Challenger 12g shells

[trucker60]

Anyone have any feedback on challenger shells? I bought a case the other day. I was shooting trap and out of the first 50 about 13 of the primers fell out of the brass when the hull ejected. I shoot a semi auto and I was a little worried the spent primer would fall into the reciever.

 

[maynard]

I have fired several thousand of them and just picked up 2 more flats today. No problems in my O/U's or in my A400. Also use them in my 870 Wingmaster for busting crows and bunnies, no problem.

 

[kmoney]

Just finished three flats of their target loads. Good quality ammo with no malfunctions. Nothing particularly special vs. other ammo, but seems to be the cleanest I've managed to find. I've never had a qc problem or anything like you describe.

 

[DOA357]

Bought a bunch last year, not a single issue. Bad batch?

 

[cosmic]

They use Cheddite primers (and hulls). The primers are prone to being pierced, particularly in some O/U's . Good ammo otherwise, and made in Canada to boot.

 

[ShawnC6]

Worked great for me in the pump and semi auto

 

[Claybuster]

I've shot tens of thousands of Challenger shells and can't recall the primers falling out. Challenger reliability and performance is on par with other ammunition. My only objection to them is cold weather performance and they sometimes sound odd in extremely cold conditions.

 

[lowridersvt]

Have used thousands in both 12 and 20 gauge in every type of shotgun with no issue

 

[TheWhole9Yards]

Yea must be a bad batch, never had any issues with their shells

 

[silverfoxdj]

No issues in my pump..

 

[EL34/6L6]

First I've heard of it...

 

[trucker60]

Ya, I recently started using them, I shot about a thousand with no issue.
The first 2 boxes had the primers falling out. Shot another 50 on Sunday without a single issue. I did send an email to challenger, they replied right away asking for my number to discuss. I gave them my number and haven't heard anything since

 

[MadMarty]

No issues between about 1000 shells on two maverick 88's at my pumpkin shoot. Still have another 500!

 

[SIG FAN]

Slightly hard primers, but decent cheapo ammo.

 

[bobzombie]

its 75% of my skeet ammo , ran a couple thousand trough all kinds of shotguns ..... i had 1 dud

 

[Hairy Krisna]

Zero issues on both of my semi autos. 12 and 20g. Thousands of rounds of them and not one single issue

 

[popper]

What about their slugs guys? I like the Guallandi slug but had been using it in Rottweil ammo (the best quality shotgun ammo I've used).

 

[3macs1]

Must be 10 plus years ago or so there was a problem with some batches that had UK hull primer pocket dimensions and when North Americia dimension cheddite primers were installed this would happen but that was like I say many many years ago and limited to a few batches
Maybe it is happening again
Cheers

 

[lowridersvt]

There slugs are great have used them a tone over the years worked great in all my smoth bore shotguns

 

[EL34/6L6]

Cabelas just increased their price on this birdshot from $7.49 to $8.90.
I might be turning to Score from WSS for my low cost shell needs.