Vintage Russian STEEL Case 12ga. Shells - We test them 

The writing on the box reads:

WOW! I remember when I was teenager in Russia in early 90s I had one of those spent cases from somewhere and we used it as a slide (bottleneck) to play blues-slide style tunes on guitar, finger fits inside and it is long enough to go over whole width of guitar stock.

You can also stick a magnet to a lot of modern Federal and Winchester 12 ga. “brass”. It even rusts in the rain these days, they just don’t make brass like they used to.

When I was younger, In Ukraine. I remember every year before hunting season when the adults would start the reloading process. Everything reloaded by hand. Those were exciting times because you know the next morning you will be up early :) We used these exact same shells over and over every year.

I lived in the Czech Republic for ten years and my cleaning lady was Russian, great woman, I still send her cash today, she deserved it, but her teeth were all steel. Unnerving, but that's Eastern Europe for ya👍🇺🇸❤️🇨🇿

Kermit voice, my bad...

a friend of mine bought a whole brick of the steel case .22 made in Russia and had a 90% dud rate in the first two boxes. I asked him if he would sell them to me to put in my collection and he said "if your gun can set them off you can have them" I loaded them up in my 9 shot H&R 922 from around 1920 and every one went off then I picked up the duds and fired about 70 out of 90.....free .22s

Man’s Kermit impression is on point

It’s like Jim Henson was resurrected from the grave and he is a police officer in California yes it is very Strange days we live in

About 50 years ago I had a harebrained idea that I was gonna start a bullet collection. I started going to gun shows and buying unusual rounds 2 at a time so I could unload one bullet and a loaded round next to it. I started talking to a few individuals. Well a very nice man said to me, you want to do what? do you have any idea how many different bullets there are in the world do you own a museum, because that’s what it’s gonna take you’ll need a library just have pictures of them all, and reality struck. So I started specializing in just American military and 12 gauge, well then 16 gauge, 20 gauge, 410, 8 bore rounds that were used in the cement factory for blasting the slag from the kelms. Of course I realized I would achieved my goal but I did acquire a nice collection. You sure so much with us I thought I would share something with you no matter how dumb it is thanking that I could collect every bullet in the world but I was only 19 years old then. By the way I have this really neat collection of wooden bullets Yep that was a thing. But I’ve never seen a steel 12 gauge shell something new to me thank you for sharing once again

The Kermit was a nice touch. Hope Danny is doing well, let him know he is in our prayers.

The beauty of these cartridges is that they can be equipped over and over again. All you need is primers, gunpowder, shot, buckshot or a bullet to choose from. Wads can be made out of paper, and at the end everything can be filled with paraffin from a candle.

You’re going to reload these, right?

Oh wow! An Iowa-class reference!

“Made in Russia” was a good indication of post 1991 manufacture.

Just caught the end of the live stream and im still chuckling at Berm-It the Frog at the trigger.

Thanks for making me me feel old Jeff. I remember 1992. So I guess maybe I'm vintage.

The Battleship New Jersey Museum channel is amazing. Kudos to the curator for going the extra mile.

No such thing as failure, every day is a good day at the range with Jeff & Co!

Liked the Kermit the frog impersonation. Hopefully he has other voice impressions in his catalog and he can give officer Gregg a run for his comedy money.