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Old November 7, 2004, 06:48 PM   #1
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Aguila mini-shells

Went to the range today and decided to try out the box of Aguila 12ga mini-slugs I bought at the last gun show I was at, put them through my Winchester Defender 1300 which they claim will work "Flawlessly".....Worst $10 I ever spent, recoil was alot less and accuracy was great but every other round wouldn't eject all the way unless I yanked the fore-end back as fast as I could, and the first time I short shucked it just a little it locked it up for 10 minutes while I tried to get 2 shells out of the reciever...Overall I'd never buy them again unless it was for a single shot shotgun or maybe to teach someone without scaring them with recoil....
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Old November 7, 2004, 07:41 PM   #2
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I thought I had read somewhere that a shotgun designed specifically made for them to work. as short as the round is I would have thought some work have to be done to the shotgun to work with them
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Old November 7, 2004, 07:59 PM   #3
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Here's what their site says...

"Early in our development work it was clear that this new round would hardly cycle semi-automatics while also having difficulties in feeding some pump action shotguns flawlessly. This lead us to consider the development of a weapons system which would include a new shotgun (more about this later) especially designed for the MINISHELL. In the meantime, after some testing we realized that the WINCHESTER™ 1300 series cycle MINISHELLS flawlessly (12 rds in an 18" bbl "Defender"); MOSSBERGS™ and REMINGTONS™ needed a minor modification in their elevators to produce similar results."
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Old November 7, 2004, 07:59 PM   #4
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Thier website says that the only gun that they could get to consistantly work with the rounds was a 1300.
Not that any 1300 with work with these rounds . They also caution that the rounds will not work consistantly in any pumpgun not specifically made for them.
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Old November 7, 2004, 09:13 PM   #5
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About the only legitimate use I've ever seen for those is in Mad Max style box-lock SBS's.

Does that even count as legitimate?
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Old November 7, 2004, 09:20 PM   #6
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I think they'd be fun for plinking in a double barrel shotgun, but I wouldn't trust them in anything else, that said I have an old stevens single shot thats been cut down to minimum legal lenth, they'd be ok in that as full power loads tend to get painful in it
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Old November 8, 2004, 11:13 AM   #7
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My HD shottie is a Stoeger coach gun. I have a 5-loop shell holder on the butt that holds a mini-shell in the top & one in the bottom of each loop. So I pick up my gun & have 12 shots at-hand. The mini-shells shoot & pattern OK - particularly within 15 yards, but if you want to use slugs be sure you know your gun's barrel characteristics.
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Old November 8, 2004, 03:58 PM   #8
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Well, they didn't work worth a damn in my 1300 Winchester...
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Old November 8, 2004, 08:20 PM   #9
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About the only legitimate use I've ever seen for those is in Mad Max style box-lock SBS's.
I read in a gun rag about some guy who made one of those for it. Though I'm inclined to say Max's was perhaps a smaller gauge. I don't have Road Warrior(I think it was) available to look it up.
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Old November 8, 2004, 10:49 PM   #10
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I read in a gun rag about some guy who made one of those for it.
Yea, there was an article, in Rifleman I believe, about the author making a ".72 Magnum handcannon" from a Baikal SxS 12g. He said the recoil with full-power loads was vicious to the point of injury, but that the Mini-Shells seemed made for it. That's kind of where I was coming from in my earlier post.
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Old December 16, 2004, 09:13 PM   #11
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Don' feel badabout the 10 bucks you spent...I bought 3 boxes and wasted 30 bucks!!!
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