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Talyn

Talyn

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Federal's New Upland Paper Loads​

Federal has started selling new hunting shotshells made with paper hulls.

During the SHOT Show of 2025, they announced the new Federal Upland Paper lineup, available in 20 gauge or 12 gauge loads. For now, only 2.75-inch shells are available, with a choice of #4, #5 or #6 shot. They’re packaged in 25-round boxes.

And as these are marketed towards upland hunters, they use hardened, copper-plated lead shot, not non-toxic material such as steel or TSS—non-tox loads aren’t required in most jurisdictions for busting pheasants or partridge.

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Fudd Friday: Go Old-School With Federal's New Upland Paper Loads

I don’t remember the first time I ever shot a rifle, but I remember the first time I ever shot a shotgun.As a teen, one of my friends found an ancient stash of 16 gauge paper shotgun shells in his basement (probably belonging to his great-grandfather).We managed to also get our hands on that...
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"In other words: Don’t shove these in a dank, moldy corner of your basement with high humidity, and don’t have them hanging off your shell belt as you trudge the fields in a cloudburst, if you want reliable performance. You don’t want a squib load, and you don’t want a swollen paper hull jamming up your auto-loader mid-hunt."

Okay. Yet I still have paper shells that granddad, dad, or I bought and the last time I fired some, about a year ago they still worked fine. Trust me no one in my family tree took special care of anything, guns, ammo, knives, pulp hooks... they were tools to be used, but not abused.
 
I have a few old paper shells i bought as a kid, not many though. where i can see them being a good thing is they break down over time. i have dug many a round of the paper shell ones metal detecting and all was just the brass part left. i've dug many of the other and they never break down. if i remember right the paper was wax coated to prevent moisture from affecting them. Ok that was the greenie part of me coming out. lol
 
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