Winchester Blue Light

[Gordon R]

Spotted one of these this morning at Rishton. I have shot thousands and thousands of Winchester shells in the 1980s - Trap 100, Trap 200 and Winner, but do not recollect seeing a single one of these. Blue compression formed case - 28grm light load 7 1/2. Eddie Threlfall - the Club's owner said he had found half a dozen in his store of shells.

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Well I shot loads of them as well as the AA 100 and 200 and winners.

Still have some old Winchesters tucked away somewhere.

Edited December 9, 2018 by TIGHTCHOKE
Spellage!

[Smokersmith]

If I remember well, there were the first of Winchesters serious 28g offers when T100/200's were all 32g.

I can remember our skepticism at the time ... things have moved on a bit since then !!

[dipper]

They were the easiest case to resize bar non

[Gordon R]

I reloaded many thousands of Winchester compression cases in the 1980s and they were by far the best - aside from Remington 8 star crimps.

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Loved those green Remington shells and the Blue Peters before them.

[Gordon R]

Tightchoke, I was racking my brains trying to remember another shell - up you popped with the answer - Remington Peters Blue Magic.

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Loved those and the black Federal cases.

Edited December 9, 2018 by TIGHTCHOKE
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[Donkey]

I have about 200 once fired blue lights left for reloading they were a great she'll including the silver I loved the t 100 and t 200 both were cracking pigeon loads

[pinfireman]

I have loaded Win AA,s  Remington RXP, and Remington Peters Blue magic sine the 1970,s....I  saw the end coming for the compression cases, and so I stockpiled several thousand empties, from my visits to the American bases in the 80,s! Winchester then had Winners made in Italy, which had a good plastic case, but a poor fitting "brass" head. They eventually faded out, probably a cost issue. Remington decided not to go down that road.......I also bought up 2,500  early 70,s  Win AA,s  Trap & Skeet, from my local shop, and still have most of them. A few days ago, I opened a box where I had stored the Blue Magic empties, approx 30 years ago, and loaded 100. They sailed through my P/W 900, perfect 8 star crimps!  I hope to shoot them this coming weekend.  The only European cartridge that comes near them, on quality of construction, is Victory. 

Edited December 10, 2018 by pinfireman
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[hawkfanz]

ive still got a load of remington and aa shells 8 point crimp,god knows how many times ive reloaded them,modern shells just aren,t up to that quality.

[marktattoo]

I started shooting shotguns in the 80’s and was introduced with a lanber and Winchester blue lights along with the trap 100 and 200 Carts 

[Salopian]

A friend of mine always shot Winchester Blue Lights , bought a new Remington 1100 when Hull Cartridge were the importers .

He had nothing but trouble with the Remington breaking , so Hull asked him to send it back with a box of the cartridges he regularly used.

Gun was repaired and came back with a cartridge test report showing the cartridges were over pressured , horrendously high . Lucky he still has his fingers .

Changed cartridge brand  ( Eley) and Remington behaved , in fact he still uses it.

I used to love Winners 

[Bigdavet]

There is a picture of the last box of blue lights they did 

[Bigdavet]

The original blue light box 

[Lever357]

On 03/01/2019 at 03:59, Bigdavet said:

The original blue light box 

Thats the one I remember. Have I found Dave Thornhill????

[Guest cookoff013]

Modern shells are manufactured to a standard where they have been economised. Plastic gets less and less dense, less polymer is a massive saving over 10s of million shells. They are not good to re-load. Barely surviving the first loading.

I bought a joblot of hulls. The older ones are tough. New, not so good.