An issue has come up about which I think you should be aware. Recently several reloaders have contacted me with questions concerning their reloading a nontoxic shot product they have purchased at Buck¹s Run Sports Supply which the reloaders call and are led to believe is HEVI-13®.
I have asked each reloader as they contact me to send me samples, but have never received any. All I can ferret out is that the alleged HEVI-13 pellets are being packaged in plastic ³jars² or sometimes bags that have some form of spelling of the word ³HEVI² or ³HEAVY² and the numeral ³13² handwritten but not printed on the shot container. I can¹t get to the bottom of this because I can¹t get any samples. And the Buck¹s Run website is of no help because it¹s a mess and currently dysfunctional.
Can¹t even get their phone number.
The reloaders have given me various descriptions of what the alleged
HEVI-13 pellets look like being sold by Buck¹s Run and those descriptions vary from ³silver-colored² to ³quite round² to ³looks like they have a faint band around the middle,² all of which tells me that the pellets are definitely NOT HEVI-13 pellets. They are some other shot product obtained from some other supplier which I suspect is the same source from which Ballistic Products obtains the pellets it calls its ³ITX Shot.²
At any rate, it appears to me there are numerous reloaders out there being duped by Buck¹s Run that they are purchasing HEVI-13 pellets. The purchasers are convinced that the pellets are both 13 density and Environ-Metal¹s HEVI-13® product.
We have never sold HEVI-13® pellets to any source. When purchasing HEVI-Shot® pellets please purchase them from a qualified reloading house such as Ballistic Products. We will begin offering bulk HEVI-Shot® pellets direct from the factory by fall of this year
