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Guns.com talks shotshells, company roots, and metallurgy with Jeff Barry, Kent Cartridge Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

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Besides satisfying a curiosity about how these rounds will pattern, there are essentially three practical reasons for loading reduced length shells.

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The case, which involved a 2012 drive-by shooting, was revisited after Thomas’ acquittal of an unrelated 2014 murder that he later admitted to on Facebook.

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Texas-based ammo maker Rio Ammunition introduced a new multi-purpose load, the Wing & Target Shotshell, aimed at hunting and target shooting.

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Shotgunners needing extra space to stow shells will have two new options couresty of Mossberg, who announced the additions of a shotgun bandolier and shotgun belt to its accessories lineup.

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The V3 Field Sport Walnut shotgun is the latest in Remington’s autoloaders line-up, according to a press release issued by the company last week.

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Federal Premium Ammunition offers shotgun shooters a new load in the Gold Medal shot shell lineup with the recently announced Gold Medal Grand.

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In honor of the country's birthday, TNOutdoors9 loaded up a Mossberg 935 with a handful of Dragon's Breath shells and went to town on some steel plates.

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Taofledermaus, the same group of guys that have proven the ballistic capabilities of gummi bears, recently crafted some super heavy tungsten shotgun slugs, then promptly saw what they could do.

The post Experimental super magnum tungsten 12 ga. slugs v. steel plates and concrete (VIDEO) appeared first on Guns.com.

In most other shells, the wad becomes unstable after propelling out of the barrel and subsequently disengages from the shot. Winchester had a neat idea to make the wads both more robust and colored.

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The teen says he simply forgot that he had left the gun in his car following a hunting trip the night before and students at the school are rallying around him to show their support.

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An elementary school student in Louisiana tested the knockdown power of various shotgun shells for a science fair project last Tuesday. For the Our Lady of Prompt Succor School Science Fair, 11-year-old Cody Michael Crooks-Saucier wanted to find out which No. 6 2 ¾ inch 12-guage shell packed the most punch at 30 yards. After […]

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