HI bought some brass at gun show a mix of Win. HXP and this type could someone please help thanks.
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HI bought some brass at gun show a mix of Win. HXP and this type could someone please help thanks.
Thank you very much I have heard that it is good brass to reload
I had that site add NNY and others head stamps many years ago and they gave me photo credit.
Privi Partisan can have either the NNY headstamp shown above or a PPU headstamp.
PPU stamped rounds in 303 174 grain FMJ are sold in Australia under the Highland brand by Highland Sports.
"nny" is the Cyrillic equivalent of "ppu" and does NOT stand for "no, not yet". The "n" is actually a simplified "pi" symbol. See Saint Cyril, the Greek chap, who along with Methodius, introduced the (sort-of Greek-based) Russian / Serb / Bulgarian etc. "Cyrillic" alphabet.
Prvi Partizan Uzice: Good brass / ammo.
For a few years in the early-mid 1990's it was imported by Jay Hansen and sold under the Hansen Cartridge Co. label until the war in the Balkans dried up his supply. All I ever saw back then was headstamped NNY and had either a red or green primer sealer, none of the current PPU/NNY ammo is sealed that I've noticed. He also imported ammo made by Igman and IMI. The Igman stuff was headstamped 1K IIRC. I haven't came across any recently but a few years ago there was brand called Hotshot on the market bearing the PPU headstamp.
I still have 6 faded but new boxes of Hansen .303 FMJ.
Other than having a boat tail, the PPU 174 gn .303 is very good.
We used to use it in our Vickers MMG's. No problems with it at all. Mind you, we weren't hitting targets as such........... just 200x fig 11 targets a hillside 4k's away