110 years old and still thumping

[Mikej]

Page 12 if you need to reorder some more.

https://cartridgecollectors.org/content/catalogs/WESTERN/WCC-1965-2%20Jan-Wholesale%20PL.pdf

Just out of curiosity, what's the head stamp on the old Western brass?

Just noticed on the link. Head stamp is WCC. Duh. Western Cartridge Company

 

[bpyycpyy]

Just out of curiosity, what's the head stamp on the old Western brass?

Just noticed on the link. Head stamp is WCC. Duh. Western Cartridge Company

I'm away from home to take photos but maybe @P7M13 can and give a little peek?

 

[Mikej]

I'm away from home to take photos but maybe @P7M13 can and give a little peek?

No worries. In your link it says Western/WCC. I've seen that stamp on brass before. Probably on some of the old brass I had from when my dad got out of the Navy in 1947. Likely .30-06

 

[ageingstudent]

A shout of thanks to @bpyycpyy - he gave me a full old box of 35 Rem ammo.
Thoughtful gestures make the world go 'round.
Stays with the gun - I ain't shootin' it unless its my last 20 rounds in a dug-in fight...

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That's really cool

 

[Tlock]

Ron and Doug are awesome! I try to stop in once a week and bs, it's been a while now. They always treat me right

 

[coop44]

I want to be still thumping at 110.
Hey somebody was going to say it!

 

[bpyycpyy]

Just out of curiosity, what's the head stamp on the old Western brass?

Just noticed on the link. Head stamp is WCC. Duh. Western Cartridge Company

Here is a photo of said headstamp. Also found a box of Peters (edges taped) that I thought was Western before pulling out of the drawer. The Peters is a little corroded (might need to do some wirebrushing).

 

[tac]

164 years old and still making KA-boom.....



.58cal Pritchett Volunteer rifle made by Robert Taylor Pritchett hisself. Co-inventor of the Pritchett bullet with Mr Metford.

 

[ma96782]

This old gal was pumping out 12 ga shotgun shells just this weekend. She has been around since 1911.

Aloha, Mark

PS....and since I love the movie.

 

[Jason999]

Welcome to the Remington model 8 club! Lovely lil rifles, I've never had a jam of any sort with mine.

 

[Gaucho Gringo]

Battleship Texas. 112 years old. Not thumping anymore but when she did, watch out!. In dry dock for a much neded $35 million repair and refit. If only the old girl could talk.

 

[ma96782]

Since you made me look it up.

https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/the-remington-model-8-a-look-back/

Aloha, Mark

 

[Ura-Ki]

Love the Mod-8/81's have three of um now, a .30 Remington, a .308 Winchester conversion, and the .35 Rem. Of the three, the littlist .30 Rem is the sweetest shooting, but the .308 is the meanie of them, though I find the .35 kicks the hardest, go figure! Don't have a 81 yet, still on the hunt, would love to find one in .300 Savage or one of the other nifty caliber conversions Ed Shillin was famous for, but alas, I'll settle for any I can find!

I have really come to appreciate the Sheer Genius of J.M. Browning in his Designs, so I have endeavored to find as many as I can afford, between the 1895's the Remington Autoloaders and Mod-8/81's the 1911's and BHP's as well as the 1893 and 1897's, Were getting closer to nirvana!

 

[ma96782]

RE : Post #31

Aloha, Mark

 

[bionic knees]

anoth er 110 year old that still works and looks good too.