Geezerbiker
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I must be really bored tonight since I wasn't planning to go though this old ammo for a long time... Anyway I have over 100 rounds of old .30-30 ammo and most of it was poorly stored so I ran it all though my tumbler since the media was getting close to replacement time anyway.
They look sort of OK but the plan always was to tear them down some day when I was bored enough to feel like recovering the components. In with the mix was one .35-35 round and one .32 Win special rounds that will join my odd ball ammo collection.
Most of the rounds are the usual R-P, Rem-UMC, Win SuperX and FC head stamps. Then we get to the odd stuff. There's a bunch of Peters rounds. I know Peters in the P in R-P but I couldn't find when Remington stopped using that name. There are some head stamped Superspeed and I seem to recall that was another Winchester brand.
There are a few that look really freaking old. One is head stamped WRA .30 WCF and I have a USC Co. .30-30. These really old looking ones have very rounded primers like is usually only seen on antique ammo. I suspect this have mercuric primers and might not be safe to try and deprime.
Anybody familiar with these head stamped rounds?
Tony
They look sort of OK but the plan always was to tear them down some day when I was bored enough to feel like recovering the components. In with the mix was one .35-35 round and one .32 Win special rounds that will join my odd ball ammo collection.
Most of the rounds are the usual R-P, Rem-UMC, Win SuperX and FC head stamps. Then we get to the odd stuff. There's a bunch of Peters rounds. I know Peters in the P in R-P but I couldn't find when Remington stopped using that name. There are some head stamped Superspeed and I seem to recall that was another Winchester brand.
There are a few that look really freaking old. One is head stamped WRA .30 WCF and I have a USC Co. .30-30. These really old looking ones have very rounded primers like is usually only seen on antique ammo. I suspect this have mercuric primers and might not be safe to try and deprime.
Anybody familiar with these head stamped rounds?
Tony