Anyone ever use NobelSport / NSI Italian shotgun shells?

[timk225]

I'm getting a 12 gauge shotgun soon, and have been searching for ammo. Other than a bunch of #6-#7-1/2 shot which wasn't too expensive, I was able to get a couple 10 round boxes of Nobel Sport Italia 00 buckshot. One box is 9 pellet and the other is 12 pellet.

I've just never heard of this brand before, I figure since there's a lot of good Italian guns, their ammo should be just as good as Winchester or Federal or Remington shells, right? Just want to make sure the shells loaded for home defense are good.

[WCMG]

I been using Nobel for years shooting skeet and sporting clay. Never used their 00 Buck ammo, but I would trust it.

[timk225]

I haven't been able to find out what the weight of the 12 pellet 00 buckshot load is, or the 9 pellet load for that matter, but at 1290 fps on the 12 pellet, it made my Mossberg 88 shotgun kick pretty hard!