: 2,072
Liked 4,664 Times in 652 Posts
|
|
Vintage Shotgun Shells
Can anyone here date these? They're 2 1/2-1-6.
|
06-13-2017, 10:07 PM
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Harlem, Ohio
Posts: 14,354
Likes: 23,195
Liked 26,154 Times in 9,068 Posts
|
|
Alcan was a joint project between S&W and Fiocchi. I've never seen their shot shells! But I would GUESS 1970's.
Ivan
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
06-13-2017, 10:15 PM
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Iowa
Posts: 902
Likes: 2,754
Liked 1,036 Times in 443 Posts
|
|
I started getting them in the late 60's
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
06-13-2017, 10:48 PM
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Denver area
Posts: 6,221
Likes: 20,240
Liked 13,057 Times in 4,157 Posts
|
|
I used Alcan shotshell wads reloading 20 ga in 1964 with my Lee loader.
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
06-14-2017, 12:48 AM
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 7,726
Likes: 1,633
Liked 9,093 Times in 3,364 Posts
|
|
Alcan (E Alton,Illinois) Made shotshells starting in 1951. Also made reloading components, wads, primers empty hulls, ect. They imported smokeless powder and marketed it under their name and a simple number system attached to it.
I still have a good supply of Alcan #5 and #8 that I load occasionally with older data still available.
The short 2 1/2" 16ga shells are probably from the early days production till the early 60's when standard 2 3/4" 16ga loads and chamberings pretty much were the norm in commercial off the rack offerings.
2 3/4" 16ga shells were the USA industry standard earlier on but foreign guns with the shorter chamberings and older US guns still in use kept a demand for the 2 1/2 and 2 9/16" length 16ga shells for quite a while.
'Short 16's' are still commercially loaded in the US by RST and others that cater to the vintage shotgun shooter market. They generally use Cheddite hulls & primers.
|
The Following 2 Users Like Post:
|
|
06-14-2017, 01:00 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: South Texas & San Antonio
Posts: 33,480
Likes: 236
Liked 28,940 Times in 14,012 Posts
|
|
I'd say your box is from around the mid-1960s. I have one box of 12 Ga. which is identical, but in a little better condition.
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
06-14-2017, 07:12 AM
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Mountains of Colorado
Posts: 2,806
Likes: 2,428
Liked 6,618 Times in 1,830 Posts
|
|
After 1962 as it has a child warning on the box which was standard after that year.
|
The Following 3 Users Like Post:
|
|
|
Thread Tools |
|
Display Modes |
Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
|
|
|
|
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 01:42 PM.