graveyard zombie

Anybody on this forum had any dealings with the Clean Shot pellets before Hodgdon sued them and got them taken off the market? I found a guy who is packing in his gun shop and moving to the sunny and hurricane infested Florida for retirement. He has an unopenedcase of Clean Shot pellets, 12 bottles in the case with 100 pellets per bottle and he has offered it to me for a price that comes to five bucks a bottle. I found a couple of threads from 2002 that discussed these pellets but one was good and one was bad. The bad said it didn't have a long shelf life and it collected moisture once opened. I would appreciate any info good orbad. I know five bucks a bottle sounds good but I've got tobuy the entire case of 12. Thanks.

wabi

I just recently dumped some clean shot powder about the same age. It was still in the sealed factory container, was pretty much a solid lump, and smelled acidic? I decided I would rather dump it as take a chance.

dmurphy317

I have a bottle of those pellets that are maybe 5 years old. I'm guessing your talking about the round ones as opposed to the square ones. They shot OK with one or two pellets but often when using 3 the third one came out more like a flare rather than burning properly and adding to the projectiles velocity. I've not noticed any deteriation of the pellets so far but I also have them in a sealed box and live in a dry climate (NM). I just use them as a bore fouling powder before loading my hunting load. I never did find a good load that I trusted for hunting consistency. I would ask him to let you try out a bottle first before deciding if you want the whole case, or just walk away from the deal. That's my 2 cents.

graveyard zombie

Thanks for the info guys. These are the round pellets and not the sticks they came out with to avoid patent infringement. I mainly want them for hunting so I think I'll stick with my Black Mag3 loose powder while it lasts or with a couple of old boxes of Pyrodex pellets that I still have. He also has some powder in a white metal can, Goex maybe?He only wants five bucks a can for that, too.

falcon

"Anybody on this forum had any dealings with the Clean Shot pellets before Hodgdon sued them and got them taken off the market? I found a guy who is packing in his gun shop and moving to the sunny and hurricane infested Florida for retirement."

Shot up the last of my Clean Shot pellets last summer.Wanted to make Clean Shot pellets work for me but they never did. They would never light reliably when fired inmy Encore and CVA guns.Sometimes the bullet would not even leave the barrel. The only way to get them to light off right was to use an igniting charge of five grains of Pyrodex or CleanShot granular. When ignited that way, two Clean Shot pellets were much more powerful than two Pyrodex pellets,judging from the guns recoil. The hardesti have ever been kicked by a gun was when i used five grains of Pyrodex to ignite three Clean Shot pellets in my CVA Magnum Hunter.

graveyard zombie

Thanks Falcon. I'm 55 yrs old and still 175 soaking wet. I didn't like recoil in my younger days and I really do not like it now. I picked up a good deal on a CVA Wolf that I'll be shooting and it isn't very heavy so I don't plan on using a heavy load even though they say it'll take it. I'm gonna stick with what I've got for now.

MLKeith

I had some of the Clean Shot loose powder and it performed so poorly that Powerbelt bullets would keyhole. CVA said the powder is so slow to ignite that it does not obturate the bullet enough to engage the rifling which is the problem. Personally I would not get the pellets unless you want to use them for a fouling load prior to using some good powder. I'm not sure they would even work for that.