The other day I was going through some of my shotgun ammo and came across 3 Winchester Supreme HI Impact 12GA 3" BRI slugs. I bought a couple boxes of these for my new rifled barrel for deer season back in 1993 when I was 17, these 3 are all that are left. I used them in my Mossberg 500 that deer season to good effect on my first deer. She was all of 45 yards away and dropped like a sack of bricks at the shot. Just finding them brought back a lot of memories, and how they ushered in the era of high tech shotgun ammo.
I no longer have the original box that they came in and was wondering if anyone remembers the velocity specs for this old ammo. I seem to recall that Winchester advertised 1500fps. I looked at the specs for the current production BRI slugs but those specs seem awfully slow for a 1OZ. slug. Does anyone here still use this slug for deer hunting? And does anyone know why Winchester lowered the velocity of this slug.
I no longer have the original box that they came in and was wondering if anyone remembers the velocity specs for this old ammo. I seem to recall that Winchester advertised 1500fps. I looked at the specs for the current production BRI slugs but those specs seem awfully slow for a 1OZ. slug. Does anyone here still use this slug for deer hunting? And does anyone know why Winchester lowered the velocity of this slug.
