How old is this ?

[C-dubb]

Was cleaning up my reloading room and came crossed this 3/4 full box of 20 gauge shells. Was just wondering if anyone knew how old these "new plastic" shells are.

[Der Gebirgsjager]

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I bought this box in 1966.

DG

[C-dubb]

over 50 years ! Still not older than me

[C-dubb]

My box may be a little older because it says "new" plastic shells and yours doesn't .

[Conditor22]

Cut one in half and count the rings

[Winger Ed.]

Cut one in half and count the rings

My Grandma would say, "Oh, now that's just tacky, tacky, tacky".

[CastingFool]

Cut one in half and count the rings

This is the best answer!

[Markopolo]

[Guesser]

1957 when Remington introduced plastic, at least that was what I got when I bought for the opening of pheasant season that year. Had never seen plastic till then.

[Rattlesnake Charlie]

Remington started using plastic hulls in 1960. Yours is not much newer.

[desi23]

The OP's box has the "child warning" which first appeared in 1962 so it can't be any earlier than that. Not sure when they stopped proclaiming plastic hulls as the "new" thing but would guess not too long after that as paper hulls were phased out from most makers lines.

[C-dubb]

Thanks guys, Seems the shells are almost as old as me so I imagine that they came from my Grandfather. He hunted pheasant with an old Spanish built double 20 that I inherited years ago.

[NyFirefighter357]

I have a few boxes like them. I use them, they all go bang!

[ShooterAZ]

Same here, I have some of those old plastic Remington shells, probably from the 1960's. I also have several old boxes of 12GA paper hulled shells that I got when my Grandfather passed in 1977. They all still go bang, and I truly love the smell of those ejected shells. It reminds me of when I was a kid going out shooting with my Grampa.