Help on Identifying 30-06 Brass Manufacture

Ivan9686

June 11, 2013 12:33

I just picked up some range brass and I don't recognize the head stamp on some. Can someone help with the following and which are military rounds with crimped primers?

HXP
FC
TW
K
LKA

Thanks

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  charliemeyer007

  June 11, 2013 12:57

  Good visual inspection will tell you which primers are crimped. The usual style is a full ring, there are some that use 3 dashes at about 120 degree spacing.
  
  I hand deprime with a punch and a base those crimped primers and ream the crimp with a lyman hand tool. A clip blade pocket knife will work if you are careful. There are primer pocket swages that work in your press, some are better designed/working than others.
  
  I think FC are federal and TW is twin city
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headstamp

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  375H&H

  June 11, 2013 14:05

  HXP = Greek Powder & Cartridge Company, Athens, Greece
  
  FC = Departmento de la Industrial Militar, Mexico City, Mexico OR
  Federal Cartridge Corp., Anoka, MN 55303 OR
  Prvi Partizan, Titovo, Uzice 31000, Yugoslavia
  
  TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant, Minneapolis, MN
  
  K = Karlsborg Arsenal, Karlsborg, Sweden OR
  Kirkee Arsenal, Poona-3, Kirkee, India OR
  
  Kynoch Factories, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.,
  Birmingham, England OR
  
  Probably Kaunas Arsenal, Kaunas, Lithuania
  
  LKA = ( nothing listed for this marking )
  
  http://cartridgecollectors.org/?page=headstampcodes

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