Hevi Shots Egg shaped ?
#3
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Estill Springs TN USA
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RE: Hevi Shots Egg shaped ?
I read the odd shapes are a result of the manufactoring process and they tried making all the shot perfect round but it didn' t pattern much better so they left it like it was.
#4
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pa
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RE: Hevi Shots Egg shaped ?
I think i just might have to cut one of them bad boys open and take a look inside. I know i opened up a Remington, Federal and a Winchester shell a few years ago and the Remington shell was the worst one for having egg and tear droped shapped pellets. Federal was 2nd and the Winchester shells were the best all perefectly round and all the same size!!!!
#7
RE: Hevi Shots Egg shaped ?
Ken, the way I read the reason for this is the following. Lead shot is dropped from a shot tower, and by the time it falls from that height it cools, hence the lead pellets are more consistantly rounded compared to hevishot. Where as hevishot, being much " Hotter" after getting melt down would need a shot tower 10X higher than for lead. So since this would be very impracticle they just cool it by dropping it into water. They then sift it into the different sizes of shot. You' ll also note that with hevishot every pellet is a little different in size, even with a shell labeld as #6' s. Close enough comes into play here. The results at the pattern boards seem to reinforce that there isn' t anything wrong with this system they have set-up. This is how it was explained to me.
#8
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: asheboro, nc
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RE: Hevi Shots Egg shaped ?
i heard people talkin about the heavy shot had been known to spilt barrels if not used in a remington gun with a remington choke. i don' t know the reason, or the validity but i do know the there were several manufactuers stressing to their customers not to use the heavy shot. has anyone else heard of this? it may just be some junk about remington going around, again i don' t know for sure.
#9
RE: Hevi Shots Egg shaped ?
I haven' t heard that about the Remington deal you were talking about and I seriously doubt there is any truth to it. If there was a problem with that it MIGHT have been from a very tight choke tube that was not made to shoot steel shot (only lead) and it swelled it a bit.