Baschieri & Pellagri - The spring period still maintains hunting liveliness in the minds of the adepts of the verb of Diana, but it is never under the energetic and substantial push of the autumn time for which many devote themselves to the platform. Several years ago, standing there in the presence of friends or, worse, strangers to exhibit the few abilities to break those quick targets was seen as an annoying punishment, where the fear of not catching us far outweighed the pleasure of firing a few shots. Then fortunately things changed, for once for the better, and the skills of the shooters, the functionality of the weapons, the yield of ammunition. Gone are the times when these were the occasions to finish what was left in the cartridge belt at the end of the season, with 4 and 2 hare badly thrown in the chase of a clay pigeon: today things are conducted with knowledge and skill and it is it owes in particular to the manufacturers of shotguns with specific proposals aimed at the sporting specialty, the one that comes closest to hunting shooting and therefore gathers a large number of enthusiasts.
The availability of many shooting ranges, the expansion of presences and therefore the social value of finding oneself with one's fellowmen to whom to expose certainties, doubts and hypotheses on the common passion, has worked as a coagulant for a number of continuously growing practitioners. The cartridges are no longer leftovers because the competitive spirit, a certain willingness to spend, the prudence of the proposals of the manufacturers and a dense array of well-informed gunsmiths who often stand side by side with their customers on the platform the magic of a sport where the competitive component does not tarnish the fun that is and must remain the main thrust of the whole business.
Baschieri & Pellagri is a manufacturer too well known to be here to praise it, it is one of the various Italian companies that are the pride of the sector with those technical specifications that, at the end of the day, have allowed to break that extra clay pigeon and therefore to return calm and happy to family life or , on certain occasions, to climb one of those three steps so coveted by agonists.
The product that we offer today is decidedly specific, precisely because we believe that specialization is the foundation of a good and gratifying success: here is the Sporting & Compak Long Range cartridge in 12 gauge with 70 mm case and 12 mm caseback, loaded with the lamellar powder G2000 and 28 g of 7½ black tempered Pb pellets, heat-sealed star hem and PC-type cup wad with opening notches and the valuable characteristic of being photodegradable, a very appreciable peculiarity to avoid much of the recovery work .
The powder used and above all the famous Gordon System cartridge case with a particular profile internal bushing, soften the effect of the recoil allowing the shooter prolonged shooting sessions with minimum fatigue. The ballistic data show a V / 0 with a full barrel of about 405 m / sec and a pressure of 630 bar. There cartridge is offered to the public in packs of a captivating red color: usually the contents of 25 pieces or, for greater practicality, of 250.