Peters?

[Decapod]

Anybody know when Peters stopped loading rifle ammo? Poking around some dusty hills in central Oregon I found a 250-3000 unfired round, much tromped on by elk or free-range cattle. I've tried Googling Peters, no luck. Old Gun Digests stopped listing their stuff by the late 50s/early 60s.

Location was overlooking a little valley, perfect sniping spot. Guy with cold fingers fumble it? In his excitement at spying a nice buck forgot he already had a round chambered? Wish this stuff could talk.

[CannonKrazy]

It would be interesting to know if the hunter fired a shot before dropping the loaded round. Also it would be interesting to know if it was a sucessful shot.Finding old ammo like that out in the field kind of makes you stop and think "what was the hunter thinking" and " how did he plan his shot".  Good find.

[Graybeard]

Technically speaking I guess you could say they didn't. Peter's was a trade mark brand of Remington's. At one time in the days of my youth they offered ammo marked both as Remington and Peter's then at one point called it Remington-Peters then finally for some reason just dropped the Peters name completely but the same ammo is still being made by Remington just with their name on it. That's why folks use RP for Remington as a short name it stands for Remington-Peters. Personally I liked the blue shotgun hulls used in the Peters line.

[quickdtoo]

If you look at modern Remington brass, it's still marked R-P. 

Tim

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peters_Cartridge_Company

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Arms

During the Great Depression, Remington was purchased by the DuPont Corporation, which had made its fortune with improvements to gunpowder. A year later, Remington purchased the Peters Cartridge Company; today, many of the Remington headstamps still have R-P on them for Remington-Peters.

[Decapod]

I'm aware of the R-P connection, and that Peters was once an independant company. And longer ago than when my found cartridge was made I imagine, since the 250-3000 may have come out (c. 1919?)after Remington had already bought them up. It was just fun to speculate about the circumstances of this one round so that's why I asked about the "Peters" headstamp.

A few miles away I also found a fired .30-06 case with "SL" and "43" just laying on top of the leaves, much tarnished but otherwise in good shape (I know, St. Louis/1943). I like to imagine it was fired by some guy with an old Springfield, maybe a logger after the crew knocked off for the day since it was near a grown-over logging road. Of course that and the 250-3000 could have sat in somebody's drawer for 50 yrs before being used, but it's more fun to imagine ghost hunters walking the woods.

I'm also old enough to remember those Peters shotgun shells, may even have a few still laying around that I didn't shoot from my old Mossy bolt action 12 ga. Thanks for all your input, this is a great site.

[Siskiyou]

I have always thought the old Peters Inter Belt bullet was another name for the Remington Core Lock bullet.  I recall 50+ years ago seeing adds for the Inter Belt bullet in the 30-06.  The picture in the ad showed a charging African Lion.

I still have part of an orginal blue and white with red lettering Peters 38 Speical ammuntion loaded with a 125-grain Hollow Point bullet.  This is from the early 1970's.

[Bob Riebe]

When Peters Blue Magic trap shells came out in the mid-seventies, they were considered one of the best U.S. trap shell, and they were unique to Peters.