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#10MinuteTalk | NAS3 High Pressure Cases

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🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

High pressure cases appear to be the next evolution of cartridge performance. Shell Schock Technologies and their NAS3 cases are at the forefront of the trend. Mark Boardman and Ryan Muckenhirn chat through their experiences with Blackarc Munitions ammo loaded using NAS3 cases. Tune in for their thoughts on the technology itself and what they saw.

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0:00.0

What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic, my good friend Ryan Muck and Hearn across from me.

0:07.4

And boy, Ryan, I tell you what, in today's day and age of life of ammunition,

0:14.8

man, there's a lot of pressure to perform.

0:17.1

Man.

0:17.8

And that's exactly what you're getting with these NAS3 cases.

0:21.6

You're getting high pressure and high performance.

0:26.3

The boardman, in light of recent events, I have to say, that was one of the best intros you've ever done.

0:33.9

Well, I appreciate it.

0:35.1

And, you know, maybe part of that performance of the intro is how

0:40.7

excited I am about, you know, high pressure, this next evolution of cartridge technology as we

0:46.4

kind of talk about it. And these are a cool case that, honestly, Ryan, they were brought to my attention by the podcast listeners

0:57.3

thank you i think you had some prior awareness of them i think after we did all that uh you know

1:03.9

seven millimeter back country peak alloy high pressure uh content and people are like hey you know

1:09.6

what about these what about you know what about these uh n as 3 And I was like, well, in AS3, let me look that up. And so I know that's what I did. Then I went downstairs. I'm like, hey, Ryan, these seem really interesting. And you're like, yeah, I got something cooking. And here we are. We're going to talk about these things. But cool stuff, and frankly, not new.

1:32.1

Like, these are a precursor to even like the, you know, the SIG 277 Fury stuff.

1:37.5

Yep.

1:38.0

Yeah.

1:38.3

First, NAS3 systems that I was made aware of was actually in pistol cartridges.

1:43.2

And I was going through a bunch of stuff at my house.

1:46.9

And it's probably, I don't know, three, four years ago,

1:49.7

I came across two cases of pistol ammo that I had somehow obtained in NAS3.

1:59.2

Set them aside and completely forgot about it,

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