Patent ID: 8561542
Filing Date: 2013-10-22
Classification: F42B

Abstract:
1. A first shot-gun shell for hunting a game animal which has an edible flesh of a known color, for determining whether a shooter, who discharged said shot-gun shell at a taken animal, actually struck the animal, and to facilitate locating projectiles from the shot-gun shell which are lodged in said flesh of said animal and thereby facilitate removal of said projectiles from said flesh prior to consumption, comprising: a head; a case; a primer; a powder charge; a plurality of metal projectiles having an etched outer surface and having a coating adhesively attached to said etched outer surface, wherein said coating is heat resistant; is sufficiently durable to remain visible after the projectiles have been discharged from a shot-gun, strike and embed in the flesh of said animal; is non-toxic to an animal who may be wounded with metal projectiles having said coating; is non-toxic to an animal who may eat metal projectiles having said coating; is non-harmful to the environment and has a color which is selected from the group of colors consisting of red, blue, green, yellow, orange and purple and is chosen from said group of colors so as to be a color, which is different from the color of the flesh of the animal at which said shot-gun shell is to be discharged and also different from a color of projectiles of a second shot-gun shell, which is also different from the color of the flesh of the game animal to be fired at by another shooter; and, a closed end.