Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Heads up on Kent Fasteel 2.0 Precision Plated Steel defects

The count right now is
1 pump SXP
2 Gas autos SX4 & Remington
3 Inertia autos SBE's
The photos of the guns were taken at a gunsmiths shop. There was no barrel obstructions in those guns.
First shot out of the box.
The SXP could chamber another round after a squib load but the SBE's would never cycle another round after a dud. The gas SX4 may try and cycle after a squib but it probably stove pipe.
There is no new news about the lot number or anything. I think the guy's lawyers told them to STFU and get off the internet.
We're down to phone calls and text messages.
Best advice, if you have some set them aside for now and buy a couple boxes of Federals (my fave but get something other than Kent or Rio).
So far there has been no serious injures other than shredded fingers on their left gloves and sore bruised fingers.
I find it scary, imagine being in a blind with your buddy. A small group of ducks circle your deeks, you give a call and they drop the flaps and drop in. You both shoulder your guns and tap the triggers and BOTH guns blow up!
Talk about fugging up your hunt and season. The move is on now and these poor guys guns are toast.

It reminds me of the German artillery battery at Brecourt Manor.

One would hope they have back up guns. Good to know they saved their fingers.

I agree, it can't be stuck wads in two guns or barrel obstructions in general - unless someone was effing with their guns somehow.

Thanks for posting this.

.."something other than Kent or Rio." What's up with Rio?

Yes, what's this about Rio? They're not manufactured at the same facility are they?
Geno

Tag

Scary that it’s blowing barrels on the first shot.
Found the shells I had that had a recall, it was Hevi-shot Heavy Metal, 3” 12 gauge 1 1/4 oz BB, 1500 FPS.
The wads would split on ignition, loosing enough pressure that sometimes the wad wouldn’t exit the barrel. Couldn’t find a date on the box, probably 10 years old or so.

If Lawyers are involved we can say goodbye to Kent. The vultures are circling.

No word today.
I should mention that our little Facebook group is only 168 hard core waterfowl hunting members. Nobody is a noob.
Six major problems out of only 168 people? I wonder how many other hunters this has happened to?

+3 on the "What's up with Rio?" Just bought a case of their steel #4's for duck season because they pattern well in my Benelli...

That is scary as hell, I reload my own lead for Doves. I guess you can roll your own steel shotshells??

One can and I have.
The problem is that even with special steel shot charge bars the drop with larger steel pellets is very inconsistent. You're best off hand weighing each load. The components are expensive. Special steel wads are crazy expensive compared to a AA target wad. The expense to put together a decent load is 95% of what a box of Winchester Super X, Federal Speed Shock, if you have good hulls. Add in the amount of time to roll up 10 boxes and it really doesn't make sense. I can use that time doing maintenance to my Deeks,waders, boat, motor, truck and the many other things that got fugged up on the last weekend hunt.
Federal and Winchester shot shell have never let me down.
I do hand roll 2-3 boxes of custom 20G ITX-10 #6 loads for my old 20 g SxS. It's fun dropping ducks with that thing like I did when I was a kid shooting lead #6

whackem,

Is this happening with just the 1-3/8 oz loads?

Jeff

While my group has been lucky enough not to deal with these extreme issues, we all pretty much abandoned Kent over the last couple of years as they’re an extremely dirty shell. Some of our guys have gone to the Rio shells, no issues.

Like DakotaDeer, I’m a fan of Fiocchi.

To be clear, I'm only a fan of a specific loading in the Fiocchi line:

1 1/5 ounce, 3" 1550fps plated steel
#3 for ducks only
#2 for mixed bag ducks, pheasants, geese

Sold by Runnings as "Dakota Country", by Scheels as "max" something or other, and by other retailers sometimes as "Warlocks".

Anymore info on this?