Cheap walmart shotgun shells

does walmart make ammo? or do they sell name brand ammo, winchester, federal, remington? my walmarts don't sell ammo or guns at all. i have to buy from a few different private shops or dicks sports. i didn't have any trouble so far with remington express buckshot or fine shot,game loads, federal game shock,winchester super x buckshot or fine shot. 1 jammed shell that took a few seconds too cool before ejecting. an estate #7.5 1 and 1/8 oz. target load. happend a few weeks ago. only jam ever so far, i shot 15 of them and then shot number 16, it jammed. hopefully no jam ever again.
 
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he said winchester.walmart does not make any thing, they sell goods.
se if you can lift the extractor next time.check the chamber and see if it is clean cleaning alone may not take the plastic out of the chamber:rolleyes::D.
 
It was actually Federal Game Shock #6 hi brass that caused the problem for me. I clean my guns every time I shoot or close to it. It possibly could have gotten a little fouled because of shooting a lot rounds at a time. But IMO it was the shells. They shouldn't have swelled like they did. It could have been just a bad batch. I'll just have to keep shooting through the gun to see if the problem repeats I guess.
 
If it works who cares what kind of wad it has.

I do not really care either, I just wondered if they were still using the fiber wads in them or gone to plastic. Its been several years.
 
My brother has the same problem in his 88 12 gauge. Once every 20-30 shells he'll get a jam. Hell, he's even had a jam AND misfire at the same time multiple times with the Federal 100 box lol Never a problem for me and my 870 though no matter what's being ran through it.
 
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I shoot lots of Scrap (that's wobble trap from skeet stations 1-7) where the claybirds are broken at 30-50 yards and I can't tell the difference between, high end AA or STS shells and cheap walmart stuff. Neither can I tell any difference between walmart's and hand loads using all the best components. I mainly use a Model 1100 and have never had any trouble with what walmart sells.

I pay $5.55 a box, tax included, for walmart Federal 12 gauge, 3 dram eqv. with 1 1/8 oz of shot which is almost 50 cents a box cheaper than I can reload using free hulls and shot at $50 per 25# bag!

I also shoot a 16 gauge SxS at sporting clays. Reloading makes more sense as 16 gauge shells are almost $10 a box if you can find them.
 
The black remington promo shells sold for dove season do not work real well in my 11-87 everything else from wally world does.
 
Never had a problem with #7, 8 or buck/slugs bought at Wally World. Have run thousands of rounds of 12 gauge 2-3/4" #7 shot for skeet, trap and training.
 
I just wanted to point out that I wasn't making any claim about the quality of ammo at WW. I just know I had a couple of jams from stuff I got there. It could have just been a bad batch of shells for all I know. I've been shooting stuff from the same box since then with no more problems.
 
"Does Walmart make shells...?"
No major retailer makes any product. If it has their name on the box it is just a "private label" item made under contract for the retailer by a manufacturer. Walmart does not sell any ammo labeled as their own that I ever seen...
"Do they still have the fiber wad...?"
All the ammo I fired in the last many years has had a poly wad...
Brent
 
WalMart doesn't get cheaper shells than other stores. There isn't any second rate ammo that goes into any of their stores that I am aware of. You get what you pay for just like when you shop elsewhere. The less expensive shells they used to sell that were 1oz light loads just didn't have enough shot in each shell to effectively kill much at farther distances like heavier 1 an 1/8oz shells would. It's kind of like hunting with a 410 vs a 12GA. It's a no-brainer which one will effectively kill more at farther distances consistantly. Go try dove hunting with a 410 and see how well you do.
 
WalMart doesn't get cheaper shells than other stores. There isn't any second rate ammo that goes into any of their stores that I am aware of. You get what you pay for just like when you shop elsewhere. The less expensive shells they used to sell that were 1oz light loads just didn't have enough shot in each shell to effectively kill much at farther distances like heavier 1 an 1/8oz shells would. It's kind of like hunting with a 410 vs a 12GA. It's a no-brainer which one will effectively kill more at farther distances consistantly. Go try dove hunting with a 410 and see how well you do.

a 1oz. load will kill most upland birds as well as 1-1/8 loads; there are a lot of us who use .410's for dove and quail - at the appropriate distance, though I prefer a 28 gauge - it's not the size of the payload, but how well it patterns in the gun
 
Well I shot enough 1oz loads to know there isn't enough shot to say what I said. The same goes for a 410. Not knocking it, but it's a kids gun to start out on. Not much use for anything else. A 410 just doesn't have much practical use from what I have seen.
 
The more shot you can put downrange will and can increase your practical shooting range by quite a bit. The same can be said for heavy turkey loads. The theory that a great pattern from a light shooting load or smaller gage shotgun doesn't hold much water when you can go heavier and put a lot more shot in the game even though your pecentage of pattern stays the same vs one gage to the next. The day I hunt turkeys with a 410 even if it were legal, will be the day I quit hunting turkeys. I'll leave my Mossberg 835 to do that. I've tested enough shotguns and various loads and choke tubes of all makes to know enough about effective percentage shotgun patterns. The 1oz loads don't make the cut. 1/8oz more of shot is huge when it comes to performance of delivering a more effective killing pattern from what I have seen.
 
Well I shot enough 1oz loads to know there isn't enough shot to say what I said. The same goes for a 410. Not knocking it, but it's a kids gun to start out on. Not much use for anything else. A 410 just doesn't have much practical use from what I have seen.

Actually, a .410 is an expert's gun due to the tiny shot amount and small pattern area - and it does quite well in the hands of an experienced shooter on quail and dove.....agreed not for turkey

I used to hunt wild phez in ND with my 20 gauge SXS, 7/8 oz #6 - worked every time I needed it to; but then I don't take 50yd shots at phez, and personlly think it's not the best choice
 
Technically a 410 is not what I call an experts shotgun, but rather a gun that really limits your killing power except at close ranges. Yes you do have to be more on with your shot pattern at quail and dove if you were actually going to try and use it to hunt them with, but there are way better choices as for gages and better suited standing still game as for using it what it was intended for. You can use light gages to kill, and some like them, but I'll stick to the 12GA as for the better shotgun to get the job done on game at farther distances.
 
Super-Dave says;

Cheap walmart shotgun shells

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I have heard that the winchester shotgun shells they sell at walmart are of such cheap quality that they tend to stick in the barrel after they have been fired. Is this true?

I see some very good prices on winchester buck shot and slugs at walmart and was wondering if they are safe to buy or not.


What do you say?

Would you trust this ammo for hunting, or even for self defense?



In my opinion they are not cheap anymore. They were $4.79 a box not too long ago. They are the same Winchester shells that every one else sells. I`ve shot thousands of Winchester shells from Wal-Mart with no problems. And I`m using those same shells to reload them again. ;)
 
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