Why Do I Keep These?

[Montana Jim]

Why do I keep these?

I realize they are old shot shell bases, I know a lot of you have found them too, my hunting buddy just tosses them into the trash. I even have seen a few web sites devoted to identifying the headstamps!

Are they valuable?
Are they collectable?
Do they hold a historical significance?
Are some of them extreamly rare?

Do you keep the old shot shell bases you find? Tell me why you DO or DON'T keep them!

 

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[jeff of pa]

Same reason I do I guess.

Gotta keep Some of Everything I find

 

[Leon]

lol,, Good question Jim,,,
I have often wondered that myself... I keep the ones that look old, or unusual, but toss most of the ones I think are modern. I'm sure some of them are probably rare, and very collectable, but I haven't a clue as to which ones to hold on to... I think we're going to need more junk boxes, coffee cans, and long forgotten junk drawers...
Good luck, & Happy hunting~

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

MJ,

why do I have a bunch here, a bunch
there, and who knows where.

Why do I keep them. Someday...........
......................................................

Someday I'm going to get them all together.

Someday I'm going to clean them all up.

Someday I'm going to get a good I.D. on all
of them.

Why do I keep them. Cannot really tell you
until someday.

have a good un..........
SHERMANVILLE

 

[Montana Jim]

I kinda like the clock thing!

 

[relic lover]

I keep um, I hunt mostly woods they are one thing you can date so I save them and research them in the winter just for kicks the wife thinks I am a total geek.

 

[Night Stalker]

LOL Jim! I wouldn't care to bet that everyone here at Treasure Net has at least one of those things in their collection. I keep mine because of the work I put into the recovery.

I found an old .10 guage once and a few .16 guage. I toss them in the box.....

HH/NS

 

[hollowpointred]

i got a whole box of old rusty crap that i hold onto. i have no idea why! i guess i just cant help myself!

 

[SC_hunter]

Haha...I keep pop tabs and they sure aren't rare...Think what NS says...the time it took to find em...btw..someone left a website on here to help identify those shells. http://members.shaw.ca/cartridge-corner/shotgun.htm
Just in case you wanna look at it. HH

 

[Montana Jim]

Haha...I keep pop tabs and they sure aren't rare...Think what NS says...the time it took to find em...btw..someone left a website on here to help identify those shells. http://members.shaw.ca/cartridge-corner/shotgun.htm
Just in case you wanna look at it. HH

LMAO! Yea... not only do I have a bunch a shell bases, but I also saved that site when I saw it a while back!

 

[silverswede]

They really help me date the site. Compare brand to the dates they were manufactured and assuming they were dropped (fired and ejected) there you've got a pretty accurate date.

 

[WV Hillbilly]

Md's are hopeless packrats .

 

[River Rat]

I only have 2...Winchester 1901 No. 10 (still has cardboard intact) and Winchester Leader No. 12 and I hope to find more. I've been doing a extensive history of our property and these 2 items hold historical value to me.

RR

 

[willie d]

Md's are hopeless packrats .

Very true, but I was a packrat before I was a THer. Dug up items, just one more class of items to infuriate the wife. I keep them because it combines my love for MDing and guns.

 

[swingman]

The early shotgun shells were made entirely of metal - not sure of the age, but Remington, etc. might be able to tell you. I've found 2 of these in 8+ years of detecting.

 

[NorCal 6er]

I must have 10 or 20 or ?? , anyway like Shermanville said

"Someday"

HH
Joe

 

[privet12]

And hey most of them are brass and brass is worth money. Of course you would have to have a barrel of them but what the heck what else you got to do just bring them home and throw them in a box.

 

[stoney56]

A friend found a use for some of them. He popped the fired primers out of them and used brass screws in the holes to make drawer pulls for his gun cabinet.

 

[Charlene]

Well at least now I have some ideas as to what to do with mine, I like the clock and drawer handle ideas. Thanks guys!