Turn Your Truck Shotgun Into Your Home Shotgun: Federal Force X2
Federal’s working double-time to get ammo onto the shelves (and we do mean double).
As anyone could have predicted, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in ammunition shortages as gun owners topped off their stores…but as we’re learning from Federal Ammunition, not only are they still producing ammo, they’re innovating and manufacturing new designs even as I write. As an outdoor writer, I’ve had the opportunity to tour a few ammunition plants. Although everyone has their own proprietary process, there are a couple of consistent points about how ammo is made. First, most of the procedure is automated; and second, although there are a surprising number of people involved in the quality control stage, they’re usually physically placed some distance apart. I imagine most ammunition manufacturers had little (if any) trouble adhering to social-distancing guidelines.
Speaking of social distancing, we outdoorsmen know that the best and easiest way to do social distancing is to be out in Nature. But at the end of the day, most of us are eventually going home to our four walls and family. For those of us who either can’t afford (or can’t be bothered, honestly) multiple firearms for various different uses, one way to integrate our defensive needs afield with our defensive needs at home is with a shotgun. If your truck shotgun happens to be a 12-gauge capable of taking 2 3/4-inch shells, then Federal Ammunition has a new buckshot load called Federal Force X2 that’s going to make your perfect truck gun into your perfect self-defense gun.
In a nutshell, these loads contain nine pellets, all of which split when the shot load disperses. This doubles the number of pellets downrange to 18, which results in 18 separate wound channels. That kind of terminal performance is absolutely going to be a showstopper in a defensive situation, but there’s more. Those 18 pellets are now half as likely to penetrate interior walls as they would have been if you’d just fired a regular buckshot load. So it’s far more effective against an attacker, and far safer for your family.
Federal tells us that their ammunition facility is producing ammunition just as quickly as they can safely do so, and that Federal Force X2 will be shipping in the coming weeks. Would you like to know more? Click here to visit Federal’s site…or check out this cool video!
“That kind of terminal performance is absolutely going to be a showstopper in a defensive situation.” It is the same total weight and energy, it’s no more devastating than a standard buckshot load. You don’t magically get more “terminal performance” when you have the same weight load just twice the amount of projectiles at half the weight per projectile. I will agree the weight and size of each projectile being less will have a lesser degree of over penetration. Sounds like a lot of hype, but I have not tested them, just my opinion.
Looks like some of y’all should definitely consider moving,,, or selling me what you basically are not “allowed to use” I will be willing to test a box against other options, Federal makes such quality product at a decent price, My favorite brand overall, in the top 3 of pretty much any other category I have, Who can argue with xm855, to start with,?,? The list grows from there,
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That’s Funny!
Where I live they have a different name for a TRUCK GUN.
THEY CALL IT A FELONY!!!
Sounds like you need to re-locate.
I’m sorry you have to live there! You have my condolences. From the great state of Texas!
Seems like a solution to a non-existant problem. Just use #4 buckshot.
This seems like an expensive and frankly a gimmicky way to prevent over penetration. Why not just use #8 birdshot or #6 squirrel shot?
Overpenetration inside the home is a serious concern and this is a pretty good solution. Now get Federal to post some videos demonstrating that.
As far as using shotguns as truck guns, unfair I live in a state where my vehicle gun is covered by my Concealed Handgun license. Not Concealed Weapons license. 🙁