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What year was it when the 20 gauge shells were required to be changed to yellow?............... And what year was it when the 16 gauge shells were made purple? And then changed back to any color?
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Purple was a choice of Federal Cartridge for their 16s, had nothing to do with an industy wide change as was the case with the 20 gauge. I doubt that "required" is the correct terminology.
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Yes, all 20 gauges had to be changed over to yellow in color. What year was that? And what years did the 16 gauge change to purple and then go back to any color?
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I don't ever remember any Win or Rem 16's being purple, so assuming they were ever all purple, it'd have to be prior to about 1973.
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Don't remember them in the sixties but do in the early seventies.I may have knew at one time but not a clue today.Probably replaces knowledge with which station now has the cheapest gas. Were Sears and Wards among the first to start doing this?
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I dont have a date on the 20ga to yellow decision but I have a few red Winchester AA 20 ga hulls in my bin of emptys. They cant be too old as they are compresion formed plastic hulls.
I have 16s in all kinds of colors.
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Federal did make the 16 gauge in purple and I don't believe anyone else did, but I was wondering which years were they made and when did they stop?
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Federal still makes the 16 in purple as does Estate which is owned by Federal. (they are the same hull). As far as I know Federal 16s have always been purple at least the paper Monarchs that I have are purple.
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The most recent Federal 16-gauge shells I've had are purple.
I thumbed thru some old Winchester catalogues and the first picture I found showing a yellow 20-gauge shell was in the 1974 catalogue. However, I seem to recall we were using yellow 20-gauge AAs when I was still stationed in San Diego, and I left there December 1973. I stashed a couple of crisp new boxes of red 20-gauge AAs at home in Seattle on my way to Alaska, but my Father found them and shot them up at Doves in the following years.
Yellow 20-gauge shells are pictured in the 1973 Remington catalogue.
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