Oldies but goodies ammo edition

[Snowwolfe]

Cool find
Interesting....$5 in 1970 is roughly $40 today due to inflation

 

[LeftyWilbury]

my employer went in on an estate sale, local pawn shop got all the guns, we got all the ammo and accessories. most has gone away by now, should have taken more pics. if you're gonna hoard, guns and ammo are the way to go!

 

[wyogoat]

my employer went in on an estate sale, local pawn shop got all the guns, we got all the ammo and accessories. most has gone away by now, should have taken more pics. if you're gonna hoard, guns and ammo are the way to go!
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The exploding bullets are pretty wild. Have a 30-30 you’re willing to test one out in!?

 

[Sinistram]

Even back then California sucked!

I have seen a slight trend of ammo makers to lean back towards the olde tyme ammo boxes and away from the shiny, flashy modern stuff. Winchester's rifle ammo is a key example of this. Whomever decided to put those beautiful images of deer and other animals on the box deserves a promotion! A few years back, Federal redid their regular game load shotgun shells to the old blue and white boxes with the red stripe. Those were before my time originally, but it's nice to see the retro look.

 

[Davyalabama]

I wish I knew how to post a picture, have some old paper hull shotgun shells. You folks like me remember those things swelling in a duck blind?

 

[KenLee]

Very fast, in my rifles the term “groups” had to be applied loosely.

If you needed to hit side of the barn, you'd better shoot from inside the barn

 

[cnelk]

An old REM UMC 45-90 cartridge

 

[cnelk]

An old 25-36 Marlin cartridge

 

[cnelk]

An old 32-40 Winchester cartridge

 

[NRA4LIFE]

In some cases, the empty boxes can be worth something.

 

[cnelk]

An old 351 Winchester cartridge

 

[cnelk]

Maybe someone can help with this one?
It say 22 H.P.

 

[HOT ROD]

22 High power Savage chambered it in the model 99 i think...

 

[TSAMP]

 

[Phaseolus]

If you needed to hit side of the barn, you'd better shoot from inside the barn

They were quite spectacular if you managed to hit a prairie dog with one.

 

[realunlucky]

Super speed .219 zipper - sounds like maybe the parent case was 30-30. Rifle was a lever action unfortunately lost in a fire just a handful of spent cases remain.

My dad's first rifle was a 30-40 Krag straight military surplus. Might get to take it out for Utahs new open sight rifle season

 

[mtnwrunner]

I'm all over vintage......

Randy

 

[JEck]

Bought 13 loaded boxes of the 22-250 ammo from an older gentleman a few years ago for $10/box mainly for the brass…it still shoots like it should though. Shotgun shell boxes have been accumulated over the years.

 

[OMF]

Cool thread - interesting stuff. I'm going to have to check my ammo storage to see what I have left. I used to dumpster dive for old ammo boxes at various ranges. I found mostly shotgun shell boxes, sometimes still with shells. Unfortunately many were stolen and/or damaged during a move.