Sweet 16 blows up using Boss ammo
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PTM
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I dug around the intrawebs couldn’t find much about other examples. Some reported boss ammo having issues getting wet. I’ve seem obstructed barrels blow up but this dismantled the receiver and internals.
PTM
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Do hunt a lot of WPA’s? Great job on 3 roostersThe boss I shot yesterday did some damage to the internals of the receiver.
The receivers were 3 roosters. Definitely messed up their internals.
This was a modern 12 gauge, not a sweet 16.
Thanks. This was after 2 days of being skunked last week and some gun/shooting issues that I might be overcoming. (don't want to jinx myself toooo much)
This was in SC Minnesota. I got them on 2 different WMAs, in cattails. I will be hitting a WPA today in SW MN.
It all depends on what is available in the area I am going, and whether there are cattails and whether there are birds and whether there is something about the properties that makes them, or parts of them, less likely to be hunted by others.
Some of the WPAs can be tough, if it is a massive sea of cattails. Smaller sloughs or sloughs with shallower fringes around the outside of the body of water are easier for me.
3-4" of fresh snow (still snowing).
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KEOutdoors
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Theres been several reports of it on FB, boss always says its the gun fault. That stuff is too hot, way too hot.. it pings my Beretta, slams the bolt back so hard it makes a ringing sound (never had another shell do that).. and kicks hulls about 5 full feet farther than anything else. Not to mention hulls splitting wide open. Again if you contact boss with these issues they say its the gun.
PTM
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Are you still using it or did you change brands? I thought about trying some in 28 gauge but probably going to take a pass on it.
Bob Peters
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I wonder if people have tested stated velocities through a chrono? I've only a few shells left of 12ga. 2 3/4 and haven't seen the hulls split although I got a few squib loads(3), albeit in snowy conditions, I think snow melted and powder got wet. I ordered a case of Kent #4 in 12 and have had excellent results with it in both dry and damp conditions. Thanks again BrownDogsCan2!
PTM
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That’s a good question, there a husband wife team at my retriever club that have been using them for a long time without issue, they shoot 725’s though, they like it, Ive got numerous boxes of hevi-shot hevi pheasant, they used to troll this site pretty hard. Its ok but I just don’t shoot steel for pheasants very often.
Chessie 67
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I have shot 2 cases of Boss shells between my SBE12 and my new style Sweet 16 with no problems.
