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Mixed head stamps.

bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443 ✭
edited April 2014 in General Discussion
I'm tumbling, depriming and sorting approx 2100 pieces of mixed 9mm brass.
(Bot from an excellent seller and member of GBGD)

The usual Winchester, some Blazer, a couple of tullammo, some 380 as would be expected, so far one piece of IMI Carb 9mm (which is kind of cool to me, not having seen one before).

But this is kind of weird. And I'm hoping for som help from you fine folk.

Every 50 or 60 pieces are marked NIW 6ww.

They look just like 9mm brass. I got out my micrometer and checked them. Well within specs.

What should I do? I pulled them and set them aside to deal with later. Are they safe to use??
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  • yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 22,059 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Some dyslexic person was working on the type set. 6ww should've been WW6 (upside down 9MM) [:D].
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  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443 ✭
    edited November -1
    Ahhhh.
    They must have done the WIN upside down as well?

    That would be NIM.

    What a bunch of idiots!!
    The entire head stamp was printed upside down!!!???


    They are actually WIN 9mm!!!

    Idiots!!
    I might sue them.
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  • NavybatNavybat Member Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No, no....it's like the "upside down" Jenny stamp all those years ago. That brass must be worth a FORTUNE! [:D]
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  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    did they have regul too ? [;)]
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  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
    did they have regul too ? [;)]


    I saw some of those!!!

    But I figured I'd use them when I was practicing shooting with my left hand.
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  • Laredo LeftyLaredo Lefty Member Posts: 13,451 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have found some of those over the years, usually when I am drunk, standing on my head and looking in a mirror.
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  • moonshinemoonshine Member Posts: 8,471
    edited November -1
    [quoteI have found some of those over the years, usually when I am drunk, standing on my head and looking in a mirror.][/quote]

    Does that happen often?
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  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,459 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    those are to be used in chrome or polished stainless steel pistols ONLY!!!!!!!!!! if you look while holding them up to the pistol, you can read the headstamp in the reflection.
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  • sgm hagsgm hag Member Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In a bag full of 9mm I bought from a collector friend I found several that had a double ring primer seat. When I asked him what it meant he suggested they were machine gun rounds. I never heard of that before. When I fired off a mag full of mixed mfg. rounds, the double ringers seemed to have a louder Crack sound. Or was I dreaming?
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