Little bit of trivia here: Merwin & Hulbert never made any guns, they were mostly all made by Hopkins & Allen and were so well made to very close tolerances than when you opened the action to extract shells, the gun would close by itself due to the vacuum created by the close tolerances! Also, I've found that many ammo. boxes posted on ebay (eBay rulues will not allow seller to sell ammo.) by sellers, are boxes with ammo that has been removed, but the seller has the ammo. and inquires to the seller can result in the ammo. arriving at your door step with the box for a negotiable price. Ed.