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Old 07-07-2023, 10:25 PM
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Here's an old box for ya!
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Old 07-08-2023, 08:11 AM
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Here's a few shells from Dad's old collection.



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Old 07-08-2023, 06:13 PM
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Here's a few shells from Dad's old collection.



Wow! They are old! Thanks!
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Old 07-09-2023, 01:25 AM
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I use to love the smell inside a freshly fired paper shotgun shell, i have some federal Mohawk in 20 gauge here, I wonder if the smell is the same
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Old 07-09-2023, 01:14 PM
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I use to love the smell inside a freshly fired paper shotgun shell.
^^^For me as well^^^^

Add that spent paper hull smell to; fresh coffee, the old coal/wood burning stove, bacon frying, fresh bread, fresh pipe tobacco being sparked up.....

That aroma takes me back 65 years at the snap of your fingers.

Bless my farming grandparents.... RIP.
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