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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The Chinese Ring Necked Pheasant originally DID run wild in China and was domestically raised by the Chinese for a food source.
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The way the targets broke................it wasn't far off 79x100However, you did shoot 99/100! Could have been worse.
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When I lived in China I would see them from time to time in the farmlands north of Beijing. Made a few trips to various locations of the great wall.
Plus I saw them wild when I went way north to the Ice Festival in Harbin.
There are most definitely wild pheasants there. And in Japan, and Korea, and Taiwan, from what I understand.
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As often as China gets destroyed by another nation, as recently as WW2 and going back to the Mongols, they aren't very good with gunpowder, are they?
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Why concern themselves with gunpowder? They can acquire it worldwide.
They excel at espionage, bribery, biological warfare, monetary market manipulation, intellectual property theft, suppression of human rights and anything else a machine like communist system does.
They excel at espionage, bribery, biological warfare, monetary market manipulation, intellectual property theft, suppression of human rights and anything else a machine like communist system does.
Probably a lot of "incentive" for her to win, so she doesn't have to be "re-educated".
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Manufacturing overseas only works with items that have a big labor component and one largest enough to offset shipping costs. Ammo production is highly automated so there would be little to no price advantage to produce ammo in a low labor cost country.
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Do you know if she used the same shells as those that were being exported and subsequently available over the counter?
What's been your own experience of shooting them?
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No shotgun shells needed?
China's "upper middle class" makes $10,000 USD per year. It has 373 million people (more than the entire US population) living on < $2,000 per year.
I wonder what their tradition and need for 100" laser TV's is? ya think Hisense is making $4,000 laser TV's for their home market?
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Nah, they have this annoying habit of leap-frogging. They jumped right over the whole gunpowder thing and went straight to nuclear armament. I'm not worried by them but we haven't played cowboys and Chinese yet.
In the 1990's Kodak decided to invest a $billion or so in China. Management had this vision of selling the Chinese on black and white photography, eventually giving them color photography and making millions along the way.
Much to Kodak's dismay, a few years later the Chinese came out of their grass huts carrying cell phones with digital cameras.
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To be honest mate, I would doubt they were the same shells that were exported down here to Australia. The ones I saw here had enough variations in their noise to play all the notes in our National Anthem
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I guess you missed the generations of subjugation by foreign powers, the Rape of Nanking comes to my mind.
Chinese are kind of like the Germans or the French, they cause problems but ultimately lose.
Then again with communism overtaking america due to bad Chinese food, you never know these days.
China could have been so much more, bit is largely a historical embarrassment. Well, they can fix that when they overrun us like cockroaches and re write history.
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Haha! After shooting them I wrote an article in one of the mags referring to "snap, crackle and pop ammunition".
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We recently interviewed the lady that won that Olympic Gold Medal with Jailing ammunition. The part I found most interesting is that the Chinese Government took the gun off her that she won the gold medal with and destroyed it.
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That's amazing! Here's another little story but with a different outcome..........after Danish skeet shooter Kjeld Rasmussen won the Gold medal in the Moscow 1980 Olympics shooting a Vostok O/U, the Soviets were so pleased they made a copy of his gun but with the Olympic gold rings on the sides of the action body and with extra fancy walnut on the stock and fore-end and presented it to him. A couple of years later we were all shooting in Montecatini and after shooting for the day we climbed on the bus with the Danes going back into town to our respective hotels. We generally had a few beers with our mates from other teams at the shooting ground at the end of the day to unwind. Kjeld must have been feeling particularly 'unwound' because he left him gun on the bus! Fortunately one of my team mates spotted it and and rescued it before it finished up God knows where.
The pictured Jialing shells are the exact shells that i remember. Thanks for posting the pictures.
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