Identifying headstamp > Reloading

Posted: 11/21/2010 1:04:12 PM EDT

I finally got through about 90-100 lbs of 223 brass from a training course we had a couple years ago. I have been sorting them out to headstamp and have about 12 lbs of a headstamp that I do not know what it is. It is marked in the 4 quadrants individual letters and numbers. L, C, 0, 8 are marked in the quadrants. This is not LC brass, so what is it? Not crimped?

Thanks

Posted: 11/21/2010 1:13:34 PM EDT

[#1]

I believe this would be Lake City, manufactured in 2008.

Posted: 11/21/2010 1:31:15 PM EDT

[#2]

LC Måtravidèki Fèmmüvek, H-3332 Sirok, Hungary, for: Armscorp USA Inc., Baltimore, MD

Posted: 11/21/2010 1:36:17 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
I believe this would be Lake City, manufactured in 2008.

Yep, It's Lake City. If it has no primer crimp it's either been swaged/reamed out and reloaded, or it was new, unprimed LC brass that someone loaded themselves.

Posted: 11/21/2010 1:59:46 PM EDT

[#4]

So it is LC brass even if it doesn't have the cross and look like the other LC brass that I have?? No one in that group of shooters reloads to my knowledge?

It doesn't look at all like the other LC brass.

Greg

Posted: 11/21/2010 2:17:24 PM EDT

[#5]

I have a lot of what you are talking about. Some of it has the cross and some does not. From what I have learned here and from other sources, the brass without the cross does not meet the standard of the Nato specification.

Posted: 11/21/2010 3:01:36 PM EDT

[#6]

Ok, thanks.

Greg

Posted: 11/21/2010 5:15:25 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

I have a lot of what you are talking about. Some of it has the cross and some does not. From what I have learned here and from other sources, the brass without the cross does not meet the standard of the Nato specification.

The NATO cross specifies the original loaded round as a whole meets NATO spec, it's not to certify the brass

Posted: 11/21/2010 5:47:37 PM EDT

[#8]

Do they look like these?

Lake City brass

Posted: 11/21/2010 6:09:07 PM EDT

[#9]

LC without cross was loaded with a 55 gr FMJBT. aka M193

LC with a cross was loaded with a 62 gr steel penerator tip FMJBT. aks M855

SS-109 bullets, 62 gr steel penerator tip FMJBT.

Posted: 11/21/2010 7:04:09 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Do they look like these?

Lake City brass

Yes that is what it looks like.

Greg

Posted: 11/22/2010 8:03:50 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

LC without cross was loaded with a 55 gr FMJBT. aka M193

LC with a cross was loaded with a 62 gr steel penerator tip FMJBT. aks M855

Yes. M193 is a US Military spec for a 55 gr round

M855 is a NATO spec for a 62 gr round.

There is no NATO spec for 55 gr ball, nor a US military only spec for a 62 gr round

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