Score Shotgun Shells

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Went to Wholesale Sports today picked up 2 boxes of 3 inch steel score shells in number 2 shot. Good to see them carrying a Canadian made product. Anyone use this yet. I will give a review when I get out.
 
Just shot a box of the #8 today myself. I like that they carry Score now. Hope they will carry #4 or #5 lead a decent price eventually and slugs too. Just target and steel when I was there.
 
I patterned some of the Score 3 1/2 in 12 ga in a couple of my shotguns. I found them to be quite good. Very similar to Winchesters steel loads. So I bought some more. I just hope a new Canadian company can get enough business to stay afloat and develop competitive products to compete with American companies who don't care if their products are sold north of 49 or not.
 
My buds and I shot 23 Canadas over the weekend using Score, 3"#3 shot. This was in a wheat field over decoys. They worked fine for us with only a few wounded ones which were retrieved.

DF
 
A friend and I shot off a box of target Score the other day. We were shooting (at) clay pigeons, so couldn't say about patterns. I think some of them maybe didn't have any lead in them. :p

I will definitely buy more. Great to see a Canadian outfit making ammo!

I had purchased a case that day. My friend must have ESP. He phoned me after I bought them and asked me out to his place to shoot.
 
I have used Score 3" steel loads for a while. They tend to have very thin metal in the case heads. This causes extraction issues with older pumps (Winchester 12) and my buddy's Browning Auto 5. You can plainly see where the case head actually picks up the impression of the extractor cut. During patterning this summer more than a few wads were recovered 75 yards down range these wads were only cut down about a quarter of an inch and did not flare out. Strangely the patterns seemed not to suffer. Any unfired Score rounds run through my Baikal MP133 (pump) have badly chewed case rims from the Baikal ejector, this eventually causes feeding problems.. None of these noted problems have occurred with Winchester cheapo Expert HV steel cartridges. I support Canadian companies as much as I can but when my current supply of Score runs out I won't be buying more. The Challenger made Canadian Tire Imperial is in my opinion a much better product and still Canadian made. My buddy shot some ducks yesterday with the Score loads and they do kill well so all is not bad.


Darryl
 
My Score Slugs have been awesome.
They are apparently loaded with something called a "Thug Slug" which is meant to be used in rifled or choked smoothbore barrels.
I have a fully rifled barrel and a "bird" barrel for my 870. Oddly, the gun shoots better with an IC choke and the smoothbore barrel than it does out of the rifled.
They seem to be about as close to a Brenneke style slug as you can get without actually hunting down Brenneke slugs.
Pricing is good on them too.
 
Went through a case of 3" BB's during last years Goose season....no problems at all with them...have a another case for this year ready to roll. Good product buy with confidence.

Browning Maxus user by the way.
Neighbors kid used a Win 12 none of the issues above...Fiocchi hulls... have found them a good quality component
 
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I used some of the 'light loads' for a CAS shoot a couple weeks ago. They went bang and hit what I aimed at, so I'm happy with them.
 
I've used them for 99% of my hunts this year (48 shots so far). I had a few bobbles early on with them, but they are absolutely deadly out of my Auto-5 Magnum Twelve with the Poly-Choke set to IMP CYL. I've mainly used the 3" #3.

The crimps aren't the nicest (better than Winchester though :rolleyes:), and I think if they bumped the shot up to 1 1/4oz and dropped the speed down to ~1400 or so, that would make them a lot nicer (like the 2 3/4" 1 1/8oz at 1400 if I recall correctly).

I think they're an alright shell, but nothing ground breaking about them. I bought them because they're Canadian, and I wanted to try them out, but since they're not available locally and I have to mail order them ($$$), I don't know if I'll shoot them again once this case runs out.

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Cory
 
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