Topic: New Headstamps

[Ed Love]

I'm going to try this again. 3rd time. Here are some new ones to be added to our "guide". These are all 7.62x54R.

1. Albania - 1987, the 3 at 6:00 is probably a cyrillic 'Z'
2. Bulgaria - Fact. code 10, year 2000
3. Hungaria - Fact. code 21, year 1974
4. Iran - Year 2007; Unident. #7
5. Iraq - Fact. code 03, 54 (for 7.62x54), year 87 (1987)
6. Romania - Fact. code 22, year 1977
7. Romania - Fact. code 325, year 1985
8. Romania - No fact. code, year 1988
9. Russia - Fact. code 17, year 1983

[Ed Love]

A few additional 7.62x54R:

1. Iraq - Al Yarmouk Defense Industries, 7.62x54, 78 (1978)
2. Poland - Fact. code 21, year 1976
3. Poland - Fact. code 343, year 1955
4. Russian - Fact. code 188, year 1974
5. Russian - Fact. code 17, year 1976 (raised numbers)
6. Czech - Fact. code bxn, year 1985
7. Yugoslavia (Bosnia) - No fact. code, 7.62x54R, year 2004

[Ed Love]

A few 9mm entries:

1. Iraq - Fact. code 03, 9 (for 9mm), 86 (1986)
2. Iraq - Iraq Defense Industries, 9mm, 76 (1976)
3. Syria - 9 (9mm), 66 (1966)
4. Pakistan - Pakistan Ordnance Factory, year 2005, 9MM
5. Sweden - Fact. code 070, year 1978
6. Poland - Fact. code 21, year 2004
7. Bulgaria - Fact. code 10, year 2003
8. Iran - No fact. code, 2005

[Richard Hitchcox]

Ed,

Thanks for the new headstamp submissions.

I'll try to get the headstamp guide updated soon to include all of your submissions plus any others that haven't yet been added. 

Richard

[drmarkwg]

I could not find this head stamp in our gallery. Hopefully someone can identify it.

[curtito]

This is a commercial Nagant cartridge made by GFL (Fiocchi, Italy)

[kingofcoins]

Hi folks ! Great site....I joined up to offer the odd headstamps I notice while sorting brass for retail auctions. If you need some brass or coins let me know.

[50M2HB]

.50 BMG (12.7x99) caliber M8 Armor Piercing Incendiary ammunition, loaded in the US and marketed by DS Arms of Barrington Illinois, utilizing demilled bullets and powder, but on New Primed Empty (NPE) brass from the United Arab Emirates company Adcom.  Brass, percussion, primer, purple sealant, 3-stab crimp.  Ammunition packaged in plain white cardboard boxes (10 or 25 rounds), with white paper labels and black printing.  New product line, circa 2010.  Note the positioning of the headstamp elements, date and caliber are reversed from 5.56 caliber example currently in AFTE headstamp DB.

[GregM1]

Hi everyone. Just joined up to add to the information pool.


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DWM 9x23 Steyr

[GregM1]

Mannlicher 7.65

[GregM1]

GFL 9M38

[GregM1]

Hirtenberger 9x23 Steyr Patrol Ammuntion w close up of factory stamp on a matching stripper clip.

[50M2HB]

7.62 NATO Caliber M62 Tracer, orange tip, brass case, brass percussion boxer non-corrosive primer. ring primer crimp, no visible primer sealant. 147 grain bullet with knurled crimp cannelure.   From tan 20-round cardboard box with black printing.  Sample is from a lot of "factory seconds" from Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, but marketed by Federal Ammunition for the commercial US market as "XM62."  Original DoD intended production that failed QC acceptance standards, usually for appearances.  In this example tip colors ranged from 90% to virtually missing.  Circa 2010  Unlike other examples of LC headstamps in the AFTE DB, this (being 7.62) doesn't have the "dot" headstamp markings of SCAMP production.  Except for box markings, might easily be confused with "stolen" miliitary inventory.

[50M2HB]

1956 production .303 Caliber by Radway Green of UK.  Copper percussion Berdan primer, ring crimp, purple primer sealant.  Ball projectile, smooth bullet cannelure, brass case.  From 32 round tan cardboard box with gray label and green printing.  Black ink lot number rubber stamped.   In this example, the Mark # in the headstmap is numeric rather than a Roman Numeral 

[50M2HB]

.50 BMG (12.7x99) caliber M33 Ball, imported for the civilian/commercial US market in 2010.  From Olive Drab M2A1 ammunition cans, linked 4:1 with M17 Tracer.  (Tracers removed before distribution.)  Brass case, nickel percussioin primer, green primer sealant, ring primer crimp.  FMJBT bullet, copper jacket, mild steel core, twin (smooth) bullet cannelures (1 ID, 1 crimping).  Produced by Charter Industries Singapore (now ST Kinnetics).  Headstamp code is caliber & date, (not mfgr code) and translates to 1989 production