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so I just bought a crap ton of old once fired 12 gauge paper hulls. About 1000 are Federals which I know about. Most are Western or Winchester Super target (which I assume are the same hull) supposedly from the Grand back in the 60's. Then there are some Remington Shure Shot and Canuck Trap & Grand marked Hulls too.
The questions are...
can I use Federal Paper data for these assuming low pressure?
Do they all take 209 primers or do I need old 109 Remington primers?
I think I have about 7000 total
Thanks

Ooooh that smell. Nothing like it. It takes me back to my youth

Jimmy, those that like them do so for the same reason we like double guns, SXS. Nothing practical; just adherence to tradition. Gil

Jimmy W,

IT IS THE SMELL

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.

This is why!
Karl