Winchester AA super sport

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tommyb

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I bought a box (250 shells) of these today, and when I was looking online to see if anybody had them cheaper, I stumbled across a thread from shotgunworld.com forums that mentioned them being too high pressured for some guns. I'm fairly sure they'd be fine for my gun, but I'm kind of a noob so I just wanted to make sure.

They are Winchester AA Super Sport. 2 3/4, 1350fps, 1oz, 7.5 shot.
My gun is a standard Remington 870 express with the 3 inch chamber. Almost brand new, only 650 rounds through it. Im good to use these right?
 
Too much pressure for some of the older guns... Guns that were originally designed to use paper hulls which don't build up the kinds of pressures that that AA plastic hulls do...
 
Those are great target shells. Remember to save your hulls. Even if you don't reload, they'll be worth about .05/each to someone who does.

Have fun
 
I only use those shells for the longer targets. I have shot them in a few O/U, no problems. As oneounce stated, save the hulls, then post an ad on shotgunworld or trapshooters and someone will buy them...
 
you should look for some poor chap at the shotgun range whose semi isnt cycling cause their shells power isnt enough to cycle their gun, and give him 2 of your shells. when it cycles, offer to sell your load to him
 
Those shells will be fine in your gun / but you don't need any shell faster than 1200 fps / 1350 fps is a "very fast" shell even with 1 oz it will give you a lot of recoil.

They're more of a "sporting clays shell" than Trap or Skeet - and while I carry a few of these hot loads for long shots ( beyond 45 yards ) - shooting them all day is overkill on typical Skeet or Trap targets.
 
yeah I actually bought them because I plan on reloading one day and I heard AA shells were very good for that. Also I know somebody that paid another shooter like $20 for 200-250 shells so I figured what the hell. I usually dont use over 1200fps but a flat of 250 shells was only like $69 for some reason. Every other box was ringing up $79 so I jumped on it.

Thanks for the input guys. I didnt think I had anything to worry about, but I'm not to proud to double check my ignorance...not when it comes to firearms.
 
AA's are no longer the preferred hull in 12 or 20 ga for reloaders ( they were for many years - but that all changed about 8 years ago ) - when Winchester went to the newer HS hulls.

Virtually everybody I know that reloads - in 12ga especially - has switched to Remington STS or Remington Nitro hulls for reloading / with much better results ( no cracking, etc ) over Winchester hulls these days.
 
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