Winchester AA 50th. Anniversary

[rcmodel]

I was watching American Rifleman TV tonight and they had a feature noting the AA shell came out 50 years ago this year!!

Jeeze!

I was 21 years old then, and it was a remarkable improvement over paper hulls if you reloaded shotgun shells.

By 1968-69, I was picking them up on the Ft. Carson CO Trap & Skeet ranges until I had a 5 gal bucket full of them.

I would size & deprime them, then take a mesh bag full of hulls to the local coin-op laundromat.
And wash them for .25 cents!!


They came out clean as new, and lasted from then on!!
I still have some in the basement ready to reload.

My, how time flies!!
It can't possibly be that long ago??

rc

 

[PapaG]

My first ones were found on a farm in an abandoned car. (hulls). Probably about 1968. I loaded them for years and years.
Read that in testing Olin found they could be reloaded so many times they almost named them the "Plastic 50s". Still have a thousand or so once fired in the shop somewhere.
Kind of like the Remington Gun Clubs now.
AAs have changed and have a separate base wad, I believe, not that it makes much difference to me.