16ga Remington hulls ?

[Jack Kuzepski]

Daryl and Dave,

My experience with 16 ga Game loads mirrors yours with the number of times a hull can be loaded, again I load 7/8 oz of 8's with light poweder charges. I must have some older black Game Loads as some have 8 point crimps, although most have the 6pt crimp.

Jack Kuzepski

[Autumn Daze]

Jack, The Peters game load hulls are 8 point crimp. If I am going to reload a bunch of Peters hulls I just change my crimp starter to the 8 point one. No muss no fuss.

[Jack Kuzepski]

That shows just how observant I am. If it is a black hull I just assumed it was a Remington Game load, never looked at the hull base. Thanks.


Jack

[Duckman]

I've loaded quite a few 16s and have had good luck with the chedite hulls or federal game load purple ones, they seem to take the same loads equally well.

[John Farrell, Charter Member #33]

I load a variety of 16 gauge hulls and none of them are consistent in their dimension, which is supposed to be 2 3/4". The difference runs from 20 to 30 thousandths short. Never oversize in length. The difference is not significant enough to cause reloading problems. My supply includes Federal paper and plastic, Winchester CF and PF, Remington black and Rem green papers.

[Autumn Daze]

I don't know John. I have a few thousand lying around here and I have found this difference in length to be very consistant depending on the shot size marked on the hull.

[Richard Flanders]

I've got a small bag of black plastic Remington ribbed 16ga shells that I bought in 1965...! They're still fine.....I think... I know I killed my first woodcock with a Mod 11 and a shell from that box.