Description
A-Zoom 12 Gauge Shotgun Snap Caps are solid aluminum dummy shells, two to a pack. Two is exactly the right number for a double gun, where the whole point is being able to close the action and let both hammers down without hurting anything.
How A-Zoom 12 Gauge Shotgun Snap Caps Are Built
Each shell is CNC machined from solid aluminum billet to 12 gauge dimensions and hard anodized. There is no plastic hull and no crimped end to split, so nothing swells, deforms or leaves a torn body behind after hundreds of cycles.
The rim end carries a proprietary polymer cushion in place of a primer, rated by A-Zoom past three thousand strikes. On a shotgun with a heavy hammer and a long pin, that cushion is doing real work every single time you drop the hammer.
Because A-Zoom 12 Gauge Shotgun Snap Caps are dimensionally correct, they chamber and extract exactly like real shells. That is what makes an ejector check or a function test meaningful rather than approximate.
Why a Pair Suits a Double Gun
Over-unders and side-by-sides are the guns that most need snap caps and need exactly two. Letting the hammers down on empty chambers is what breaks slender rebounding pins, and a pair of A-Zoom 12 Gauge Shotgun Snap Caps turns that into the safe routine the manual actually asks for.
Ejector timing is the second job. Opening the action on inert shells shows whether both barrels are lifting or throwing in sync, and unlike live shells you can pick these up off the grass and do it again.
Trap and skeet shooters use them for a third reason. Practising the mount with an inert shell chambered lets the gun handle at its normal weight and balance, which matters far more on a shotgun than it does on a rifle.
- Gauge: 12 gauge
- Quantity: 2 per pack
- Construction: CNC machined solid aluminum, hard anodized
- Primer: proprietary polymer dead cap, rated 3,000+ dry fires
- Design: one piece, no plastic hull to split or swell
- Uses: dry fire practice, hammer release, ejector and extractor checks, safe storage
- Made in the USA
- Manufacturer item: PA12211 / UPC 666692122118
Field Notes
Storing a break gun with the hammers down on snap caps rather than cocked keeps the springs relaxed through an off season. On a gun with hand-fitted locks, that is worth doing properly.
They are also the right prop for mount and swing practice. Completing the whole motion through the trigger press with inert shells chambered builds the habit correctly rather than stopping short of the shot.
The polymer cushion is a consumable. When the face is deeply cratered and stops rebounding, retire that shell rather than continuing to strike a dead cushion.
Need enough to fill a tube magazine instead? The same gauge is stocked as A-Zoom 12 Gauge Snap Caps in a blue aluminum five pack, and the line covers 20 gauge as well. Construction details are published by A-Zoom.
For over-under and side-by-side owners who just need a pair, A-Zoom 12 Gauge Shotgun Snap Caps are the right buy. MAG5 Firearms stocks them as manufacturer item PA12211 in the two pack.
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