Arloe
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I've been reading bits on this forum for quite some time, and decided to join. I will be posting some new information to an 8-year-old thread on early UMC primers. Better late to the party than never.
My collecting parameter is pre-war American upland shotshells. This allows me to include many essential things related to shotgunning--cleaning gadgets, shell boxes, advertisements (upland related only), vintage shotshell reloading implements and components, and so forth. Limitations for shotshells themselves are twofold--no size larger than #4 and no gauge larger than 12. The parameter also forces me to pass on most things, which immeasurably enhances marital bliss.
The only singles on which I concentrate are those with self-expanding shot columns--known as "Scatter Loads" (the genericized trademark, from Remington-UMC self-expanders). They go by many other names, depending on the company that made them--Brush, Close Range, Thicket, Bush, and Open, to name a few.
I don't hunt upland birds any more, but do shoot clay targets. I shoot in a summer trap league and I suck at it. I also shoot .410 in the Kansas prairie winds (Winchester M37 single shot 28", full choke, of course) from a blind wobble trap (yes, I suck at those, too, but they are so much fun). I'm a retired college teacher and have lived in NW Kansas for the past decade.
My collecting parameter is pre-war American upland shotshells. This allows me to include many essential things related to shotgunning--cleaning gadgets, shell boxes, advertisements (upland related only), vintage shotshell reloading implements and components, and so forth. Limitations for shotshells themselves are twofold--no size larger than #4 and no gauge larger than 12. The parameter also forces me to pass on most things, which immeasurably enhances marital bliss.
The only singles on which I concentrate are those with self-expanding shot columns--known as "Scatter Loads" (the genericized trademark, from Remington-UMC self-expanders). They go by many other names, depending on the company that made them--Brush, Close Range, Thicket, Bush, and Open, to name a few.
I don't hunt upland birds any more, but do shoot clay targets. I shoot in a summer trap league and I suck at it. I also shoot .410 in the Kansas prairie winds (Winchester M37 single shot 28", full choke, of course) from a blind wobble trap (yes, I suck at those, too, but they are so much fun). I'm a retired college teacher and have lived in NW Kansas for the past decade.
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