Remington - Peters Blue - Paper Hulls

[.455_Hunter]

These are Federal paper shells made with blue paper. Nothing more, nothing less. Vista runs the show for both Federal and Remington now.

 

[Nevada Ed]

The problem with reloading trap shells is when................

Bags of lead went up to $42 back in 2006 !!

I have lots of 12 Ga. ammo by the cases & flats............
I have not checked reloading prices in seven years.

Too many hulls,wads, primers & powders on hand to worry about it.

I feel sorry for those that need shot gun shells, at this time.
It is a great sport or field fun................ hope you all, hang in there.

 

[Yorkie Man]

I bought a case of them and they are the same as the Federal Gold medal paper hulls with the exception of the head stamp and blue paper hull. They are only available on the website. I have quite a collection of older Winchester and Western paper shotgun shells from the 50' and 60's so these will fit right in.

 

[chief38]

The only paper hulled shells I shoot these days are the boxes that were left to me by my Dad. They are the real deal from the 50's and 60's - not repro's. They work just fine however I would not set out to spend 2, 3 or 4 times a box more unless I was still a competitor. For the sporting clays or skeet & trap just about any of the Federal, Remington or Winchester "promo" ammo works just fine and for bird hunting I'll use up the vintage paper hulled high brass up before buying new plastic hulled high brass hunting loads. In a few finicky auto-loadersI have, I'll use Winchester AA, but when I am shooting just for fun at clays, any of the cheap rounds works for me.

That said, I do get a kick out of answering some of my friends when they ask me why I use 70 year old paper hulled ammo for hunting ........ my response is because it works just fine and I have it! lol. I have NEVER had any vintage ammo fail!

 

[DWalt]

I still have around 5 boxes of Sears 12 gauge shotshells with paper cases which I bought back in the late 1960s when Sears stopped selling ammunition. As I remember, they were closing them out at $1.50 per box, and I bought all I could get, which was several cases. #6 shot, but they worked OK for Trap. I am fairly certain they were made by Federal. Did the same for .22 ammo, but all the local Sears store had was .22 Short and I believe I have three bricks. I keep them mainly as collectibles, but I suppose I could make a pretty good profit by selling them today. I also have a few boxes of 20 gauge paper case shells I bought from Montgomery Wards long ago, probably also made by Federal. Back then, Federal was probably the largest (and maybe the only) player in making house-branded ammunition for the large chain stores.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that the new Blue Peters paper shells were being made by Federal since the takeover.

 

[Buford57]

I still have a few boxes of Federal Champion and a few more White Gold stashed. I used to enjoy the aroma of freshly fired paper shells as much as freshly baked bread or sagebrush after rain. Haven't been able to smell anything since 97, so I will not be a buyer for the new Peters shells.

 

[DWalt]

Yes, I remember that the fired paper cased shells did have a distinctive aroma. No idea if it was the paper or something else. At the time, many paper cases were made using paraffin-impregnated paper, sort of like wax paper, and that may have been the reason.

 

[Skeet 028]

Nothing like the smell of fired paper shells. The smell came from the combo of wax and powder burning. Always more Smoke from papers. Back when there were only paper shells I had a shell ironer. Made the crimp end stiff so you got more reloads When it got heated up it melted the impregnated wax...or you put a bit of paraffin on the ironer. When Winchester came out with the AA paper shell days were numbered, thankfully! I still have one of the shell ironers somewhere