i still have a jar of the old Hoppes #9
They could sell a metric crap ton of Hoppes#9 Potpouri

I thought this thread was going to be about pet's ashes in shotgun shells.

There was a company called "Departing Shot" or something similar that would take your dog's ashes and load them into shotgun shells. They could be in fancy brass shells for you to display or shells you could use to have one last hunt with your hunting buddy. I thought that was a pretty cool idea. I wish I had known about them when I had to put my Lab down. It would have been fun to take her one last time on a dove hunt.

That is EXACTLY what we did as kids, Great Post!!!!

McInnis said:

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Yeah, but the old Hoppe's no. 9 before they reformulated it to be more environmental friendly was pretty good too.

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Speaking of Hoppe's no. 9- am I the only one who has it always leak out of the bottle no matter how well the lid is screwed on? It never fails that the bottle tips over in storage and the solution leaks out of the cap.

There was a short story in DU magazine a couple of years ago about a guy taking his elderly dad on his last duck hunt. He was blind and couldnt see anything that was going on.

But when the son shot, he would hand his dad the empty hull and his dad would take a whiff and say, "ahh yeah, I see it now…"

Right on about the old paper shells! Was reloading for my old 20 back in my younger years on an old Lee single. Ran across a bunch of paper shells, and thought, what the heck, let's give them a try. Made absolutely the nicest crimp I'd ever made, and the smell after shot was soo good.