Vintage pellets/co2 carts....any value? (pic added)

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Wrong Way · #1 Post by **Wrong Way** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:57 pm

Hey all....my shiloh just showed up at the door (Pretty sure UN-fired!) along with an older 357 and a BUNCH of old pellets/bulbs.... like a whole box full! Should I use them? or is there some "collector" value I should know of?

Ryan

airbuddy3 · #2 Post by **airbuddy3** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:20 pm

The collectors value they have is not what they sell for ...but more like
quality props for old crosman gun pics ...when you take pics of the classics ...So I wouldn't shoot them .

Frank

Wrong Way · #3 Post by **Wrong Way** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:58 pm

Look!

In that box there is 55 co2 bulbs, 1 old pack of "card" targets, and 4,500 .177 pellets! (I don't even OWN a .177!)

What am I supposed to do, sit on these forever incase I want to take a pic?

I forgot what ribbed skirted pellets look like though....kinda cute!

ustilago · #4 Post by **ustilago** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:21 pm

Oh, man! I remember buying those superpells when I was like. . . 8. I haven't seen a bag like that in almost 30 years.

That takes me waaaaaaayyyyyy back. . .

They have absolutely no value you should pay someone to take them off your hands.

cfraser · #5 Post by **cfraser** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:40 pm

I have some bags of .22 Superpells...they are very early '90's vintage, don't recall when they stopped the bags, but the bags sure keep the pellets shiny. Some time before that I know they came in little tins that opened like an old container for spices (from grocery store), those go back to the '70's IIRC, printing style matched the Powerlet boxes of the day (have those too).

Hey, I don't have that Powerlet style box in my "collection". I have lots going back to the '70's, but not THAT one...I think it's late '90's.

Problem with old Powerlets is they didn't have printing on them, so could come from anywhere. I remember using some in the '60's that were dark green, didn't keep any.

Oh yeah, I'm a real packrat.

Stratocaster · #6 Post by **Stratocaster** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:07 pm

I can't tell from the sales stickers - but were those originally sold in Home Hardware?

Those powerlets and pellets both look very familiar to me - I bought those when I was a kid in the late 80's, early 90's, at the local Home Hardware. It's amazing, powerlets are cheaper now than they were in those days...A powerlet was about a buck back then, and those dollars were hard to come by for a 12-year-old:

"Dad! Look at this pistol, it's so cool, it looks just like a real Beretta! What do you think?"

The newspaper drops a few inches as my father looks down his nose at the Le Baron catalogue I'm brandishing like Tablets from the Mount. He shrugs. "It's another CO2 gun," he says. "You'll just waste all your money on those gal-dang powerlets." Back up goes the paper, dismissing me.

So I ended up getting a 1377 instead, along with a decent set of biceps from pumping the goddam thing 30 times for each precious shot. Yes, those were the days...

cfraser · #7 Post by **cfraser** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:51 pm

Yeah, I remember that was the downside of CO2 shooting when I was a kid. I have some powerlets from '72 and they were $2.35 a box. That was almost 2 hours of work pay for me! I have seen powerlets for $3.50 a box (5) recently, so they are effectively lots cheaper now.

Wrong Way · #8 Post by **Wrong Way** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:58 pm

Just took a close look at these.....the boxrs have woolco price stickers still on them. $2.87! The bulbs have kind of a "crimped on" cap? Never seen that before.

Ryan