A buddy of mine is a handy-man, he was cleaning out a barn and found a box of old reloading stuff and odd lot shot-shells. With much appreciation, that box found its way to my shop. I've not seen these before. One is entirely made of see through plastic, headstamped "Wanda"- these were made from 1967 to about 1971 when they went out of business, shotshells with a rainbow of colors- ah, those crazy '60's..... The other it a Remington that looks like a factory load of plastic BB's.
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I am not sure, but the red one looks like a dummy training round. Does it have a live primer?
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The Wanda is a live round. They do look a little strange. IIRC I have a box of them somewhere in my stuff.Originally Posted by Sasquatch-1
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The "Wanda" was an interesting shotgun shell made out of plastic,which was was something new back then. The loaded box of shells was more expensive than the run-of-the-mill paper shells.
When fired the shell was no longer transparent due to the powder heat and friction. A roll crimp was needed for the OTS wad which was going the way of the Do-Do-bird.
It was interesting and now rare.
Remington made a riot round for the Police loaded with plastic/nylon bb's
I have a Wanda 12 gauge shell somewhere around here.
The Activ plastic coated shotshells of the 1980s were way better.
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I was an "Active" shotshell representative in the 80's and fired thousands of them in competition. I still have and shoot several hundred of the shells to this day.
Activs are great! Obviously it has been a while, but remember my father coming home with the cab of his truck packed full of them. K-Mart had them on close out. Until I posted this, I'd forgotten that they came in a box of 20- never popular with the trap crowd.
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I cannot not see that Kmart sticker, I remember Kmart well , blue light special on winchester 1200
The sticker made me cry.
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Now you got me stumped. I've never seen a 20 round box,must have been some sort of promotion for hunters?
All of my boxes are 25 rounds.
The 20 gauge shells also came in camo 20 round boxes if I remember right.
I had some 16 gauge Activs that were labeled "Red Hornets" also.
My brother had an Ithaca 37 12 gauge that had a tight magazine opening in the reciever. Our reloaded AA shells were sometimes a tight fit- but Activs slid right through.
I miss them.
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Farmbif, do you remember the full page ad for the 1200 when they came out? Had one clamped in a bench vise muzzle angled up. The ad read: “Machined Gun”.
Mine set me back $69.00 at Sears.
Federal had 20 rd boxes a few years back, camo.
I have a bunch of Plastic Airsoft BB's left over from powder coating. I now see a viable use for them. I have to load some up with very reduced powder charges and see how they work?
I'm thinking 3-500 fps? I wonder how fast they can run before they go willy nilly. All suggestions welcome!.
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The plastic "BB" round was called a MODI-PAK. My spelling may be off - it's been awhile. They were crowd control rounds designed to be fired at the feet of rioters. Primarily for use in prison riots.
I have a stash of Herters shells that were Wanda clones only they were blue in color.
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The 20ga shells were green. My Dad had one from the only box He ever bought. The rims chipped feeding thru His Model 12 20ga on a Dove hunt.
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I reloaded a bunch of the Activ 12 gauge hulls back in the 80's for the trap range. I really like them and preferred them over the Winchester hulls. They fed slick as a whistle thru my 870 pump. my experience anyway, james
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