To those of us with some years on us, nothing smells better than a freshly fired Federal paper. When I started trap shooting back in the 1960s at the old Seattle Skeet & Trap Cub at Redmond, WA, the fields would be littered with once fired Winchester, Western, Remington & Peters hulls, but if a Federal was on the ground it had burned through pin holes from being reloaded three or four times. The load most popular was 23-grains of Red Dot, a nitro card, two Alcan Felton Blue Streak wads pushing 1 1/8-ounce of shot.
