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Posted: 2/27/2016 7:49:25 PM EDT
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looks like someone decided to do a lil spring cleaning... 
i find it a little ironic that im reloading brass older than i am!!... |
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Still have thousands of 7.62 nato RA51 (1951) brass that I still use for match loads.
So the stuff you are showing is newer brass from a young pups collection that he thinks is old isntead. 
FYI, the win and the LC cases you have where both produced by Win, since it was Olin that was running the LC plant back in 1970. |
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Shoot, I've got some 9mm and 45 acp brass from the 1940's. When I got started in the late 60's there was still a lot of stuff left over from WW2. There was still WW2 surplus ammo around for a bargain price, but by that time it was drying up pretty quick. One of the first guns I bought was an M1 carbine in about 1966, surplus 30 carbine ammo was cheap and available, by about 1970 all the cheap surplus 30 carbine ammo was gone, you could still find it if you looked hard enough, but it was scarce enough that it wasn't cheap anymore! That's why the very first cartridge I tried to reload was...taadaa! 30 carbine |
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I consider only pre 1945 brass as "old," and I still shoot it. My favorite lots of brass are LC 67/68 3006 brass, and TW67 556 brass.
I lost most of my 1918 brass due to neck cracks before I annealed the survivors. That FA 30 brass lasts forever. I gave most of it away to someone on this board who likes old brass/ammo. 
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http://<a href=http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y363/gaboy1581/20160227_181450_zps8rqhcb3w.jpg</a>" /> looks like someone decided to do a lil spring cleaning...
i find it a little ironic that im reloading brass older than i am!!... 68 & 70 is old ??  Hell i got underwear older than that 
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LOL
I tell the young.... Don't expect to be the youngest, oldest, smartest, dumbest, fastest, or slowest, if the sample size is really the world stage. Real six sigma values are worth celebrating if they are for excellence. I am constantly being introduced to young prodigies and senior celebrities (not the entertainment types.) It makes life interesting. The trick is to take good care of yourself so you can enjoy the journey and live long enough to have the young ones give you those funny looks when you pull out your ancient brass. |
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While going through my 30.06 brass I sorted out several pieces from back in the 1940's. I got enough of it that I loaded up one 8 round clip for the M1 I don't shoot anymore (November 1944 SA with the original barrel, lockbar sights and beautiful wood) and I put it with the rifle.
Every now and then when I'm at the range I find some steel .45 acp brass with dates back around 1943 or so. I figure I'll load those up with some FMJ bullets, Winchester primers (they had brass colored primers in them, not nickel) and put them away with my old 1917 Colt 1911. I don't know who is shooting up that old steel cased .45 acp ammo or what they are shooting it in, I just find some every few months when I manage to hit the range the same day or the next day after it was shot. |
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