Ballistic tracer platform for shotgun ammunition

A shotgun shell with a chemiluminescent tracer for making shot projectiles visible to a shooter comprising:

• (a) a hollow shotgun shell having a lower end and an upper end;
• (b) a base with primer for ignition located inside the lower end of the shotgun shell;
• (c) propellant positioned proximate to the primer inside the lower end of the shotgun shell;
• (d) a shot cup holding shot pellets, the shot cup having a first end and an opposing second end, the shot cup located above the propellant with the second end of the shot cup proximate the propellant;
• (e) a disk-shaped spacer positioned inside the first end of the shot cup and above the shot pellets held in the shot cup;
• (f) a cylindrical ballistic tracer platform positioned inside the upper end of the shotgun shell and inside the first end of the shot cup, proximate to and above the spacer, the tracer platform comprising a resilient, elastic, translucent container holding a first reactant, a second reactant, a fluorescent dye, and means for physically separating the first reactant from the second reactant and the fluorescent dye prior to their combination resulting in a chemiluminescent reaction, the tracer platform moving separately from the shot cup after leaving a shotgun barrel.

A shotgun shell having no shot, the shotgun shell having a tracer for making shot projectiles visible to a shooter comprising:

• (a) a hollow shotgun shell having a lower end and an upper end;
• (b) a base with primer for ignition located inside the lower end of the shotgun shell;
• (c) propellant positioned proximate to the primer inside the lower end of the shotgun shell;
• (d) a cylindrical wad having a first end and an opposing second end spaced from the second end, the second end of the wad positioned proximate to the propellant, the first end of the wad having a shot holder with petals, the shot holder containing no shot;
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• (e) a cylindrical ballistic tracer platform positioned inside the petals of the shot holder, the tracer platform comprising a resilient, elastic, translucent container holding a first reactant, a second reactant, a fluorescent dye, and means for physically separating the first reactant from the second reactant and the fluorescent dye prior to their combination resulting in a chemiluminescent reaction.