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<blockquote data-quote="rjbrooks7" data-source="post: 3515455" data-attributes="member: 4294"><p>A close friend recommended Boss non toxic shells. He’s a very accomplished duck hunter, so I ordered 100 of their shells. They were in my marsh bag, but I hadn’t tried them all year, as I have been shooting Black Clouds. Saturday at dusk, ducks are flying in like crazy. Before the action started, here’s the sequence of events:</p><p></p><p>It’s me and my Super Black Eagle 2, and my best friend with his. We watch geese go down on an adjacent pond. He goes to jump them. I hear a shotgun report some time later. He comes back with a good sized honker in hand. Tells me his gun went “click” and he’s going to the truck to grab the backup gun-a Maxus. As he’s walking the 1/2 mile back, here comes the flight. I had a full legal mag, and approx 4 shells in my wader sling (poor prep on my part). He’s running to get in the action and I unload my gun, drop 2 teals (really odd that teals were coming in at seasons end), promptly reload and drop another. By the time he’s back, I’m out of shells on me, but have more in my marsh bag, and there’s 5 teals dead on the water. All were killed with Black Clouds. Only shells we have left are Boss. That’s what he shot that goose with. As I’m opening the marsh bag, the most birds I’ve ever seen in my life come down on us. I frantically spill all the shells in the bag, and we’re both cramming them in our guns and pulling the triggers as fast as possible. About 2 out of every shell goes “click”, so we cycle the bolts, and keep loading and shooting. This keeps going for a minute or two, until I draw down, pull the trigger and get a puff of smoke out the barrel, but no “boom”. We both looked at each other and said we’re done. </p><p></p><p>After we settle down from the excitement, we start gathering the dead. It’s dark by the time we’ve picked up birds, broke down the blind and loaded the decoys. I take my SBE apart, and there’s a wad approx 1/3 the way down the barrel (the shot fell out when I tipped the gun over-I knew it would.)</p><p></p><p>2 Super Black Eagles and a Maxus that had been cleaned earlier that day and had functioned flawlessly all season had issues with the shells. Either “click” or FTEs and then the dreaded squib. I’ve never experienced a squib until now. </p><p></p><p>We got back to my friends house, cleaned the birds, unloaded and changed, and he fired off an email to Boss. Nothing hateful, just a “hey, thought y’all might want to know...this happened...anyone else having issues?” Crickets. No reply. It’s been almost a week. I’m debating disputing the charge on my card for defective product. </p><p></p><p>Just a heads up. Don’t know if anyone else has tried these. Like I said, a very accomplished duck hunter recommended these shells, and it was seconded by another and more accomplished duck hunter. Think I’ll stick with the Black Clouds...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rjbrooks7, post: 3515455, member: 4294"] A close friend recommended Boss non toxic shells. He’s a very accomplished duck hunter, so I ordered 100 of their shells. They were in my marsh bag, but I hadn’t tried them all year, as I have been shooting Black Clouds. Saturday at dusk, ducks are flying in like crazy. Before the action started, here’s the sequence of events: It’s me and my Super Black Eagle 2, and my best friend with his. We watch geese go down on an adjacent pond. He goes to jump them. I hear a shotgun report some time later. He comes back with a good sized honker in hand. Tells me his gun went “click” and he’s going to the truck to grab the backup gun-a Maxus. As he’s walking the 1/2 mile back, here comes the flight. I had a full legal mag, and approx 4 shells in my wader sling (poor prep on my part). He’s running to get in the action and I unload my gun, drop 2 teals (really odd that teals were coming in at seasons end), promptly reload and drop another. By the time he’s back, I’m out of shells on me, but have more in my marsh bag, and there’s 5 teals dead on the water. All were killed with Black Clouds. Only shells we have left are Boss. That’s what he shot that goose with. As I’m opening the marsh bag, the most birds I’ve ever seen in my life come down on us. I frantically spill all the shells in the bag, and we’re both cramming them in our guns and pulling the triggers as fast as possible. About 2 out of every shell goes “click”, so we cycle the bolts, and keep loading and shooting. This keeps going for a minute or two, until I draw down, pull the trigger and get a puff of smoke out the barrel, but no “boom”. We both looked at each other and said we’re done. After we settle down from the excitement, we start gathering the dead. It’s dark by the time we’ve picked up birds, broke down the blind and loaded the decoys. I take my SBE apart, and there’s a wad approx 1/3 the way down the barrel (the shot fell out when I tipped the gun over-I knew it would.) 2 Super Black Eagles and a Maxus that had been cleaned earlier that day and had functioned flawlessly all season had issues with the shells. Either “click” or FTEs and then the dreaded squib. I’ve never experienced a squib until now. We got back to my friends house, cleaned the birds, unloaded and changed, and he fired off an email to Boss. Nothing hateful, just a “hey, thought y’all might want to know...this happened...anyone else having issues?” Crickets. No reply. It’s been almost a week. I’m debating disputing the charge on my card for defective product. Just a heads up. Don’t know if anyone else has tried these. Like I said, a very accomplished duck hunter recommended these shells, and it was seconded by another and more accomplished duck hunter. Think I’ll stick with the Black Clouds... [/QUOTE]
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