Somebody texted me some facepage shit about some Apex shells that blew up, or something. Anybody know any details. I'm not on facepage.
Somebody texted me some facepage shit about some Apex shells that blew up, or something. Anybody know any details. I'm not on facepage.
Crops are harvested, animals are killed.
I heard something about it.... Be curious as what happened.
Saw that too. I'm not concerned. Granted I don't shoot Apex but I doubt there's anything to worry about. Some folks can break an anvil with a ripe banana.
"Hunt today to kill tomorrow." - Ron Jolly
99% chance their was a blockage within a couple inches of the end of the shell.
I was there. We were testing the hot new hometown blend "tss" load. These things are incredible and I don't wanna really go into it but just wanna say it coulda been worse had there not been safety precautions put in place and don't really wanna go into it but let me just say this couldn't have happened to a nicer barrel.
Dude on here was shooting his 20 gauge, sure he will tell about it at some point....patterned the 3inch 12 gauge #9s yesterday and was impressed.
I saw the pictures and still not 100% sure of how or why it blew up....but a couple of the guys on there said that was the second or third Alex shell they had herd of doing that.....
On another topic somebody bought a box of federal RED and they were mixed with lead pellets....."they would flatten after hitting the target and could be mashed with plyers"
When in doubt, shoot him again!
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What is Federal RED??
Crops are harvested, animals are killed.
The federal 3rd degree load is a mixture of TSS and lead. Not sure what RED is.....
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Claims they didn't penetrate wood
In my original post I ment Federal TSS......my phone auto corrected to RED
Last edited by HEAD; 02-26-2018 at 12:29 PM.
When in doubt, shoot him again!
Work like it's all up to me, but pray, like it's all up to him!
i patterned the "Federal Red" in my SBE2 and they hit the target noticeably harder than LBs. Pattern was OK with Rhino 660 but not great. Plan to go again with the factory full choke (see below)
i then patterned the M2 20ga 9s. Rhino choke was disappointing so switched to factory full choke and was impressed. Nice even pattern with 180+ in the 10" ring. I'm sure there is a choke out there to do better but i thought that was great for a factory full choke.
Can't speak to penetration as i didn't look closely at it. The pattern out of a factory full choke leads me to believe its not lead...
Last edited by ShortMagFan; 02-26-2018 at 12:17 PM.
There sure are a lot of dummies out there that shoot this TSS. People claim they shoot it for the pattern but they all know that they shoot it for the distance it gives, and for that reason, they may as well shoot a rifle. Some turkey hunters think they're "the best". Why does "the best" shoot TSS?? At 30-40 yards, a #6 will kill him all day long. Pathetic!
Because I can get pass throughs at 40 with 8s....
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When in doubt, shoot him again!
Work like it's all up to me, but pray, like it's all up to him!
You could have said that for a .410 with TSS 9s really.
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