Help identify shotgun cartridges

[liam9056]

Can anyone tell me anything about these cartridges, the blue and red ones have the military crows foot and have a lead ball in. The ones with a goose on I think are russian. Are these very old?

cheers
liam

 

[hangarman]

Hi Liam,
The ones with the broad arrow on are for Home Guard use and the plastic ones date from the 1980's. I don't think the Russian ones are even that old.
Cheers
Gary

 

[Falcon]

Be aware that the cartridges with the single ball are classed as section 1 ammunition. This is the same category as bulleted ammunition.

 

[TonyE]

You beat me to it, G!

Cheers
Tony

 

[liam9056]

Thanks for the info fellas, are they worth anything as I was wandering whether to keep a couple and sell rest on to buy other bits for my collection. I'm not really into shotgun cartridges but I got them when I was given a friends collection. I've got a section 1 collection on my fac.

cheers
liam

 

[2pounder]

some broad arrow cases were loaded with SG size shot and these are not Section 1. You must look at the wad in the top to see what they have in them. Sorry if I'm telling you something you know but here we like to be safer than sorry.

 

[liam9056]

From what I can see there's a single lead ball in the end.

 

[peashooter]

You will normally see a round card top with a hole in the middle with the top off the ball poking through or if it has a solid card it will say what is inside the case, Please PM if you want to swap these shotgun cartridges for small arms ammunition I have 100's of spare rounds

Richard.