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Posted: 9/18/2010 5:46:06 PM EDT
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Does anyone have a source for these date codes? All I can find is barrel date codes and they don't jive with the shotshells.
My mother found an almost full box of 12ga 0 buckshot that my father had stashed in a drawer sometime in the past. I have no intention of firing these, but I would like to pin down a time period so that I might be able to deduce what shotgun they were purchased for. You see, Daddy never cared for 12ga shotguns and I don't remember him ever owning one. 16ga and 20ga yes, there were several, but no 12ga to the best of my knowledge. And I have no recollection of him ever having hunted deer with a shotgun. It's possible that they might have been my grandfather's, but they are kinda new for that. He hung up his old 12ga double (unsafe) many, many years ago and carried a .410 single around in the truck for most of my memory. I wish they were still around so I could ask them, but both of them have passed on. Such is life. These have plastic hulls ("NEW PLASTIC SHOTGUN SHELLS") so from what little info I've found they date from at least 1960. They're roll crimped. I've tried googling with very limited luck. The boxes are somewhat collectible so there are a few good photos, but no real information and no date codes. The code on this box is: BF20Y18 I would really like to nail down a time frame for these. I'm just taking a WAG and estimating that they're between 40-50 years old. If they were purchased during this time period I would've been pretty young (born in '58) so there could've been a shotgun that I'm not aware of. My intention is to make them a keepsake, even though they're probably perfectly safe to fire and not especially valuable from a monetary standpoint (the box is probably worth more than the shells), so the more I know about them the better. Mainly who bought them, when, and why... 
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I forgot to mention that these do not have the "Power Piston" wads, they still use the old style "H-wad" used in the paper shells.
No, I didn't cut one open, it says "H-wads" on the box. That could be a clue, if I can find the date that the "Power Piston" was introduced it will narrow it down a bit. |
| Remington keeps those dates for quality and liability reasons should an issue come up. However, I doubt they would go back that far on ammo. Calling them would answer the question if such information is even out there anywhere. If Remington does not have it then this could be the needle in the hay stack we all hear about. |
| Remington keeps those dates for quality and liability reasons should an issue come up. However, I doubt they would go back that far on ammo. Calling them would answer the question if such information is even out there anywhere. If Remington does not have it then this could be the needle in the hay stack we all hear about. |
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