Years ago there was a gentleman who used to come to my club to shoot trap with us on Friday nights and he would buy shotgun shells made in China named I believe "Jialing". He purchased them at a discount wearhouse at the time (around 1998) for around $2.00 to $3.00 a box. If I recall they had a light blue body with a silver base. I have never seen these shotgun shells since. Has anyone on here ever heard of these shotgun shells? Has anyone ever shot them? Were they of good quality?
SHOTGUN SHELLS FROM CHINA...........
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Years ago there was a gentleman who used to come to my club to shoot trap with us on Friday nights and he would buy shotgun shells made in China named I believe "Jialing". He purchased them at a discount wearhouse at the time (around 1998) for around $2.00 to $3.00 a box. If I recall they had a light blue body with a silver base. I have never seen these shotgun shells since. Has anyone on here ever heard of these shotgun shells? Has anyone ever shot them? Were they of good quality?
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I shot a couple of hundred 12G probably 30 years ago at skeet through a Perazzi MX4. The shells had red cases with low "brass" heads. When I fired them there was a hell of a short sharp crack and, as another poster mentioned, it was not uncommon to see sparks come out of the muzzles. I remember shooting a 99x100 in practice with them and not one target was hit hard. It was "bang" and a bit fell off like the patterns were being blown. I was so unimpressed and concerned in case damage occurred to my gun I never shot any of them again. That was the end of my dabbling with Chinese made ammunition.
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You are both right. There was a red one and a blue one. The load data was different for each colored shell. I still have a couple in my shotshell collection. A guy sold them at our local gun show many years ago.
Yes, this is the one thing that I remember everyone saying was that they smelled funny after shooting them and they did not smell like gun powder. Maybe they were finding a way to get rid f their toxic waste.
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China was playing with gunpowder about 500 years before Beretta started making guns 500 years ago.
Kinda surprises me they haven't dominated the shotshell market forever. Must not seem profitable to them or maybe it's just not interesting since there's no technology to steal.
Kinda surprises me they haven't dominated the shotshell market forever. Must not seem profitable to them or maybe it's just not interesting since there's no technology to steal.
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I don't recall ever seeing them in Western Canada.
Wouldn't buy Chinese shells if they were imported.
Wouldn't buy Chinese shells if they were imported.
If I remember they became available right around the Olympics in 1996. They were the cheapest shell on the market and I probably shot 2K-3K rounds of them. Dont remember any problems with them and they were one of the last shells I bought with 20 boxes to the case. I shot the blue ones and bought them at the Darian Gun Club in Wisconsin. Seems like they were around for about a year until the supply ran out.
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China doesn’t have upland game. It’s all captive. No tradition of shotgunning. So no shotgun shells needed.
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Reminds me of when I was shooting on the University Team 50 years ago. I lived in Toronto and got a deal on some .22 LR ammunition from Poland. Greasiest stuff I have ever seen...but $.49/box. Well, tried it out and I bought a crate if it (10k crate IIRC). I got razed by everyone for shooting "commie crap". I was shooting good score with it...better than the CIL stuff we had at the club. The stuff was amazing. Wish I had bought 25 cases of it.
You know if they had China shells at Walmart for $4/box it would fly off the shelf. If it patterned decently, a lot of club shooters would buy it too. We trap shooters are weird....I have seen reloads held together with scotch tape to get one more load our of a hull...LOL
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They are much smarter than that. If there was enough of an export market, they would gear up and supply it. But shipping heavy stuff kills the economics.
BTW, I am surprised someone has not tried to bring in small rifle and pistol primers with our current shortages. If I was younger, and knew someone close to Hunter Biden, I would look into it.
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The Chinese Ring Necked Pheasant was THE upland bird brought in the US and became the most popular game bird nationwide.
The Chinese citizens cannot own private firearms. Thus no proliferation of shotguns/ammunition.
However, you did shoot 99/100! Could have been worse.
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Read what you quoted again. The pheasant is only upland game where it runs wild. Otherwise it is a captive pen bird like chickens, ducks, turkeys, etc.
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