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Posted: 1/18/2009 1:27:10 PM EDT
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Can anyone provide me a link to a thread on this site or to a website with information about the codes on headstamps? I see various headstamps listed on different websites and I'd like to know what they stand for. Thanks.
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A few below..... US headstamps: DM Des Moines Ordnance Plant, Des Moines IA FA Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia PA KS Kelly Springfield, Allegheny Ordnance Plant, Cumberland MD LC Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, Independence MO LM Lowell MA M Milwaukee Ordnance Plant, Milwaukee WI RA Remington Arms, Bridgeport CT REM-UMC Remington-Union Metallic Cartridge, Bridgeport CT SD Sparklet Devices, Dover OH SL St. Louis Ordnance Plant, St. Louis MO SMCO Stant Manufacturing Co., Connersville IN SB Santa Barbara Ca. TW Twin Cities Ordnance Plant, Minneapolis MN U Utah Ordnance Plant, Salt Lake City UT - Late UT Utah Ordnance Plant, Salt Lake City UT - Early W Winchester - Prototype and test rounds WCC Winchester-OLIN, E.Alton IL WRA Winchester Repeating Arms, New Haven CT PMC 50 CAL - Bolder City NV CAL 50 - Winchester. The only non-military manufactured brass Others: FN & FNB is Fabrique National K-Brit for Kynoch Arsenal IVI-Canadian HXP- Greek DAG- German ICI ? CBC -Brazil PSD - Poongsan Metal Working, Seoul, South Korea PMJ - Made by the same makers of PSD IKI - Yugoslavian IMI - Israeli Military industries. This is the 'favored' brass right now for competition. R1M3/A80 - S. African (Berdan Primed) TE - French. The 'T' indicates Toulouse plant, the E (unknown) indicates where the brass is made. |
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