Trying to find out the materials used in these shotgun shells

[Telesway]

Tried Google but either my googling skills are bad or there's just very little info available on these.

Browning Legia (67g, I think)
Gamebore Clear Winner competition load, 12cal
Torhammer 12cal
Winchester 12cal Expert Line (double base ball powder) 36g, 78mm
Winchester Super Speed gen 2, 16cal no.5shot/plomb N

Any help on finding out the material used in the shots would be very helpful. Thanks in advance!

-Chris

 

[drsfmd]

Most factory shells are proprietary and use powders (and sometimes wads) that aren't available to reloaders.

Beyond that, I'm not sure wha you're asking...

 

[Telesway]

I need to know if the contents of the shells are made of lead, tin, or if they are coated with nickle or some other material?

 

[oneounceload]

It should say on the box if it is not lead as companies like to brag about nickel coatings, or other non tox materials

 

[Telesway]

Alas, the boxes don't say anything about lead or no lead or nickel or any other material and I have read every single print on the damn things but to no avail. THere's nothing on the shells themselves either (nothing on the subject of materials anyway), so that's why I'm asking here.

 

[drsfmd]

If it says nothing about the composition of the shot, it's lead. Lead shot has a bit of tin and antimony added.

My guess is that you aren't in the US... I don't recognize any of those shells.

 

[JohnBT]

www.browningint.com/winchester/products/04w/cart/tab.pdf

At the bottom of the chart. The Legia are lead. Glancing at the chart, the pellets that are steel, nickel, tungsten, etc. are marked by a code that listed at the bottom.

 

[JohnBT]

Clear Winner is discontinued. It was a lead shot target load with a "gordon recoil reduction system".

 

[JohnBT]

www.akah.de/structure_default/main.asp/G/111327/A/1/S//R/0/L/1033/N/1631468/ON/1476881

Torhammer is lead shot.

 

[JohnBT]

www.browningint.com/services/catalogues/winch07/mun_win07uk.pdf

Winchester Expert line is on page 10. It's lead. And it's called Super Speed.

 

[JohnBT]

Is it time for the game yet?

 

[bergmen]

Tried Google but either my googling skills are bad or there's just very little info available on these.

Browning Legia (67g, I think)
Gamebore Clear Winner competition load, 12cal
Torhammer 12cal
Winchester 12cal Expert Line (double base ball powder) 36g, 78mm
Winchester Super Speed gen 2, 16cal no.5shot/plomb N

Any help on finding out the material used in the shots would be very helpful. Thanks in advance!

-Chris

Never once seen the abbreviation "cal" associated with shotgun shells. If that is the case, they are an unknown quantity.

Dan

 

[303tom]

Never once seen the abbreviation "cal" associated with shotgun shells. If that is the case, they are an unknown quantity.

Dan

Kind of what I was thinking.

 

[Telesway]

Thanks, guys, I got the information I needed.

As for the "cal", I was referring to the fact that the shells are for a 12 gauge shotgun. The mistake comes from the fact that, as drsfmd already guessed, I'm not in the US and in my language usually even local gunshops do not differentiate between the words "gauge" and "caliber" and instead talk of 12 caliber shotguns.

Glad this terminology-thing came up though, I'll remember to refer to gauges instead of calibers from now on when it comes to discussing shotguns in English.

 

[JohnBT]

You're welcome.

JT

 

[oneounceload]

Never once seen the abbreviation "cal" associated with shotgun shells. If that is the case, they are an unknown quantity.

"Cal" is used a lot in Europe to designate "caliber"

 

[sidibear]

The only time I have heard "cal" used as a reference to calibre in the UK is 50cal, everything else is just 357, 45, 7.62, 223 etc.
Shotguns size is usually referred to as "bore",12bore, 20bore etc, with the exception of .410.

 

[oneounceload]

True for England, sorry - but not necessarily in Spain, France, Italy or Germany