Yes, the late ones anyway.

I have a box of old CBC 310 brass crimped shot shells, and the Remington shotgun to go with it.
I wonder if theses shells will work.
I'm looking at what appears to be an 1894 Fav in 32 shot, in pretty good shape. SN # S prefix

I see the Favorite Model 20 listed in .32 Shot as far back as the 1898 catalog.

James,

Don't see a Telegraphic Code shown to place an order for a Favorite in 25 Shot.
The old WRA catalogs don't show a 25 Shot cartridge available, nor do my Remington and Rem-UMC catalogs. But there were a lot of other ammo suppliers back in those days.

There was a far larger demand for shot cartridges than most realize.

The 1910 Rem-UMC catalog shows the following shot cartridges available:
     Rimfire Shot loadings -
BB Cap, 22 Long, 32 Long, 38 Short, 38 Long, 44 Short, 44 Long, 44 Henry, 56-50 Spencer, 56-52 Spencer, 56-56 Spencer, 41 Swiss Vetterli
     Centerfire Shot loadings -
22 Winchester, 30 Rook, 32 S&W, 32 S&W Long, 32 Short Colt, 32 Long Colt, 32 Merwin Hulbert & Co, 32 Winchester (4 different versions for the 32-20), 32 Extra Long Ballard, 38 S&W, 38 Short Colt, 38 Long Colt, 38 Extra Long, 38 Winchester (4 different versions for the 38-40), 41 Long Colt, 44 Webley, 44 Evans NM, 44 Long Ballard, 44 Merwin Hulbert & Co, 44 S&W Russian, 44 S&W American, 44 Winchester (4 different versions for the 44-40), 44 XL, 44 Extra Long Wesson, 45 Colt, 45 S&W, 50 Pistol, 32-40, 38-55, 38-56, 40-65, 40-82, 43 Egyptian, 11mm Mauser, 45-60 Win, 45-70 Govt, 45-75 Win, 45-90 Win, 50-50 Govt carbine, 50-70 Govt, 50-95 Win, 50-110 Win.

In the early 1950's, Jim Harvey of Lakeville Arms was converting large frame revolvers (he preferred using the N-frame S&W) to use shot cartridges, but the BATF shut that down in the mid 1950's.

Aaron,

Yep, fat-fingered that typo, and have corrected it to N-frame.
Harvey reamed out the cylinder throats, reamed out the rifling and cut an integral choke into the barrel.

boats wrote on Jun 26^th, 2016 at 9:09am:


Gee, what's the mania among your buddies for killing snakes?  Hardly a test of marksmanship.  I'd prefer to pick them up and look at them; like the time I picked up a rare Coral snake (only one I've ever seen before or since), and tempted by its beautiful colors, stretched it around my hat to see if it might be long enough to make a hatband--it was not, and just as well, as the colors would undoubtedly have faded.  (Takes a snake about twice as long as you'd think to make a good hatband.) 

Not saying ALL deserve such consideration: Cottonmouths are ugly & aggressive (I once killed a very large one by spearing its head with the sharp tip of my wading staff when I was flyfishing in Missouri), and in parts of the Southwest, like my grandfather's place in south Texas, Rattlers were so numerous that it was impossible to kill them fast enough.  (Only a HUGE rattler, by the way, has enough meat on it to be worth the trouble of dressing out, which I've also done.)  But I suspect anyone so fearful as to go to the trouble of carrying "snake loads" would be too ignorant to distinguish between harmless and dangerous.

boats wrote on Jun 26^th, 2016 at 3:50pm:


Did I not mention killing (& consuming) rattlers myself?  And if those gents discriminate between rattlers and corn snakes, rat snakes, king snakes, indigos, coachwhips, and dozens of others harmless species, more power to 'em.