Remington Premier Nitro Sporting Clays 12 Gauge Ammunition

Are you a dedicated clay target shooter looking for the ultimate edge in consistency and performance? Whether you're a competitive athlete aiming for the podium or a passionate enthusiast striving to perfect your break, the choice of ammunition can dramatically impact your results. For those who demand precision and reliability with every pull of the trigger, Remington Ammunition introduces its Premier Nitro Sporting Clays 12 Gauge shells, engineered to deliver an unparalleled experience on the sporting clays course, trap field, or skeet range.

Unlocking Peak Performance: Who Needs This Ammunition?

This premium 12-gauge ammunition is specifically designed for discerning shotgunners who participate in clay target disciplines. If you're someone who:

• Competes in Sporting Clays, Trap, or Skeet: Consistency is paramount in competitive shooting. These shells are built to minimize variables, allowing you to focus purely on your technique and target acquisition.
• Seeks Unwavering Reliability: You can't afford misfires or inconsistent patterns when a perfect score is on the line. Remington Premier Nitro ensures dependable ignition and uniform performance shot after shot.
• Aims for Superior Target Breaks: The precise shot size and controlled patterns of these shells are optimized to deliver decisive breaks, even on challenging presentations.
• Desires a Smooth Shooting Experience: While powerful, the careful balance of components in these shells helps manage felt recoil, enabling faster follow-up shots and reducing shooter fatigue during long practice sessions or tournaments.
• Wants to Maximize Practice Effectiveness: Using consistent, high-quality ammunition for practice translates directly to improved performance in competition, building confidence and refining muscle memory.

In essence, if your goal is to consistently hit more clays and elevate your shooting prowess, understanding the characteristics of your ammunition is crucial. The Remington Premier Nitro Sporting Clays shells address the core problem of variability, providing a trustworthy foundation for every shot.

Why Remington Premier Nitro Sporting Clays Stands Apart

What makes this particular 12-gauge offering a preferred choice among serious clay shooters? It boils down to a meticulous design philosophy focused on consistency, velocity, and pattern density.

• Exceptional Shot Consistency (7.5 Shot): The heart of any clay target load is its shot. Remington Premier Nitro loads feature high-quality, perfectly spherical lead shot in a #7.5 size. This specific shot size is a gold standard for clay shooting because it offers an optimal balance: a high pellet count for dense, effective patterns, coupled with enough individual pellet energy to ensure crisp, positive breaks on clay pigeons, whether they are crossing, incoming, or quartering away. The uniformity in pellet size and spherical shape minimizes flyers, ensuring a more predictable and effective pattern at varying distances.
• Optimized Velocity for Faster Breaks (1 oz Payload): Delivering the 1 oz payload of #7.5 shot with a carefully chosen velocity, these shells ensure that your shot reaches the target quickly and decisively. High velocity reduces the amount of lead required, simplifying target acquisition and giving you less time for the target to escape your pattern. The 1 oz shot weight is often preferred by competitive shooters as it offers a sufficient pellet count without contributing to excessive felt recoil, making it ideal for high-volume shooting.
• Advanced Wad Technology: While the exact wad design is proprietary, Remington's Premier line typically incorporates advanced wad systems. These wads are engineered to protect the shot pellets from deformation as they travel down the barrel, ensuring they maintain their spherical shape for a true flight path. Furthermore, the wad plays a critical role in creating a superior gas seal, maximizing propellant efficiency and contributing to consistent velocities. Upon exiting the barrel, the wad cleanly separates from the shot column, allowing the pellets to fly true and form a dense, uniform pattern. This intricate design directly translates into more shattered clays.
• Reliable Priming and Clean Propellant: Every component in a Premier Nitro shell is chosen for performance. The primers provide consistent and reliable ignition, even under varying temperature and humidity conditions. The propellant is formulated for a clean burn, which means less residue build-up in your shotgun. This not only contributes to the longevity and easier maintenance of your firearm but also ensures that each shot performs with the same predictable power and velocity, free from inconsistencies caused by erratic powder burn.
• Durable, Reloadable Hulls: For shooters who partake in high-volume practice or competition, the quality of the hull matters. Remington Premier Nitro hulls are known for their durability, often allowing for multiple reloads. This can be a significant advantage for those who choose to handload their ammunition, further emphasizing the value and longevity of these shells beyond their initial use.

Real-World Applications: Where Does This Ammunition Excel?

The versatility and performance of Remington Premier Nitro Sporting Clays make it an excellent choice across various clay target disciplines:

• Sporting Clays: Often called "golf with a shotgun," sporting clays presents a wide array of target presentations, mimicking real-world hunting scenarios. The 1 oz of #7.5 shot in these shells provides the ideal balance for targets that can be incoming, outgoing, quartering, high, low, fast, or slow. Its consistent patterns are crucial for hitting targets at varying distances and angles. Whether you're facing a tricky Teal target or a fast Rabbit, the reliable performance of Premier Nitro allows you to adapt and break clays confidently.
• Trap Shooting: In trap, targets fly away from the shooter at consistent angles and speeds. The consistent velocity and dense patterns of these 12-gauge shells are perfect for breaking these rapidly departing targets. The manageable recoil also aids in quick recovery for doubles.
• Skeet Shooting: Skeet involves targets crossing in front of the shooter at close to medium ranges from two "houses." The tight, predictable patterns of the #7.5 shot are highly effective for the fast, close-range shots encountered in skeet, ensuring a decisive break even on the most fleeting targets.
• High-Volume Practice and Training: For serious shooters, practice is key. Using the same high-quality ammunition for both practice and competition builds muscle memory and confidence. The reliability of Remington Premier Nitro means your practice sessions are more effective, as you can trust your ammunition and focus on improving your technique.

Understanding Shotgun Ammunition: A Closer Look for Clay Shooters

To truly appreciate the engineering behind Remington Premier Nitro Sporting Clays, it helps to understand the key specifications:

• 12 Gauge: The most popular shotgun gauge worldwide, the 12 gauge offers a fantastic balance of power, versatility, and ammunition availability. Its larger bore allows for a substantial payload of shot, creating a wide and effective pattern, which is ideal for breaking clay targets.
• 2.75" Shell Length: This is the standard chamber length for most modern 12-gauge shotguns and is perfectly suited for clay target shooting. It ensures proper feeding and ejection in a vast majority of pump-action, semi-automatic, and over/under shotguns.
• 1 oz Shot Payload: This refers to the weight of the shot contained within the shell. A 1 oz payload of #7.5 shot provides a high pellet count (approximately 345 pellets) without inducing excessive recoil. This balance is critical for shooters who fire hundreds of rounds in a single session or tournament, allowing for sustained performance without fatigue.
• #7.5 Shot Size: Shot sizes are inversely proportional to their number; a smaller number means larger pellets. For clay shooting, #7.5 shot is considered optimal. Its size provides enough mass per pellet to maintain energy downrange for reliable breaks, while its smaller diameter allows for a higher pellet count in a given weight, resulting in a denser and more forgiving pattern. This balance helps in hitting fast-moving or partially obscured targets.
• Velocity: While not explicitly listed in the initial description, Premier Nitro loads are engineered for consistent, high velocities appropriate for clay targets. Higher velocities reduce the time of flight for the shot column, which minimizes the lead required on moving targets. This subtle advantage can be the difference between a hit and a miss, especially on challenging, long-range targets.

Optimizing Your Performance: Beyond the Ammunition

While Remington Premier Nitro Sporting Clays provides a superior foundation, maximizing your performance also involves other factors:

• Choke Selection: The choke constricts the barrel at the muzzle, controlling the spread of the shot pattern. Pairing your Remington Premier Nitro ammunition with the correct choke for the target presentation is vital. For sporting clays, a range of chokes from Skeet to Improved Modified might be used. For trap, tighter chokes like Modified or Full are common. Experimenting with different chokes will reveal how they interact with the consistent patterns of your Premier Nitro shells, helping you fine-tune your setup for optimal breaks.
• Shooting Fundamentals: No ammunition, however good, can compensate for poor technique. Consistent practice of stance, gun mount, lead, and follow-through remains paramount. The reliability of Remington Premier Nitro allows you to focus on these fundamentals without worrying about ammunition-related inconsistencies.
• Mental Game: Confidence in your equipment translates to confidence in your abilities. Knowing that you are using top-tier, consistent ammunition like Remington Premier Nitro Sporting Clays can provide a significant psychological edge, allowing you to approach each station with a clear, focused mind.

Remington: A Legacy of Ammunition Excellence

Remington Ammunition has been a cornerstone of the American shooting sports tradition for over 200 years. Their commitment to innovation and quality is evident in products like the Premier Nitro Sporting Clays line. This long-standing heritage and expertise instill confidence, ensuring that every shell is manufactured to the highest standards, delivering the performance and reliability that serious shooters demand. Choosing Remington means choosing a brand trusted by generations of hunters and competitive shooters alike.

These products are all available at DEGuns, your trusted source for a wide selection of firearms and ammunition. Experience the difference that premium, consistent ammunition can make in your clay target shooting. Whether you're preparing for your next competition or simply enjoying a day at the range, Remington Premier Nitro Sporting Clays shells provide the reliable performance you need to consistently shatter clays and elevate your game.

Feature	Description	UPC (for 25 Bx)
Ammunition Type	Shotgun Shells, Sporting Clays Specific	047700449103
Gauge	12 Gauge
Shell Length	2.75 inches
Shot Weight	1 ounce
Shot Size	7.5 shot
Primary Use	Sporting Clays, Trap, Skeet
Packaging	25 rounds per box, 10 boxes per case (250 rounds total per case)
Product Number	28850
Brand	Remington Ammunition