It's a sad time, but FYI OSAGE ROOST will be pulling the plug at the end of the month. It's been a great 15 years since the start, but it's hardly ever used now and time to move on!
Leave me save you a lot of trouble the problem is the long beard ammunition. I have never shot a shell in any of my guns that wouldn shoot on zero until I was dumb enough to get a half a case of the Long beards. They shot a good 10" high in the super x 2 31/2". In the model 12 3" they shot 4" low. In the 1100 3" with a custom Bansner barrel the first shot blew the barrel up. There is a 2 1/4 inch x 3/8 wide barrel rupture and the rib was blown straight up in the air.The shot lok must have never fractures and everything went down the barrel until it hit the choke all in tact and then blew up.I have contacted Olin Winchester and left messages 2 times with customer service as instructed. I have filled out the forms on the winchester web site 2 times. Today I went to bass pro and they are looking into it with there sales rep. but still no contact from anybody.A friend of mine is having the same problem with the long beard shells. He has tried them in 6 different turkey guns but as of yet didnt blow a barrel. Finallt he took a gun and put adjustable sights on it and adjusted it to the load. Now he is afraid to shoot it because of my mishap. Winchester will not respond is it because there is big problems? I am sure my barrel isnt the only one to rupture. If anybody knows a contact at winchester I would certainly appreciate talking to them before somebody is hurt or worse! JRH
Thanks for the reply however Olin contacted me at 7:30 pm. last night after 3 days of phone calls and emails. Yes there is no doubt it was the shell the barrel was checked and clear before the shell was fired. The gun and a half a case of Long Beard ammunition was shipped to them this morning. Had I not been contacted last night I would have followed your advise.Thanks.Jon
Quote from: Turkeybuster on March 21, 2014, 10:31:01 AMThanks for the reply however Olin contacted me at 7:30 pm. last night after 3 days of phone calls and emails. Yes there is no doubt it was the shell the barrel was checked and clear before the shell was fired. The gun and a half a case of Long Beard ammunition was shipped to them this morning. Had I not been contacted last night I would have followed your advise.Thanks.Jon Thats good to hear and be sure and post up anything that you can disclose..
Holy smokes Jon I just saw this... I just bought 3 boxes and now I'm scared. makes me wonder if another barrel bursting was caused by them...ugh... maybe I should stick with the thugs!
Reports are that Hevi changed the recipe for their shells and they aren't getting good numbers anymore.
