RIO Shotgun Shells

I have no experience with this brand - Has anyone shot these before? For Pheasant Hunting

We order them for a couple of trap teams I coach and have for years, no problems. I also notice quite a few of the sporting clays competitors here shoot that brand as well. I would think their heavier rounds would be fine tho I haven’t used them.

Osky

Thanks Osky- I ordered (2) cases from Cheaper-Than-Dirt.

I sold them for lots of years while guiding. Never had any issues.

My Go To Round for Sporting Clays.

My freind used their steel shot for duck hunting and was not impressed. Never used their lead shells though.

I shot some this past fall and they were fine

I have shot cases of them. Lead and steel and never had a problem of any sort. I always liked them.

only used 7 1/2 and they were fine.

Rio are mad in TX by Spanish company Maxam

Thanks for the input! I'm in no panic situation but joined a sportsman club for pheasants... I figure get shells now or start practicing with my Wrist Rocket

I have shot many cases of steel shot, never had any issues. As poor as I shoot, it doesn't make much difference anyway haha. They all went bang.

3 or 4 years ago when my son qualified for the high school national finals 3/4 of the shooters at the trap shoot were using Rio shells including the entire Texas Team (who incidentally won the national title that year- and most years)

I've shot thousands of Rio trap shells, never had a problem, never tried the pheasant loads. If you reload you will need to use a Rio primer as they oversized.

Rio #6 are a great load for all sorts of fowl.
I use their #9’s for early and mid season dove and switch to 7.5’s for late season.

Hopefully you got it for a better price than this from CheaperThanDirt...

If you plan to reload those hulls be aware that the Rio primer is a couple thousandths larger than the WIN or REM so you might have loose primers if you do not use Rio primers in the reload......................pretending for a moment that you can even buy primers anywhere

Yes , they are good shells ,a duck hunting friend brings me bags of them to reload , i use the fed gold metal recipe after i trim them back for 2 3/4 , i use the rio high brass hull ,32 gr longshot, fed 12s3 wad 11/8 #4 shot, and fed 209a primers , they are not as snug but work ,seems i see variations in primer pockets , if i see one to loose a dab of super glue dos the trick.

I shot a lot of Rio 3 " steel bb's, geese fell down just as good as the high priced stuff

Decent ammo for the money. Seem to shoot pretty dirty tho.

How much did they cost ya? CTD is known for price gouging pretty hard on ammo.

quite a bit cheaper at my local shop