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2 oz of #10 shot at 540fps?
Unread 05-15-2019, 09:10 AM   #1
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Default 2 oz of #10 shot at 540fps?

https://wagnershells.com/product/2-2-10-shotgun-shells/
Anyone seen these? Looks like it will blow the barn doors off! What do you think the pressures would be at 2oz?
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Unread 05-15-2019, 09:30 AM   #2
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540 feet per second -

at the muzzle

you might be able to see a 2oz cloud of shot fall to the ground at that speed

and they show a turkey on the box for #10 size- i expect rain drops would penetrate the feathers more

"Simply put, this shell is designed for “blowing holes”"

sounds more like for blowing smoke
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thats a lot of shot, the 540fps through me off, I emailed them, but haven't heard back.
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Turkey Shoot shells (thus the turkey). A carry back to the nineteenth century when they were shooting their favorite rifle at a live turkey's head. They are used for shooting matches here in the South (at small paper targets with a cross hairs (X) in the middle, thus the blowing a hole mention). You'll see Winchester 37s with a barrel half way to the target and a scope to boot. Lots of effort spent in the guns, getting the right combination. I don't know about up North, but the matches here are a big event, usually with the hunt club bringing in lots of money for a few hams, sides of bacon, shoulders, money pots, etc. As much of a social event as anything, with a little liquor thrown in.

As a funny thing I will always remember, a fellow down the road from me had removed the scope from his single barrel. But whoever tapped it had gone all the way into the chamber. He did not put plugs back into the holes and every time he shot, he blew his cap off his head. Needless to say, the hulls I would get from his gun had two holes in them.
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Application : Target

maybe for paper target turkey shoot ??

JA , I was typing the same time you where , my guees was right.
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that would make sense - sure doesn't look like a hunting load
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A guy I used to work with wanted to cheat a "little" at the shooting match. He knew they were using Federal paper 1 1/8 ounce 9s so he brought me some hulls and asked could I help him out. So I loaded 1 1/2 ounce of 9s into the hull, and one could not tell the difference between a new shell and his secret shell.

So when they handed him the shell, which they do one at a time so the playing field is fair, he would pocket the factory shell and slip in the "magnum." He said it sounded like a cannon going off and would almost knock him to the ground in the light gun. I doubt it took the shooting match people long to figure it out. I guess I should have cut back on the powder.

https://www.turkeyshoot.net/rules.htm

In the link above you will find the 2-2-10 shells mentioned.
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learn something new everyday!!
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I saw some long barreled single-shot shotguns in an upcoming Rock Island Auction. I was trying to figure out what you would use them for. After reading this thread I now know. Those are some long barrels:

https://www.rockislandauction.com/de...-shot-shotguns
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I went with some friends a couple times this past winter to a “Turkey Shoot” across the mountain in Harrisonburg VA . First time I’d been to one in over thirty years I believe . Anyway they had the Wagner shells there . Seems they make a 540 FPS shell and another that’s 690 FPS if memory serves both with #10’s . Anyway I bought a box of the faster one “I think” . Never fired any but I will eventually .
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