From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There was a notable case involving just this issue some years ago. A bank
clerk was shot dead with a shot gun using Eley cartridges. Some (long) time
later the police raided the perpetrator's house. A box of cartridges was
found and the shot was found to be the same shot in the victim, despite the
fact that the cartridges found were game shooting cartridges, and yet the
wad in the body was a clay shooting plastic wad. How? Because it transpired
that Eley had wrongly loaded that batch of cartridges with the wrong
hardness of shot.
Additionally I understand that a badly sawn off barrel, could leave
striations in some plastic wads. Your best bet would be to go, perhaps,
along the line of cartridge being mis-loaded with a large shot size, and the
police find a box of what appear to be a smaller shot size until an
intelligent police man or woman suggests that the cartridges be opened and
examined.
Robert Churchill also made similar errors with cartridge loading. After WWII
his company bought a reloaded with game shot many WWII "Home Guard" letter
shot and ball cartridges. There is the famous tale recounted by Macdonald
Hastings (in his annotated version of Churchill's "Game Shooting" of some
ball loaded cartridges slipping through the quality control and being used
at a game shoot with amusing effect.
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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