SnailRacer99
Senior Member
First hunt of February (really loving winter hunting). Four-hour hunt yielded two more Winchester Repeater No. 12, both within 2 feet of each other, and both found within the first ten minutes of hunting. What's interesting is I think one of them might still have part of the paper hull still attached.
At first I thought it was a plastic hull because it was frozen in an ice-block and all I saw was yellow. By the time I got home it had dried in my pocket ans sure enough it's an old shell. I'm hoping Turtle Foot can confirm my suspicions that it is, in fact, the original paper hull.
My records show a date of 1896-1927 (after 1927 they started putting "Made in USA on the head) so if it really is the paper hull, at its youngest this shell is 85 years old and somehow the paper didn't completely dissolve. I think that's pretty cool
At first I thought it was a plastic hull because it was frozen in an ice-block and all I saw was yellow. By the time I got home it had dried in my pocket ans sure enough it's an old shell. I'm hoping Turtle Foot can confirm my suspicions that it is, in fact, the original paper hull.
My records show a date of 1896-1927 (after 1927 they started putting "Made in USA on the head) so if it really is the paper hull, at its youngest this shell is 85 years old and somehow the paper didn't completely dissolve. I think that's pretty cool
