| Marrakai |
| (.416 member) |
| 27/02/06 09:31 PM |
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Re: 12 guage solids?
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.303:
You mentioned:
In reply to:
the lead its self was covered in plastic with a little piece of stainless steel through the middle
which I believe equates with my previous description:
In reply to:
brass-rivetted plastic over-wad on top of the projectile
They may have changed the material which rivetted-on the plastic 'over-shot' wad according to availability.
They were certainly NOT military ordnance, simply commercially-available slug-loads in the early days of plastic wads. S&B were persistent in the use of paper shot-shell hulls, they still offer a line of paper cartridges today:
