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Originally Posted by Frank Srebro
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.
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The "SP" hull was introduced in 1961, still using fiber wads but with a plastic H-Wad replacing the nitro card. From the 1961 Remington catalog --
1961 introduction of SP hulls, H-wad.jpg
Here is a cut-away from the 1962 Remington catalog --
1962 Cut-Away of the New SP Hull.jpg
The Power Piston plastic wads were introduced in the Remington Skeet & Trap loads for 1964 and in the Remington Express loads in 1965.
From the end of WW-II to the 1960s the paper Remington Express load numbers were prefaced RX. With the introduction of the SP hull the load numbers were prefaced with SP. I have boxes of Remington Express 16s and 20s well into the Lonoke, AR years and the load numbers are prefaced SP.
What hull are these from a recent Remington ad --
Remington Express XLR 16-gauge.png