No, I'm not looking to find out how much something is worth or anything like that. Just an observation.
I bought my shotguns many years ago, 30+years, so just for jollies last night, I was looking up the current used prices on used shotguns, and just kind of seeing where the evolution of the shotgun was at.
First off, I was stunned at how much the "cheap Japanese made" Winchester 101's I have are now valued at. I hope I never drop one in the field now, which is one of the reason I bought them in the first place, to be able to accidentally drop one in the field and not start crying, because they were relatively inexpensive then. I also saw that shotgun shells from 30-40 years ago now sell for much, much, more than what they cost back then. I know this because I have boxes of 12,20 and 28 gauge shells from the 80's and 90's, with the prices still on them.
I get that "things" naturally increase in value over time, one of them being firearms in general, but I never expected to see something like shotgun shells become "collector items".