30 06 headstamp 53 book

This is the very first loading of this round with commercial sport. Set up your reloading bench where powder and primers will not be exposed to heat, sparks or flame. The headstamp is the stamped markings on the head of the cartridge. For comprehensive and up to date information, please refer to my new book soviet cannon at. Hxp 74 is excellent milspec 50bmg ammo made on us equipment given to the greek government. The headstamp has a twoletter manufacturer code and the lot code rather than the year is the number 40 followed by a third numeral. The headstamps are mixed, but several are marked dc 43 denver cartidge 1943 i would guess. Headstamp markings on ammunition introduction ballistics. Compared to this webpage with its 69 pages, the book and the enclosed cdrom offer a total of almost 900 pages. Windex on patches then hot water more patches and then bore lube of some kind. Rounds from this series bear headstamps such as wra 53, superspeed 30 06 sprg, wcc 57 and fa 58 match. This new cartridge, standardized in 1906 and known as the. Fn 57 surplus ammo problem the leading glock forum and. The pressure curve of the powder burn rate is much higher than with m2 spec ammo.

To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Now that i am getting real short of brass for 8x57 mauser, 7. It was most definitely noncorrosive with very brittle berdan primed brass. The search you made undoubtedly hit on discussion involving ap sales that were offered in 2010, again see the above photos for an example of that sale. The cartridge case is not drilled out for a hole for the primer to work, therefore it cannot fire. The association of firearm and tool mark examiners afte is the international professional organization for practitioners of firearm andor tool mark identification and has been dedicated to the exchange of information, methods and best practices, and the. I go to shoot it a few weeks ago and all i get is a. A cartridge headstamp is a mark, or series of marks impressed, or sometimes embossed, on the head of the cartridge case during its manufacture. They can be in any language, numbering system or can relate to any calendar. This is a full 2 piece box of 20 rounds of winchester. Some are the actual ones pictured in chris punnetts superb book.

Specifically, check the weight of the brass your manual specifies against the brass youre using. Headstamps, color codes, markings the russian ammunition. Information that can be obtained from the headstamp is extremely varied and depends on the intended purpose or use of the cartridge and who manufactured it. This is partly speculation, partly prior experience. Following the headstamp trail the web site cannot be found. These rounds are loose and as the cmp sales description states, headstamp varies. Circa 1966 this is the exact box shown in chris punnetts. I fired a few of them through an m1 garand until i found out they passed completely through the 14 diameter tree i was using as a target, without expansion. International ammunition association journal index yumpu. How to identify ammunition headstamps the best brass to.

The exterior shape of the case was designed to promote reliable case feeding and extraction in boltaction rifles and machine guns alike, under extreme conditions. The condition is also mixed with some appearing shootable and others with corrosion starting to form, mostly around the base. A headstamp will help identify who made the cartridge, the year it was made, a model of the mark, type of powder and sometimes even denote if it is for special use. Shooting black tipped 3006 to get brass archive cast. Keep everything out of the reach of small children. Please note that these pages are no longer updated and contain partially obsolete data. Collectable ammuntion catalog, antique reloading tools. The w is at 9 oclock on the head, the s is at 12 oclock, and the r is at 3 oclock.

Cartridges intended for sporting or civilian use usually. Neatly opened to remove contents and shrink wrapped in plastic for display. I have run into pressure problems using mixed 9mm brass at near max book loads, so i dont do that anymore. It wouldnt be ideal to put reformed 7x57mm loads in a.

Im actually a little more selective on rifle brass. Fc stamp rp stamp winchester hornady greek lc is it fair to put greek case quality with lc. Us military head stamps cartridge firearms firearms scribd. The cartridges in the box, with their raised u headstamps, pin its production date down a. Gmx 20 rounds 894 lax ammunition range grade 223 rem 55 gr fmj 250 rds wfree ammo can. This has red primmer sealent just like the lc stuff. The first one i shot noslers at book minimum powder charge had 3 shots touching the bullseye at 100 yards shooting off my elbows on the bench. Sometimes the caliber information is either spelled out or abbreviated 3006. We aslo purchased considerable quantities of both 30 06 and. Ka 73 ammo and brass gun and game the friendliest gun.

Loads for 30 06 k98 accurized action custom cut chamber 1. Know one will know for sure, only that commercial ammo will fatigue the parts and reciever. I understand the lapuanosleretc case quality, but curious about the rest. I might have one or two headstamps and chuck the rest. The tsx was introduced in 2003 and has become barnes most popular hunting bullet. Welcome bls72bmw, it sounds like you ordered a loose can of greek m2 that comes in a.

Reference cartridges were made to extremely close tolerances and used as the standard against which other ammunition is compared during test or inspection. The case had red lacquer sealant around the primer annulus. Headstamp codes international ammunition association. But there is no reason you cannot load gi 30 06 or 7. Im guessing that the ik 3006 fits between the 85 and the 88 ammo, however that is just a guess on my part. This last picture includes a ball dummy f a 53, orange tip tracer f a 54, black. What is hercules reloader 12 used for 1919 a4 forums.

Included is company information, other headstamps used and dates of use when known. The damage is an accumulative affect of metal fatigue. I loaded 180 grain barnes, 180 grain nosler, and 180 grain herters projectiles with 4 loads of imr4350 each. The two additional digits 30 mean that this ammunition is grenades.

Headstamp is probably fa 53, but with corrosive primers. Mixed headstamp brass cci lr mag 250 primers 150 fmjbt mil surp pulled bullets 53. It also appears that the igman plant went through at least 5 headstamp changes from 8589. I bought several cans of 250rd belted kynoch k 53 when the cmp offered it back in approx 2010. Headstamps consist of one or more parts or information elements. Barnes 6 mm creedmoor 95 gr lrx bt 20 rounds 30232 hornady superformance 6 mm creedmoor 90 gr. A headstamp is the markings on the bottom of a cartridge case designed for a firearm. My garand has shot greek m2 fine and various commercial ammo. Sometimes the headstamp only indicates the maker of the cartridge case, or distributor of the. Sometimes markings are deliberately deceiving, as with some. Sometimes the headstamp only indicates the maker of the cartridge case, or distributor of.