Active Shells

Shooting them or save them ? Also have 20 gauge.

Joescout

 

Shoot them, reload them, shoot them again, repeat.

 

I once had a couple bags of Activ wads - straight walled hull think Federal wads will work.

Had a fellow in Utah who would buy all my once shot hulls and boxes.

 

I would keep one box, for nostalgia sake, and shoot the rest.

 

shoot em!

 

I guess most of them will go down range - I bought a case of 20 gauge Activs a few years ago before the ammo crunch for $30.00 - keeping a couple of each to go with my ammo collection. Thanks!

 

whats funny is I remember when they came out....and now people call it vintage ammo. heck what does that make me? lol.
when I worked at NAS oceana navy s/t range, I use to pick up those hulls on 7 ranges weekly. it would fill a pickup bed.
management would then sell those once fired hulls for 5.00 an empty clay box full. time marches on.

 

I remember buying those back in the mid 80's for $20.00 a case (500) sold them at our local club. I thought they were great shells. You could re-load them with Federal recipes several times. I loved them for handicap shooting. The 3 dram 7-1/2 were fast & soft shooting.

 

I still have a few boxes, and a drum full of once fired empties. I have been loading them for bunker shooting.

 

I do remember semi shooters complained about weak rims causing fail to extract issues when they borrowed the club guns (beretta 302's.) but o&u's...no issues.

 

Activ shotshells are still being manufactured in Argentina, but they are not being exported.

 

Shoot em

 

Wish you could still get them like you guys l shot tons of them

 

Activ shotshells are still being manufactured in Argentina, but they do not export them.

 

If my memory serves me right, Activ folded and the old Eclipse shell manufacturer was sold to Venezuela. ( Green Hulls ) Eclipse also made clay targets. The company was located just north of LA; in Saugas, Cal. Near where I lived in the San Franando Valley.

Joescout.

 

I shot cases of them when I started to shoot trap as they were cheap and I reloaded on a Pacific 366. You could skip the separate resizing station as they did not need resizing and were slick going through the machine. I did have one head separation but do not know the cause. Bought many of them from a nice old trap club in Dutchess county near the Taconic State Parkway. Forget the name but it is gone now unfortunately. tmc

 

I have an unlimited supply from my friend who has 4 washing machine cartons full of them.
I concur with shooting them and reloading them again.