Mini-shotgun shells

[Rocdenindy]

Anyone have any experience with these? I am looking into them for my single shots or double barrel I just bought to get my wife into shooting shotguns.
Aguila Minishell Ammo 12 Ga 1-3/4 #4 #1 Buckshot 11 Pellets

 

[badapples]

I have never used them. What are you wanting her to shoot? I would think they would still have some recoil to them.

 

[sjstill]

Very low noise/recoil, perfect for a single shot or double. Kinda sucky in pumps.

 

[LEaSH]

I agree with sjstill.

Effective at reasonable range (like inside a house). Cycles less than 50% from my pump shotgun (totally unacceptable). And prefect for a break action 12gauge (like you mentioned on using OP).

Not as cheap as bulk target shot(like you find in walmart, etc), but softer recoiling than that even.

My Aguila mini's have printed on them 7x4B+4x1B So not sure if the same, but they probably are similar.

 

[Rocdenindy]

I have some single shot break opens and just got a Chinese (didn't realize it before I traded) double barrel shotgun. Any idea also where to find them in stock. Midway says next May.

 

[sjstill]

Every place I googled was out of stock. I'll check a couple distributors tomorrow and see what I can dig up.

 

[LEaSH]

I'd give you some of mine, OP. I don't need them for HD or anything.

I only have a handful left - not even a full box or so, but it's not really worth it to meet unless you really need some for her.

 

[Rocdenindy]

Thanks for info and checking on stock. I am looking into them mainly so the wife doesn't get put off by the recoil. She is not a gun person at all and I am worried that too much recoil and she won't want to shoot again.

 

[Tactically Fat]

My first 870 would feed them... At least it did when I did it slowly on a "square range" type set up. Never tried to run it hard.

If you get some - make sure they feed reliably in your gun before you just load it up and set it in a corner "just in case".

 

[45fan]

My first 870 would feed them... At least it did when I did it slowly on a "square range" type set up. Never tried to run it hard.

If you get some - make sure they feed reliably in your gun before you just load it up and set it in a corner "just in case".

They work great in single/double barrel situations, and have been almost prefect in the wifes Winchester pump gun. As far as recoil/noise, they are nearly the same as shooting a 22 LR, and noise is not as sharp, if that makes sense.

They seem to have plenty of punch for in home, SD use, but you do loose a bit of payload in a shell that small. In our home, the first round in the wife's shot gun is this round, followed by a stack of low recoil OO buck.

 

[sjstill]

Well, none of our distributors carry the little buggers.

Had a 16 y/o girl in my NRA class Saturday. I broke out my 870 with Fiocchi low recoil slugs, and she didn't have a problem with that combo. We have some some here at the shop if you want to give them a try.

I *may* have a handful of the mini's at home, have to go through my stash....

 

[Rocdenindy]

Thanks for checking for me. I need to try out the range so I will look into the low recoil rounds while I am there. Thanks.