45 ACP head stamp mystery

ras_oscar · Apr 5, 2020

Loading up a bunch of 45 ACP range brass today because covid19. Came across a piece that refused to deprime. Took a closer look and saw it was Berdan primed WTF? Looked at the head stamp and it said only 45 ACP on the lower ring and, upon Magnifying it through the magic of photography, (chinese?) characters on the top.

The case was silver colored (chrome plated?) has anyone come across cases like this before?

toppkatt · Apr 5, 2020

I can't really see the headstamp that well, but could it be Hebrew (Israeli)?

303_enfield · Apr 5, 2020

Wolf 45? Not Hebrew ammo(TZZ). Looks steel not nickel.

303_enfield · Apr 5, 2020

Quick search shows Silver Bear brass looks like that, but Tula is possible also.

ras_oscar · Apr 5, 2020

if I use my eyes the headstamp appears to have a "pi" greek symbol in the middle with a 3 on the left and a backwards 3 on the right. I'll look up silver bear and Tula headstamps online and see if anything looks familiar. Sorry for the poor photo, my iphone doesn't have a macro camera and I probably got too close.

GunBum · Apr 5, 2020

I ripped this picture off from another site...

Anyway, it’s Russian.

toppkatt · Apr 5, 2020

GunBum said:
I ripped this picture off from another site...

Anyway, it’s Russian.

I think you won.

Bullfrog · Apr 6, 2020

ras_oscar said:
if I use my eyes the headstamp appears to have a "pi" greek symbol in the middle with a 3 on the left and a backwards 3 on the right. I'll look up silver bear and Tula headstamps online and see if anything looks familiar. Sorry for the poor photo, my iphone doesn't have a macro camera and I probably got too close.

Those sound like Russian letters, I can't make them out on my phone... do they look like this:

ЭПЕ

The 3 looking one is 'eh oborotnoye' (literally backwards E, makes an 'eh' sound), Pi looking thing is a russian P, and E is the more common russian E (pronounced like 'yeh'). Not sure if they represent the name of an armory or what.

K31 · Apr 6, 2020

Bullfrog said:
The 3 looking one is 'eh oborotnoye' (literally backwards E, makes an 'eh' sound)

Must be Canadian then.

ras_oscar · Apr 8, 2020

Bullfrog said:
Those sound like Russian letters, I can't make them out on my phone... do they look like this:

ЭПЕ

The 3 looking one is 'eh oborotnoye' (literally backwards E, makes an 'eh' sound), Pi looking thing is a russian P, and E is the more common russian E (pronounced like 'yeh'). Not sure if they represent the name of an armory or what.

that is an accurate description of what i see on the case

Buster Brown · Apr 8, 2020

I think its silver bear. I have some brown bear 223 with the same stamp. Bought it from someone at gunshow last year. I have no idea of when it was made.

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