Red 20 Ga. Hulls

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by 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

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 🤨!

[Researcher]

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.

[10 bore]

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!

[Researcher]

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.