Shotgun with Brass Cartridges (shells)

Captplaid

So I'm watching another Russian movie and it starts out with a semi modern day guy bird hunting with a double barrel shotgun. He's putting brass shells in it. Movie accentuates the sound of the sliding brass. You get a glimpse a could times and its brass he's handling in the double barrel. Is that common for foriegn shotguns?

Da-Tank

Them brass ones are real easy to reload.

Smitty500mag

I found some 12 ga. 00 brass shotgun shells in my Great Grandpa's attic that had been there since sometime before he had a stroke back in the late 30s. I shot a couple of them in the late 90s and they shot just as good as new.

Those shells had been in below zero temperatures in the winters and way over 100 degrees in the summers with all kinds of variation in humidity and it didn't deteriorate the shells at all.

HandLoad

They look badass in a bandolier.

mark christian

Brass shells are still fairly common in Eastern Europe where, as Da-Tank already said, they are easily reloaded. Brass shells were fairly common in the United States prior to WWII and were adopted by the military as the M19


The brass shells used by the military are identical to commercial brass, so the only way you can tell them apart is by the lacquer used on the M19 primers.

john carr

I still have a dozen of them I bought at a gun show about the same time I bought an L. C. Smith side by side 12 made in 1904. Loaded them with black powder. More fun that I deserve.