I agree with Bill S, I do not think the shells will fire. The primers will most likely not work after 50 plus years. I tried to shoot some well preserved shells like these 20 years ago and half of them would not work then. I still have a bunch of these in the basement, they are good paper weights. I have quite a few 16 gauge paper shells about this age too, they did not fire for the most part either. Jent ---- jentpmitchell@msn.com