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.
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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