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Does any one know when paper cases where generaly superseeded by plastic cases .
As my house was built in 1965 and it has a ditch at the bottom of the garden which now backs onto allotments , since I moved in last May 2010 I have been cleaning out rubbish , soil and compost which had built up in the last 46 years , as the previous owner who lived there since it was built used the ditch as rubbish tip .
Any way I found a case the other day in the soil the metal was corroded so not able to read the head stamp but it did contain the remnants of the paper case , so its possible it was dropped pre 65 by someone out shooting when the area was farmland , now Iam a few hundred yards from the fields ,
I started shooting shotguns back in 1980 or just before and never fired a paper cased cart .
Any ideas

Dave

Remington introduced plastic shotshells in 1960. Federal made the transition from paper to plastic in 1965. So I'd say you're looking at the 1960s - but of course old ammunition would have been kicking about for a while after that.

I can remember using paper cased Ely Grand Prix in the mid 70s there were plenty of them about as well

...and in the early 80's it was Baikal cartridges, I quite liked the flame that exited the barrels...