Card wads, made of felt, leather, and cork, as well as paperboard, were all used at various times.
These brass shotgun hulls or cases closely resembled large rifle cartridges, in terms of both the head and primer portions of the shotgun shell, as well as in their dimensions. A rifled slug uses rifling on the slug itself so it can be used in a smoothbore shotgun.Įarly shotgun shells used brass cases, not unlike pistol and rifle cartridge cases of the same era. A rifled barrel will increase the accuracy of sabot slugs, but makes it unsuitable for firing shot, as it imparts a spin to the shot cup, causing the shot cluster to disperse. Most shotgun shells are designed to be fired from a smoothbore barrel, but dedicated shotguns with rifled barrels are limited to lead slugs or sabot slugs as "shot" would be spread too wide by the rifling.
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Dragon's breath rounds: shells full of incendiary chemicals that creates a fireball/ flame when discharged, and can ignite a flammable target at close range. Piranha rounds: shells full of sharp tacks. Bolo rounds: two large lead balls attached by a wire. Ferret rounds: rounds designed to penetrate a thin barrier (e.g. Shotguns have an effective range of about 35 m (38 yd) with buckshot, 45 m (49 yd) with birdshot, 100 m (110 yd) with slugs, and well over 150 m (160 yd) with saboted slugs in rifled barrels. Slug shells can also be made with specialty non-lethal projectiles such as rubber and bean bag rounds. Other unusual projectiles such as saboted flechettes, rubber balls, rock salt and magnesium shards also exist. The projectiles are traditionally made of lead, but other metals such as steel, tungsten and bismuth are also used due to restrictions on lead, or for performance reasons such as achieving higher shot velocities by reducing the mass of the shot charge. The caliber of the shotshell is known as its gauge. The hull usually consists of a paper or plastic tube often covered at the base by a metallic head cover which retains a primer, and the shot charge is typically contained by a wadding/ sabot inside the case. A shell can sometimes also contain only a single large solid projectile known as a slug, fired usually through a rifled slug barrel. From left to right: brass, propellant, over-powder wad, shot wad, #8 birdshot, over-shot wad, and crimpĪ shotgun shell, shotshell or simply shell is a type of rimmed, cylindrical (straight-walled) cartridges used specifically in shotguns, and is typically loaded with numerous small, pellet-like spherical sub- projectiles called shot, fired through a smoothbore barrel with a tapered constriction at the muzzle to regulate the extent of scattering. A 12-gauge shotgun shell in a transparent plastic hull, allowing the contents to be seen.
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