Shot gun shell ?
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Shot gun shell ?
Why aren't shot gun shells the advertised length ? A 2 3/4 is only 2 1/4 a 3" is only 2 1/2. Are they taking into consideration the length before it's crimped or what ?
How much longer before brass is phased out ? More and more all I'm finding is cheep low tin shells. I found a box of Remington 12ga 3" mags with high brass and had to pay $23 for them but I was happy to even get them.
How much longer before brass is phased out ? More and more all I'm finding is cheep low tin shells. I found a box of Remington 12ga 3" mags with high brass and had to pay $23 for them but I was happy to even get them.
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I don't know but your post did get me to measure on of my 2 3/4" shells and it was only 2 1/4" long as you said so I then measured a shell that had been fired and it was 2 5/8" with the crimp opened still leaving it 1/8" short of 2 3/4". I've read online a while back about brass being phased out but all the shotgun shells and other ammo that I've purchased recently are still brass.
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Most of the stuff I see now is all low tin, you have to get up the the slugs a 00 buck to see a true high brass round.
20 Most-Asked Shotgun Questions Answered by an Expert - Page Two look at No 12
20 Most-Asked Shotgun Questions Answered by an Expert - Page Two look at No 12
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Most of the stuff I see now is all low tin, you have to get up the the slugs a 00 buck to see a true high brass round.
20 Most-Asked Shotgun Questions Answered by an Expert - Page Two look at No 12
20 Most-Asked Shotgun Questions Answered by an Expert - Page Two look at No 12
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Most of the stuff I see now is all low tin, you have to get up the the slugs a 00 buck to see a true high brass round.
20 Most-Asked Shotgun Questions Answered by an Expert - Page Two look at No 12
20 Most-Asked Shotgun Questions Answered by an Expert - Page Two look at No 12
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Most of the stuff I see now is all low tin, you have to get up the the slugs a 00 buck to see a true high brass round.
20 Most-Asked Shotgun Questions Answered by an Expert - Page Two look at No 12
20 Most-Asked Shotgun Questions Answered by an Expert - Page Two look at No 12
Very good article!!
The only shotgun shells that I have bought (12 ga., anway), in the last 15 years, has been slugs/sabot slugs.
I load all of my 'shot' shells.
I almost dropped my teeth (and they are 100% 'original equipment'!) when I saw the price(s) of the MEC 600 Jr. presses, yesterday!!!!
I've got one MEC 600 Jr. that's over 40 years old, and works like a new one.
(I traded an old Zenith 25" color tv for it. And the tv didn't work!!) Hey! I didn't make the 'deal'. I was told that he'd give me the 600 Jr. for it!
The 20 ga. 600 Jr. cost me less than $85.00!!!
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