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I was out in the shed doing some spring cleaning and found these while going through my late step-dads things. Neato! I never knew that he had a 32-20 but clearly he came across some ammo at some point. He was a Winchester collector though, had quite a few pre-war 94's. I wish I had his dads 94 rifle. Lot of history on that gun, it was on his saddle when he homesteaded the ranch I grew up on. But enough of that. Just wanted to share some neat old ammo with you folks.
Not the best picture of the headstamp.
Any body know why the half jacket is shiny on most of these?
I agree with Pete44ru that two of those look to be of larger caliber. Can you see if they're different? What might they be? Neat going through old stuff; never know what you will find.
M. M. Wright wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2017 9:20 am
I think those jackets are what was called "Cupro Nickel" and it doesn't corrode very much or maybe not at all.
Larger ones look to be 32-20 and the smaller might be 25-20
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Sorry for the delay, life got ahead of me for a bit. Got frustrated trying to repair the lawn mower this afternoon and went and grabbed these and cleaned them up to read the headstamp.
They are all 32-20 but with some interesting markings! One is marked 32 W.C.F. W.R.A. CO. with a W marked primer, the other 6 are marked 32 W.H.V. M-92 W.R.A. CO. which after some internet sleuthing I found out were special high velocity rounds meant only to be fired in the model '92 rifles. I couldn't find any dates for when these headstamps went out of use but it's still a neat find to me. Wish the old man was still around to ask him.
I took several pictures but this was the only one that came out worth a darn.