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FA 9 07 headstamp
May 20th, 2013 at 12:28pm
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I was lookng through some containers of brass/old ammo and came across a round I cannot remember where it came from. It was exceedingly dirty and since I was looking for exceedingly dirty brass to run with some ceramic I tossed it into the tumbler (yes a single loaded round running in ceramic with water/cleaner and a bunch of other dirty brass). What came out is a very nice looking 30-06(?) with the headstamp with the following in four quadrants   F, A, 9, 07. Is this a vintage 30-06 from Frankfort Arsenal with it's cupro-nickel jacketed bullet?

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Reply #1 - May 20th, 2013 at 2:45pm
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yep Frankford Aresnal in 1907
  
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Reply #2 - May 20th, 2013 at 3:33pm
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It sounds like a keeper to me.

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Reply #3 - May 21st, 2013 at 2:42pm
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I imagine the primer and powder are dead after being tumbled in water/cleaner....

Somewhere I have an 8mm Lebel round I found between some cobblestones at Panzer Kaserne in Boeblingen, Germany (just south of Stuttgart). Rommel was at Panzer for a short time before going to Afrika. Always wondered how that round found its way there. 

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Re: FA 9 07 headstamp
Reply #4 - May 22nd, 2013 at 2:38am
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Please do not assume that the cartridge is inert - a member of our club put his 7x57 cases through a water/cleaner cycle and found that he had included primed cases and two cartridges.  Pulled the bullets from the cartridges and the powder look good.  Tried the primed cases and every primer fired.  The cases were tumbled for two hours.

  
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Re: FA 9 07 headstamp
Reply #5 - May 22nd, 2013 at 7:04am
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Many years ago while swimming in a river in middle Tennessee. We found a wooden case of .30-06 tracer ammo that evidently was from WW II training maneuvers by General George Patton. Many of the cases were split but most of the ones that weren't fired. This after many years underwater. Consider your tumbled round good.
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Re: FA 9 07 headstamp
Reply #6 - May 22nd, 2013 at 1:01pm
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Round nosed bullet?  Check the case length & the neck length against a modern .30-06 case.  It may be a .30-03.  Don't know when .30-03 production ended at FA.
  
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Reply #7 - May 24th, 2013 at 1:52pm
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30-03??? Hmmm, have to check. The bullet is a spitzer, not round nose.

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