How about posting a picture of your collection or this and that of your collection?

My smallest and largest rimfires, with a 22LR for scale

A few shotshells

A few rifle rounds

Some odds and ends



For display / storage old metal "blue print" or "map" drawers work real well. The problem with standing displays is that things like to fall over, all the time.

The 3 days (Thur-Sat) before Easter in St Louis, MO the worlds largest cartridges show is held. www.cartridgecollectors.org is the home page for the International Ammunition Association

Yup , aint nothin as annoying as the sound of cartridge dominoes.....

Great collection. Please tell me about these things.

Thems whale tags for studying the migration of whales back in the 1960's and 70's or so.

The tag was fired in to a whale somewhere , the exact location recorded and then when the whale was "harvested" the tag details and location was sent off to the British Natural History Museum , allowing data on whale movements globally to be collated . Not much joy for the whale but all very scientific , unlike the scientific slaughter of whales for the Japanese restaurant trade .....

There are a selection of these in circulation , the red one with the Hollands shotshell-based cartridge is probably the most common one seen but any of them are not common anyway.

As an aside , I was reading an English book on 1950's Antarctic/ Southern Ocean whaling which stated that the factory ships hated those whale tags cos if they were not removed before the whale carcase made it to the digester , the tags broke the blades on the rotary knives that chopped the whale into small bits inside the processing plant . Apparently it took 2 days to manually extract all the bits of dead whale out of there so the blades could be replaced....

Just a fishy tale , for what its worth ...

Tailgunner - is that a Milsbank-Amsler in your first pic?

Wish mine was in as good a condition as that .

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Tailgunner - is that a Milsbank-Amsler in your first pic?

Wish mine was in as good a condition as that .

Give that man a cigar, because that's exactly what it is. 18mm Milsbank-Amsler

I don't have the tagging dart headstamps recorded in my data base, but IIRC those 2 are by Fiocchi

Tgunner, that center piece of your Odds and Ends pictures is the finest looking projectile I've cast my eyes on for awhile, is that a bazooka projectile?

How do you keep track of what you're needing when you're at a show? Do you have your notes with you to avoid repeat headstamps?

Dirty
That's a 2.34" bazooka round, and I also have a 3.5" sample (both are inert)

I use a excel spreadsheet to keep track of what I have, and one page of it is titled "Wanted", so yes, I carry notes.

Some pic's of my vintage ammo collection, mostly metrics & mostly full boxes

On displays, ya, hate that domino effect. I haven't seen a display yet that really meets all the demans and needs of active collections, seems like we're always getting more, then to put them in the proper "spot" in the display. Usually involves rearranging a row . . . very carefully at best.

Guess there's no way around it though, at least I havaen't thought up a better way. I use a display that's made for model cars, but does ok for cases, long as you don't tip one over accidentally Waidmannsheil, Dom.

Rod Herrin from Wasilla in the Alaska gun collectors show in Anchorage Aug.7&8 2010

Part of my collection

pistol & rifle CF cartridges:



Mostly pistol cartridges and wildcats:



Shotshells 7 mm to 10 gauge:



Pinfire Shotshells, Brass Shotshells , shotshells from 8 to 4 gauge , some big stuff ( actually not my field of collecting):

To keep your shells from falling over in a display case(and watch the wood cases gentlemen as the wood is acidic)...Use 3M poster double sided tape,it sticks to the shelves and to the bottom of the cartridge,but releases when you need to move the row around,I have used this stuff for years w/o any issues ....I also use plastic or metal cases,with glass shelves,no ascid present in these items....Oak is the most acidic....

Good Luck,Jim

superglue on the head of the case will stop them from falling over too....

I prefer to display mine horizontally in drawers lined with corrigated cardboard. I use old cotton reel cabinets - you guys might call them cotton spools or similar , or bobbins maybe.
Drawers are ideal , the ctges are readily viewed and can be accessed easily without the domino effect.

Unfortunately cotton reel cabinets are pretty scarce here these days , but I did score a bunch of them back in the days before they became scarce so my storage isnt a major issue any more.

When you take out the domino effect, you have removed half of the fun

very cool

Well,it's taken me awhile,but here is a picture of my "big board" I have several other smaller boards also....Bigbird34

It's also good to know that there are other Cartridge nuts out there also....

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Well the first try failed ....second try ...

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Well the first try failed ....second try ...

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Civil war board.....

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BB

Failure again (

Upper Left Teat fire 36 cal,below left cupfire .36 cal .Upper right Pin fires from 22 cal 12mm....below right A round from the 'Billingshurst-Requa Battery" 50 cal.

Bottom Left "Maynards from .22 cal, 35-30 1865,35-30 1873,40-40 1873,.50 1865,.64 cal 1873....

Enjoy BB

Beautiful displays BB thanks for posting! .DT

I would but I would have to stand back about 30' to get everything into the picture.