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In the little, tiny, backwater of Mpls/St. Paul you can't normally find 28 gauge ammunition. The usual suspects will have a box or two of something, but, you can usually count on one or both of them being on the order of 1oz loads of steel 4s or something else just as useless.
I ran out of 16 gauge ammunition in South Dakota one time. I was all done with that gun until I cleaned it when I got home.
Where, I had plenty of 16 gauge ammunition.
Oh well.
Best,
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People laugh at the amount of ammo and loading components I have on hand but I have never run out of shells on a hunting trip or other shooting outing. Others have and most are very happy to borrow a few boxes in their hour of need. Relying on finding shells local to where I hunt is a loosing propisition.
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If today its so tough what was it like back in the 1800's?
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In the little, tiny, backwater of Mpls/St. Paul you can't normally find 28 gauge ammunition. The usual suspects will have a box or two of something, but, you can usually count on one or both of them being on the order of 1oz loads of steel 4s or something else just as useless.
I ran out of 16 gauge ammunition in South Dakota one time. I was all done with that gun until I cleaned it when I got home.
Where, I had plenty of 16 gauge ammunition.
Oh well.
Best,
Ted I'd be surprised if Cabela's in Rogers (and maybe the one in Woodbury) don't have both 16 and 28ga shells.
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Shocked to hear that about the Cities, Ted. This is easy ammo to find in Denver. Did find some steel 6s, but that's it so-far. Thank goodness for that 37.
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My grandfather ordered his shells by the case well before the season. He favored 3's and 5's and 7 1/2's. If he had a good year he would order one 3, two 5 and three or four 7 1/2 he told me. If it was a lean year he might have to make due with what carried over, adding a few from the local hardware stores inventory. They came in by rail freight which is ironic because they would ship up a few ducks back on the same railway.
Back in those days the hardware store would break open a box and sell by the shell. Farmers might buy five shells to take a boy hunting. No need to spend too much money on shells for a boy. Times were different and money was tight. My grandmother brought in eggs to the A&P stroe, my aunt brought in butter and either took store credit or got paid cash end of the month by the store. Might have been 12 cents store credit per dozen or 10 cents cash. Again money was tight and there was a fairly active barter system still going on. Most things about the good old days are long forgotten, like long hard days of hard labor and very little cash.
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You got it. The good old days weren't all that much, socially. I grew up in circumstances you mentioned. Looking back just 50-60 years, many things were grim.
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I had an argument with a man in a hardware store in Laredo, Texas when I ran out of 28 ga ammo that there wasn't such a thing, that I actually wanted 20 ga.
I learned to take enough ammo the next time
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My grandfather ordered his shells by the case well before the season. He favored 3's and 5's and 7 1/2's. If he had a good year he would order one 3, two 5 and three or four 7 1/2 he told me. If it was a lean year he might have to make due with what carried over, adding a few from the local hardware stores inventory. They came on by rail freight which is ironic because they would shop up a few ducks back on the same railway.
Back in those days the hardware store would break open a box and sell by the shell. Farmers might buy five shells to take a boy hunting. No need to spend too much money on shells for a boy. Times were different and money was tight. My grandmother brought in eggs to the A&P stroe, my aunt brought in butter and either took store credit or got paid cash end of the month by the store. Might have been 12 cents store credit per dozen or 10 cents cash. Again money was tight and there was a fairly active barter system still going on. Most things about the good old days are long forgotten, like long hard days of hard labor and very little cash.
When I was growing up we usually would buy about 3-4 16 ga shells at a time, which would last me 2-3 weeks. I never shot at anything flying if possible and tried to line up at least two birds at a time.
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When I was growing up we usually would buy about 3-4 16 ga shells at a time, which would last me 2-3 weeks. I never shot at anything flying if possible and tried to line up at least two birds at a time. [/quote]
Looks like we grew up learning to hunt the same way!...Geo
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