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Old June 13, 2012, 07:08 AM   #11
Mike Irwin
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Whoops, I missed the part about it being .308.

Dark Angel is, I believe, correct.

The TWO 7 is actually the military headstamp, and is correctly read as

TW

and 70

TW is Twin Cities Ordnance Plant, and 70 is 1970, the year the round was originally manufactured.
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