Red 20 Ga. Hulls

[Billy Gross]

Do these have any collector value? Any guess how much? Thanx, Billy

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[Austin J Hawthorne Jr.]

Sorry, but no. They also look like they've reached the end of their reloading life.

[John Dallas]

They're old. Not yellow

[Russell E. Cleary]

Old, not yellow, and 20-gauge.

Maybe rare, but not a collectible.

Sounds like most of my collections.

[scott kittredge]

do you have very many of them?

[Billy Gross]

I just have the two shown in the pictures. Billy

[CraigThompson]

I’ve picked up a half dozen or so of them over the years . I loaded them all and they’re sitting on the window sill in what was my loading room and now is pretty much a storeroom .

[John Dallas]

About 6 years ago, Federal put on a promotion to encourage women shooters. Made up a bunch of pink shells in 12 and 20 gauge. They had to recall the 20 gauge shells because they didn't follow the yellow shell convention

[Dave Noreen]

A Navy Chief I shot with in San Diego had a case of them and gave me two boxes. In December 1973 I safely stored them away at my parents' house in Seattle on my way to Alaska. Next time I saw them they were fifty empties on the loading bench. Dear old Dad had shot doves with them!! I have one Western factory load and one Winchester reloaded in my shell collection. I'd imagine a crisp, full, factory fresh box would have some collector value.

[Frank Srebro]

A full box of red paper 20's that pre-date Billy's shells and Dave's vignette. Would look good in a shell collection or with a Model 12 or 21 Skeet gun. :)
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[edgarspencer]

About 6 years ago, Federal put on a promotion to encourage women shooters. Made up a bunch of pink shells in 12 and 20 gauge. They had to recall the 20 gauge shells because they didn't follow the yellow shell convention

Federal donated all the profits of the Breast Cancer Awareness shells to the American Cancer Society

[Tom Hawkins]

I found these early red plastic winchester shells at a gun show years ago. The number 5 shot is my favorite for wild roosters.

[Phil Yearout]

No 20’s but I remember when 16’s were red or green, not purple. I still have a few boxes of my dad’s that I’ll never shoot: red Winchester Rangers and green Remington Express. I always liked the green ones and making that the standard 16 color makes just as much sense as purple, which is one of my least favorite colors 🤨!

[Dave Noreen]

Maybe I've led a sheltered life, but I've only seen purple Federal 16-gauge shells both paper and plastic.

My Remington 16-gauge shells are green, right through the most recent box of Remington Express I've been carrying in the left barrel for Pheasants. Of course, the 16-gauge Remington plastic Game Loads are black.

My large stash of compression formed 16-gauge Winchester and Western hulls I reload are all red.

[scott kittredge]

here are 3 different colored 16 ga paper shells, the middle one is a slug

[Phil Yearout]

I guess I was under the impression that purple was the given color for 16ga shells like yellow is for 20's. I admit it's been a while since I've bought any so some may have changed. Just looked through my stash...

Federal - purple
Herters - purple
RST- purple (have had some red ones)
Winchester - red (most of these are quite a few years old)
Rio - red
Fiocchi - blue
Remy Game Load - black
Remy Express - green (Walmart sticker at $5.99 a box, so...)

But I still think they all oughta be green!

[Dave Noreen]

Here is my accumulation of loose 16-gauge shells --

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Upper left Federal - red paper, purple paper & purple plastic.

Upper right Remington -- 2 Nitro Club, Remington Express paper & plastic, Shur-Shot, two different plastic Game Load head-stamped Remington Peters.
Lower left - Western Xpert & variety of Super-X.

Lower middle - WW Dove & Quail.

Lower right - Peters Victor and U.S. Cartridge Co. Climax.

Surprised I don't have any loose Winchester 16-gauge shells.