What kinda shot is this?

[Oconeeguy]

Found this at an old gun shop here in Athens.  The box of 10 Federal shells Has "heavyweight " on it, but also has "copper plated shot" which indicates copper, not tungsten.
What are these shells??

[batsonbe]

Federal 3rd degree has heavyweight copper shot and flight stopper shot in it

[Oconeeguy]

Third degree shells are pretty new stuff, just been out a very few years. This is OLD.

[merriamsman]

That's copper plated lead shot.

[owlhoot]

That's copper plated lead shot.

Yep and the heavyweight is for the 2oz.load of shot which then was a common 17/8 oz.
Neat find

[Cut N Run]

Those pre-date the flitecontrol wad too.  I shot those for several years and killed quite a few turkeys with them.  Should be burgundy ribbed hulls with black ink.  That's definitely a fair price on the box too.

Jim

[Oconeeguy]

Had a similar find at a hardware store here in North Georgia a couple years ago. Older store with cabinets in the sporting goods area. The guy who worked there let me ramble in the cabinets and I found these. Sadly, I sold my 3 1/2" Mossberg soon after and I can't use them. Simply honored guests in my ammo box 

[Spitten and drummen]

Old school copper plated lead shot.

[3bailey3]

That is cool find for both of you guys, that's ole school!

[Flyinhunter]

Nice birds!! Sounds like an awesome hunt!


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[poolboy]

Yep. Really good copper plated lead. I used those and they flat work. Great find!

[pabossie255]

Sounds like me I have 2 new boxes of the old Remington turkey 6 shot Hevi Shot 10 shells per box 3 1/2" and I sold my 870 Super Mag. If I could figure out how to resize my pictures I would list them for sale in the classifieds used to just be able to download them from my IPad I did not even need to resize them.

[Tony Hawkins]

I still have some of those in 3" #6 and #4 that I bought back in 88-92 when I was in high school. They shot well out of my BPS, and like others said they killed turkeys for me. I still carry some around with me in my vest. My son and I will split a box of the "latest / greatest" each year, and I figure if I run out of them, I can throw in some old-school turkey loads. Those Federal Premiums and the black Winchester Supremes will still do the job.