

Prices start at $6.24 per 10 Winchester Diamond Grade Target If you’re looking for top-of-the-line target loads, look no further than Winchester Diamond Grade. This year, they have two completed loads ready to go: a 2-¾-inch, 12-gauge, 1325-fps, 1-ounce shell loaded with 5, 6, or 7 shot for upland use, and a 3-inch, 12-gauge, 1550-fps, 1-⅛-ounce load of BB, 2, 4, or 5 shot. At last year’s SHOT Show, Rio unveiled the wads only, dissolving in a goldfish bowl in their booth. Loaded with biodegradable wads made of vegetable derivatives, Pro Eco wads break down completely in water after a couple of days. Rio’s BlueSteel Pro Eco ammo may be in all of our futures. Already, coastal watch groups in California are complaining about and documenting plastic wads fired inland washing up on California beaches. My prediction for the 2020s: Plastic wads will become the new lead shot. Rio BlueSteel Pro Eco Ammo Rio’s Pro Eco shotshell wads completely dissolve in water after a couple of days. Here are the shotshell highlights of SHOT 2020. This year’s class has something for everyone: deer hunters get new slugs turkey hunters have two more TSS options target shooters get a premium load home-defenders can shoot innovative new buckshot 16- and 28-gauge hunters have their own mixed-shot upland loads, and waterfowlers get a new bismuth load and what may be the wad of the future.

Ammo makers find new and useful variations on the familiar theme of shot, powder, wads, hulls, and primers every year, and it’s the new shotshells that excite me as I walked the aisles of the SHOT Show recently.
