1900 Parker GH #1 Frame 12ga.
 

Those old "blue peters" are some of the best. I've got a few I've picked up over the years and they still do their job when I'm doing mine.

Destry

Nick-named "blue magic" :cool:

I've heard that one too, though always more in relation to the blue low brass trap loads. At home you'd hear the old timers call the the high brass ones "blue peters" which was also another local nickname for the coot / mud hen oddly enough. And they said it like one word as in bluepeters same as the name for the coot. Different nicknames from different areas, always fun.

A friend had a funny story about fooling a duck guide down in Arkansas with some super heavy magnum loads of BB they had loaded up in those low brass " blue magic" hulls. They had them in the original boxes marked #8 and the guide commented that they'd better get different shells as he didn't think those would kill ducks. He was stunned all morning when they dropped high tree top shots in the timber with them and immediately left after the hunt to go to the store and buy some of them "blue magics" that they'd been killing the long ducks with.

Destry

i like that storey .... charlie

Green ones?.
 

Hi All.:)
Years ago i shot some remington peters power piston shells and they were
green ones. With long brass and a ribbed case No 5 shot and boy did they kill
ducks. I shot them in a Greener GP with a 32 inch barrel full choke.
All the best Dave.:bigbye:

I would love to see Mike Stahle's boxes, top view to see the load specs and the price tags. By the way, "Blue Magic" was the nomenclature for the smooth, unribbed case target shells. I suspect the pictured boxes may be the first generation High Velocity hunting loads, first introduced about 1961. They were ribbed cases with the burned in crimp centers. Shoot us a picture of the tops of the boxes and the top of one of the shells.

Bill, I hope Mike will post a pic just to compare. Here's a box of the HV I have in my stash.As you mentioned, ribbed case, melted crimp.

i like the price tag on them shells...can not help but like any old shell....charlie

Box photo-shoot this weekend Bill :)

Guys I sure think I remember as a little boy my Grandfather and
Dad calling those high brass Peters "blue magic’s".
Is it possible the company picked up on that fast growing popular
sportsman dubbed name and capitalized on it for there low brass shells
as the official, in writing on the box, “blue Magic” shot-shells?

Mike