Pro 12GA Shotgun Safety Trainer Cartridge Dummy Rounds Close to Real Weight, 12 Pack

Feels like real shotgun shells

Rapid cycled 24 rounds through my 12 ga Maverick 88 pump, no issues with feeding or ejection. Hull portion is made from rigid plastic and base is some sort of ferrous steel (sticks to magnet). Pretty durable, haven't even see any firing pin indentation on the rubber "primer" from dry firing. Same OAL and weight as a Federal Premium slug shell I pulled from the box. I check the dimensions of one with my digital caliper - Rim diameter/thickness, mouth diameter are within SAAMI specs for 12 gauge cartridge. The base diameter is 0.795-0.796" - just slightly undesized compare to the sample Federal Premium shotshell (0.805"). Weight is 42.4 grams, about the same as the Federal slug shell (41 g). These seem to be well made dummy shotshells with proper dimensions. A dozen for $26 is well worth the money. And I dig the white colour. Edit: After a while, I've noticed a fair bit of wear and scratching on the bottom edge of my ejection port from cycling these through my gun. This is on a steel receiver of a Mossberg Maverick. My guess is the steel base and rim hasn't been annealed. Be warned, this might lead to excessive wear on aluminum receivers.

For the price, you get more snap caps per dollar than anything else I have found. There are extra primer inserts included in the box if the rubber wears out. The head of each round is made of light metal (brass or whatever the chrome equivalent is) as you would expect, and the case is a firm, thick plastic that is sturdy enough for under-stress loading practice, but just soft enough not to risk damaging anything you would be shoving these shells into. As a whole, these are very solid with a good weight to them. Loading is as smooth as doing it with real shot shells. However, in my limited experience, practice unloading via a pump shotgun did not go well at all. I have two brand new Winchester XSP Black Shadow 3" chamber 12 gauges that were recently purchased for my sons to use. These snap caps were intended to be the training rounds for loading and unloading practice. However, when pumping the shotguns to eject these snap caps, each one remained in the receiver and had to be manually extracted with fingers. I actually had one snap cap somehow flip around 180 degrees in the receiver rather than eject. My younger son managed to develop a method of twisting and shoving the gun whilst pumping which 'aided' the ejection process, but I did not encourage his newly discovered technique of "throwing out" the spent shell, lol. Just bad form. Both guns were brand new with sharp extractors. I ran standard clay, field and magnum loads through both guns, and both ejected spent and loaded real shells (when unloading) with ease. I've seen trick shot guys on YouTube use this exact same gun to eject spent shells high into the air then shoot those spent shells with the next shot, so the problem isn't with these guns. Perhaps the lip on these snap caps needs to be enlarged? Perhaps I'm misinformed about how shotgun snap caps are supposed to perform (I only have experience with pistol snap caps). Are they really not supposed to eject? I'm not sure. Hopefully the manufacturer / seller will reach out to me and make this right or at least provide some feedback as to where the issue might be. The product has a very solid feel, and I can tell much thought went into the materials and manufacturing process. However, if the end result is a product that only performs half of the loading, firing and ejecting cycle, it really isn't hitting the mark IMHO.

Tactical shotguns are 'Hungry, Hungry Hippos' and your dryfire practice needs to learn how to feed them. Buy enough to train loading the gun from the gun saddles. Then load the saddles from dump pouches on your belt or direct into the tube (keep specialty rounds on the stock a different color.) Two folding dump pouches can be on your sling ready to accommodate two boxes each of standard fire power that you can put on you belt. Specialty rounds get a special case in a special place of your hip. Dry fire through your load out, adding specialty rounds here and there. I suggest an 'ammo box crate carrier on wheels like a hand truck' to move heavy shotgun ammo around. You don't carry it, but you want it staged for resupply and bottle neck and/or last stand positions.

On the fence about these. The good thing about them is also the bad thing about them. They are weighted to simulate a live load, but (I think) because they are much heavier than a spent shell they don't eject reliably. It helps if you pause a moment between moving the action back and forward and you move the action forcefully. Maybe that could teach you to be more deliberate with your movement, or perhaps practice clearing jams. But I see this as a bug, not a feature, as I don't have any such issues with live loads.