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March 5, 2009, 04:07 PM | #1 |
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Anyone recognize this headstamp?
Picked up some brass yesterday, with an unfamiliar headstamp. About 1.5" case length with a shoulder 0.25" , brass, a little wider at the base of it than at the shoulder kind of tapered. Dia. of the mouth of the case about 5/16". Markings are different too: looks like NK but the N is backwards like the Cyrillic type alphabet, and number 1977 which I would assume is the year. I looked it up on several headstamp lists but couldn't find it.
anyone have information on this? Thanks. Joe
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March 5, 2009, 04:22 PM | #2 |
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Sounds like some of the 8mm Mauser brass that I picked up at the range a few weeks ago. Headstamp looked like it was in a foreign language, but it was brass and not steel. I had to get out my calipers and load manual to determine what it was.
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March 5, 2009, 05:03 PM | #3 |
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It's Cyrillic; ИK would be "E" and "K" in English. The headstamp could be Russian, Bulgarian, or Serbian, for example.
Specifically, my reference identifies it as made at the Igman plant in Konjic. I suspect that was and is Serbia. The reference is to "Yugoslavia" because the reference predates the breakup of that Balkan state. Regards, Walt |
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