8 GAUGE AMMUNITION

[1PATRIOT]

I'd like to get you guys opinion on some ammunition a buddy has come across .
It's made by Winchester , it's #8 gauge and he has some #2 shot lead/low velocity ,
00 Buck lead/low velocity , and #2 shot lead/high velocity .

I understood him to say it was made for industrial use only and has a belt/band around the base of the brass to prevent it being used in a 8 gauge shotgun.
It's brand new in the box .
Is there a market for this ? Whats the value ?
Thanks

 

[Fleetman]

A lot of industrial 8 ga are used for kiln cleaning.....one cleaning worth of 1750 empties. It sounds like his shells are used for cleaning; similar to bead-blasting.

The shells can be purchased at winchesterindustrial.com. They are pretty common shells.

 

[1PATRIOT]

Yes , I think they are .
If I remember right he said that Winchester will not sell them to the public.

 

[Jim Watson]

Industrial 8 gauge would be an overload in a shotgun, which it is why it is belted. I have read of swaging the belt down to use the hull only with appropriate reload for the old guns. (Banned for migratory game ca 1912, most states disallow for any hunting. So any 8 bore shotguns are likely to be quite old.)

I don't know of any resale value unless you can line up a cement company that needs some to shoot the clinker out of their kiln. We used one to tap slag out of a phosphorus furnace at TVA, quicker and safer than a lance.

 

[1PATRIOT]

Thank you fellas.
If anyone else has anymore input I'd appreciate it .
I'll check back later .

 

[Fleetman]

Actually, most that we use are low velocity but a bu<cke>tt-load of shot! IIRC - 650fps.....give or take.

 

[RPRNY]

They are used by utilities to knock the slag (essentially sodium) off of coal furnace walls. During scheduled maintenance. The furnace cools and the otherwise goopy, sludgy sodium left from burning pulverized coal, cools and hardens on the furnace walls and floor. Man shoots the slag with the 8 ga knocking it off the walls. It gets swept up and removed.

 

[1PATRIOT]

Thank yall for the information .

 

[bikemutt]

They are used by utilities to knock the slag (essentially sodium) off of coal furnace walls. During scheduled maintenance. The furnace cools and the otherwise goopy, sludgy sodium left from burning pulverized coal, cools and hardens on the furnace walls and floor. Man shoots the slag with the 8 ga knocking it off the walls. It gets swept up and removed.

Getting close to retirement I've been thinking about what to do between range visits; drive for Uber maybe, Walmart greeter, all sorts of things. Blasting sludge with an 8 ga shotgun, that sounds like fun, wonder if I could get free ammo and get paid for it?

 

[.455_Hunter]

Those 8 ga industrial guns look like something taken from a late Victorian naval vessel to fend off torpedo boats.

 

[RPRNY]

Getting close to retirement I've been thinking about what to do between range visits; drive for Uber maybe, Walmart greeter, all sorts of things. Blasting sludge with an 8 ga shotgun, that sounds like fun, wonder if I could get free ammo and get paid for it?

Union job though.

 

[Panzerschwein]

Looks like a good little stopper for small game and varmints. Wouldn't mind having a quad mount of those industrial 8 gauge Master Blasters on the porch to keep those damn squirrels off the bird feeder.

 

[Scooter22]

Here ya go. Just what you need mounted to your UAV.(urban assault vehicle)
http://winchesterindustrial.com/equipment.html

 

[Dan Forrester]

Be nice if the offered something like this in .50 BMG. You would figure they already have all the tooling made for it.

I've never seen one of the industrial 8ga guns for sale. And now a days it seems like you can find just about anything on gunbroker.

I wonder if Winchester and Remington only lease them out to company's to prevent them from getting out on the market. It looks like a lot of them have silencers on them too.

Dan

 

[PapaG]

Caught one of our club members about to shoot an 8 gauge kiln load in an 1890s CS Shattuck Damascus barreled shotgun (I have a 10 gauge). Had a check of a time convincing him of the danger. Loaded with a hardened lead slug.

 

[Scooter22]

Caught one of our club members about to shoot an 8 gauge kiln load in an 1890s CS Shattuck Damascus barreled shotgun (I have a 10 gauge). Had a check of a time convincing him of the danger. Loaded with a hardened lead slug.

That would have blown his 'klinker"off.