splitting of shotgun shell brass

I'm gonna recomend that you not shoot em. Fresh ammo can be bought at Wallmart for under $3.00 a box.

Chris142 said:

I'm gonna recomend that you not shoot em. Fresh ammo can be bought at Wallmart for under $3.00 a box.

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thanks and i won't, what do you do to dispose of them? what would cause this? thanks for the Re:

That would be cool to have those old shells. Don't shoot'em send'em to me :wink:

Check around the web and see if they'll fetch any $$ from a shell collector. If you get a ton of money for 'em, I want a decent double--possibly Ithaca Fluesie, other decent Ithaca, or maybe a Winne model 24. You just never know

if u have the boxes 4 the shells and r in good shape . they will fetch a few bucks from a colletor . or u can sell the empty boxes on ebay. good luck

There was a story a while back of some guy shooting shells that had split. When he fired them he and the gun blew up!

When I deal with guns I always take the safe route. You were smart to stop shooting them.

Good luck and happy shooting!

I had about a dozen boxes of old AA's left over from dove hunting back in mid 80's.Forgot they were in the closet.Figure I would just shoot um up at skeet range.Got a nasty surprise when I opened the boxes.Rough guess is about 10 percent of the ammo was split.The brass had either a verticle split or a had peeled off the bottom of base.Did not shoot any,just disposed of them.

Hey thanks for all the feed back guys, I happened to be out hunting last nite and I shot up six or so of the old shells with no adverse consequences. I happened to be curious so I was looking at the spent shells and I squeezed them they are very thin compared to some other newer brass that I could not bend with my fingers. Anyhow I didn't have any luck deer hunting but this morning my landlord who is my neighbor woke me up to come harvest a nice 3 by 4 buck, I didn't try my luck with a shotgun slug I used my winchester model 94 32 special lever action bush buster rifle the bucky is in the cooler chillin. He was a nice blacktail probably 140 or undressed.

Why don't you post about your shells on the site below, we need more post's there and you may find out if there any good.

http://pub77.ezboard.com/bcartridgecollecting

wow can't believe the response on my topic hello Irish 9 I just mailed a steering column to australia . Im here in southern oregon I work at a used car parts yard. Thanks for the info I will register with that site . And I believe these shells are thinner than later types they split after shooting so I just throw them away.