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      UMC and Early Remington-UMC Primers

      Nice catch. I'll edit my dates when I get around to redoing the thread. A few others to add are that the UMC/Remington-UMC ammuntion started to carry lot numbers indicating year in 1908. I have UMC 7mm Mauser boxes from 1909 and 1911, and two boxes without lot number indicating pre-1908. By the...
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      Dating Winchester/Western Ammo Boxes

      Cool box. Although your 1st post-war style box says Winchester, the A in the lot number indicates it actually rolled off a Western production line. Winchester and Western did this alot from 1931 until 1958 when they merged production in East Alton, Illinois. The 7512 is in Winchester-format for...
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      Headstamp ID

      Yeah, Hirtenberger Patronen (HP), Austrian, Berdan primed. Excellent brass if you reload Berdan like I do.
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      Dating Winchester/Western Ammo Boxes

      Yes, 11 November 1948. A 1968 box would have the "Warning: keep out of reach of children", and a 1928 box would be an entirely different style.
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      Looking for domed primer seating tool

      Before the current primer drought, I was able to purchase thousands of Federal NC/NM Large Rifle and Large Rifle Magnum primers made the the early 1950's. They are of the domed type. I test fired a batch with 30.06 loads and they functioned flawlessly. What I didn't like was that some primers...
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      Very Small Flash Holes on Recent Swiss-made norma 9mm

      The recent crop of norma 9mm ammunition is made for RUAGAmmotech by its ammunition plants on Germany, Switzerland, and Hungary. RUAG bought the brand name norma. From left to right: German, Swiss, Swiss, Hungarian. While the German and Hungarian cases have standard size (1/16th inch or .065")...
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      Howard County, MD; May 14 & 15, 2022

      According to the Howard County Fairgrounds website, the gun show is scheduled for 28-29 May 2022. Their schedule shows the Peak Building Materials Preview o 13-14 May 2022. The www.thegunshows.com site states gun show May 14-15.
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      What's with Norma brass?

      The recent crop of "norma" 9mm ammo is made under the german firm RUAG. RUAG has ammo factories in several European countries -- Italy, Hungary, Germany, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Switzerland, to name a few. RUAG owns the trade name norma, which it produces in Hungary, Germany, and Switzerland...
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      Not the Columbian Mauser I ordered

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      Not the Columbian Mauser I ordered

      First: yes, I've shot it. Second: the barreled receiver sits in the stock OK but the M43/M44 handguard is totally wrong. It doesn't fit. Compared to stocks on M43/M44's for sale, my stock is nice. Mine has straight grain, no knots, no gouges. But it does have the inletted rear side sling bar...
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      Not the Columbian Mauser I ordered

      Couple decades ago I bought a .30-06 Columbian Mauser from Springfield Sporters. After haggling with them to get the muzzle cover that I paid for, I kinda forgot about it in the closet. I resurrected it and found the barreled receiver, bolt, trigger guard group and -- of course -- muzzle cover...
    12. Federal LPP (relisting, I found SPP)

      Question by '' on classified ad 'Federal LPP (relisting, I found SPP)'

      Lot number indicates production date of 25 March 2002.
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      Preferred 9mm brass?

      Sorry CombatAK, I was typing when you replied. Yes, currently Starline only makes cases. The current manufacturer/supplier of SIG cases is Blackstone Ammunition Company. FORMAX was also saying their machinery can now make 7.62 Nato and 6.5 Creedmore cases, something I hadn't even suspected.
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      Preferred 9mm brass?

      JAGEMANN (YAY-geh-mahn) is another up-and-coming case manufacturing firm in Wisconsin. Most of their cases -- 99% according to their rep -- are made with proprietary headstamps such as S|G, HPR, GBW, TNQ, and a bunch of others, but also with their own JAG. I identify the manufacturer of a case...
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      Preferred 9mm brass?

      Over a decade ago, I decided on Remington 9mm brass. At that time they'd used the same headstamp for the previous 10 years and the average case weight had remained the same for 60 years. I haven't regretted that decision and have put away more cases than I'll ever use. Now, however, there are...
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      9mm Luger Load Reconstruction

      Considering all the variables not covered at the Alliant site, 5.9gr Unique should get me in the ballpark. Certainly not 4.9 or 6.9.
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      9mm Luger Load Reconstruction

      I have a box of 9mm Luger reloads that worked quite well in my Browning HighPower. The problem is an essential part of the reloading label is missing, specifically the amount of Unique. Case WIN 9mm LUGER, primer Winchester small pistol magnum, bullet 115 Winchester FMJ, O.A.L. 1.155"...
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      Looking for Berdan large rifle primers. NATO 7.62 .217

      PM sent.
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      Dating Winchester/Western Ammo Boxes

      In the Western format lot number ME 72 B the date is in the ME 72 portion. It is read from RIGHT to LEFT. 72 becomes 27, E is May, and M is 1937, 1957, 1977, 1997, or 2017. But the Red & Yellow 1946 style boxes were only in use from 1946 to about 1961, so the winner is 1957 -- 27 May 1957. As to...
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      Dating Winchester/Western Ammo Boxes

      The WINCHESTER - WESTERN DIVISION OLIN MATHIESON CHEMICAL CORPORATION company name was used 1954-1968; so we have our answer: 14 January 1960.
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