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BIO shotgun shells - my review

jb4lcmjb4lcm Member Posts: 119 ✭✭
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I recently purchased a case (250) of this BIO shotgun 12 gauge for shooting skeet. I am not happy with the results at all! While I DO like the idea of plant-based wads that will turn into fertilizer in the field, I am not seeing a good enough reason to create the entire shell in this manner.


First off, it's really expensive but that's not the reason for my complaint as I knew the price before I purchased, but it ran nearly $20 per BOX after taxes.


What I experienced has been deduced to problems caused by the ammo itself: JAMMING in the chamber after being fired. The shell apparently is more sensitive to heat and expands a LOT, getting stuck in the chamber once fired. I had this happen in my Benelli SBE3 and my Browning BPS.


The Benelli SBE3 had a couple of rounds get stuck - stove-pipe on ejection. That was really weird. But the Browning pump experienced increasing difficulty ejecting the spent round the hotter the gun got. It got so bad that I experienced several shots that required TWO hands pulling on the forearm to get the shell to eject. Half way thru the second round I stopped using the pump gun and took it to my gun guy who spent 3 days with it and couldn't find anything wrong with the gun at all. It fired plastic rounds just fine, but this bio ammo gets stuck.


Just and FYI ...

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