DWalt
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I related a similar story earlier. Back in my kid-hood (early-mid 1950s), we didn't have any supermarkets in my part of the world. What we did have was a multitude of small neighborhood grocery/general stores, most often run by older married couples (mom & pop). In my smallish rural Ohio town, there were at least a dozen of them, maybe more, and most of them carried a very limited stock of .22 ammunition and shotgun shells. Some of them would sell shotshells individually, maybe a nickel or dime each. A slightly unusual thing was that it was nearly always Federal ammunition, although I do remember one store which carried Remington. It's a fact that Federal's early marketing program was built upon sales of .22 ammunition and shotshells through those small m&p stores, gas stations, etc. (and also making house brand ammo for the chain stores, such as Sears and Montgomery Wards). As I earlier said, the going price for .22 Shorts then was a quarter a box (LRs were 40 cents), and I shot a ton of them. I never felt particularly undergunned, as those Shorts worked fine for everything I hunted, mainly squirrels, rabbits and even ducks (sitting ducks). My favorite time was early in the year when we always had flooding, and the rising water would drive rats and snakes out of the river bottom cornfields. It wasn't much of a trick to kill all the rats you wanted until you got tired of shooting. The .22 Shorts worked great on them.
Regarding the frangible bullet .22 Short gallery cartridges, they were for a time sold commercially at gun and sporting goods stores to anyone. At least by Remington. They were sold in a small 28 round (4 rows of 7) flat pack tray with a cellophane wrapper under the name of "Remington Rocket", and also under the Peters name, but I don't remember what name Peters used. I bought several packs of them, but didn't see much point in using them when regular .22 Shorts were much cheaper. They didn't last long.
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