REMINGTON PLASTIC SHELLS
 

Are all the current Remington shotgun of similar construction and thus can all be reloaded with the same recipes? I am looking at load data for 16 gauge 2 3/4" Remington hulls and the site only lists "2 3/4" REMINGTON SP PLASTIC SHELLS". I can not find a specific reference to "SP" shells. Just the usual STS, Game Loads, etc. I am a bit confused. I would like to use the Black Game Loads shells if I can safely do so. Thanks, Steve

I've got ots of the black RGLs if you need any Steve.
I've loaded all Remington the same, but loading light loads.

I load all the Remington hulls the same.

The following are all the same internal volume, just a different color; some smooth and some ribbed on the outside. STS, Nitro27 and Nitro Sporting Clays have brass heads, the others are steel heads.
STS (Green smooth)
Nitro27 (Gold smooth)
Nitro Sporting Clays (Gold smooth)
American Clay and Field (Transluscent green smooth)
Gun Club (Green ribbed)
Game Load (Black ribbed)

There has been some chatter over on 16GA.com about the recent black RGL being loaded in Federal hulls. I cut an older RGL (perhaps 8-10 years old) hull and a fairly recent Federal 16ga. hull. The older RGL had a plastic base wad and the Federal had their typical fiber base wad. I don't have any recent RGL hulls to inspect. If you have recent RGL hulls you might inspect the base wad as to whether it has a plastic or fiber wad. Might provide good info.

The older RGL hulls are only good for 3-5 reloads, at least in my experience.

I forgot to note that these are for 12 and 20 gauge hulls. The 16 gauge are straight-walled hulls.

My recipe is for 16 gauge and calls for the Remington hulls.,

Today's 20 gauge shells are required to be yellow. If I remember correctly, Federal made a promotional run of 20 gauge "ladies shells" which were pink. They had to recall all of them because of the color

The new 16ga Remington Game Loads are the same as the Federal hulls.

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Steve, the SP Remingtons were made back in the 60's and 70's and perhaps a bit later. Here's how a 12 ga box was labeled.

Sorry, I don't have a fired hull to look at its base wad. I'm not certain but I'm fairly sure the SP 16's were made in the standard Remington green color, not purple. Also, I’m thinking the hulls had a separate base wad and were not compression formed. Again all this is conjecture.