In the film Heat, at one point the swap the red shotgun shells for blue ones. What does this mean?
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nucleotideboy
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Commercial shotgun ammo makers do not follow an industry-wide standard for color coding their shotgun shells. Winchester can make red shells while Bob's Ammo and Bait can make blue ones. Shooters who make their own ammo may decide to use color coding to indicate different loads. For example, they may make themselves a light bird-hunting load in the red ones and a heavy load in blue ones and use the color to help speed reloading decisions while hunting. I haven't seen the movie for a long time. There may have been a scene where the shooters are shown making special shotgun loads in blue shells that got cut from the final movie version. Maybe there was a scene where one of them comments on the specific usefulness of the blue shells and *that* scene got cut. This reminds me of Die Hard 2 where the terrorists had two different MP5 magazines, one with red tape and one with blue. One color indicated blanks to be used in fake firefights with their secret Army allies.
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certain shells contain different loads and powder amounts. Some producers color coordinate their shells. My regular loads are red. my slugs are yellow, and my buck shot is black.
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red are bird shot and blue are buck shot or at least on dove brand amo
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