Found in school yard

		Quote:			Posted by Live2Hunt
	So far this shotgun casing is my coolest find. My resarch shows that this model Peters shotgun shell was made between 1927 - the early 1960's.  So considing I found it on school grounds, I find it a bit intriguing.

It is but not surprising. Boys are always fascinated by ammunition. I remember taking an empty I found to school on more than one occasion. Must have been a closet NRA member even back then. Shotgun cartridges were formerly made from a cardboard tube rather than today's plastic. Whether or not that was fired (check after cleaning the primer) the case would have long ago disintegrated leaving only the brass behind. In days gone by, an empty cartridge would have been largely ignored. Even a bullet would have simply been stomped into the ground. In these days of gun hysteria, a swat team would be called out if you ever found an old, crusty and corroded .22 bullet.

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Heck, when I was a kid one of my classmates regularly brought his shotgun or rifle (depending on season) to school the Friday before the first weekend on hunting season or the Monday after.   His folks were divorced so he'd have to shlep it to school so his Dad and he could leave as soon as classes were over.  Back then, no one thought twice about it even those this was a "big city" school and not a country school.

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