xcgates
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Let me start by saying that I know that people say that you can treat the Remington bulk pack hulls you get from the sport load packs from Walmart can be loaded as STS.
My question is why I have two different manuals that treat the hulls differently. The Lyman Shotshell Reloading Handbook 5th Edition kind of just lumps them together, or more accurately, just ignores them. The RCBS shotshell reloading manual has them in two different categories, with a separate list of recipes for them, "Remington One-Piece Premier RTL, STS, Nitro 27 Plastic Target Shell" and "Remington One-Piece Unibody SP Plastic Shell"
In the RCBS book, the STS category shows the gold hull, and the green hull, both with low brass. The Unibody category shows the green hull with both high and low brass, the black hull, and the green hull with low brass(actually steel). Just looking at the pictures all of the interiors appear to be the same.
Is there a reason that the one manual would categorize them differently? I checked some of the loads, and there are some that look very similar except for slight variations in the powder charge, and a say a Rem 209 primer as opposed to a Rem 209P primer.
(This comes up because I just picked up a MEC 600 at the range today, and am hunting down an actual load to put together. As soon as I pick my load, I'm going to start collecting all those once-fired hulls that turn up every sunday. )
My question is why I have two different manuals that treat the hulls differently. The Lyman Shotshell Reloading Handbook 5th Edition kind of just lumps them together, or more accurately, just ignores them. The RCBS shotshell reloading manual has them in two different categories, with a separate list of recipes for them, "Remington One-Piece Premier RTL, STS, Nitro 27 Plastic Target Shell" and "Remington One-Piece Unibody SP Plastic Shell"
In the RCBS book, the STS category shows the gold hull, and the green hull, both with low brass. The Unibody category shows the green hull with both high and low brass, the black hull, and the green hull with low brass(actually steel). Just looking at the pictures all of the interiors appear to be the same.
Is there a reason that the one manual would categorize them differently? I checked some of the loads, and there are some that look very similar except for slight variations in the powder charge, and a say a Rem 209 primer as opposed to a Rem 209P primer.
(This comes up because I just picked up a MEC 600 at the range today, and am hunting down an actual load to put together. As soon as I pick my load, I'm going to start collecting all those once-fired hulls that turn up every sunday. )