Re: WRA 69 Brass
Yes it should should have a crimp.
Good luck
Jerry
Yes it should should have a crimp.
Good luck
Jerry
Re: WRA 69 Brass
YES... I have swaged the primer pockets on a ton of it in the past.
YES... I have swaged the primer pockets on a ton of it in the past.
Re: WRA 69 Brass
OK, so I am bit confused. I thought only LC (non match) had the crimp. When did Winchester ammo start or stop having crimped pockets? Was it just the WRA versus the WIN headstamps? Did all the vietman era 7.62 ammo have the crimp. I have a couple thousand rounds of TW (Twin City Arsenal), I wounder if it does as well.
OK, so I am bit confused. I thought only LC (non match) had the crimp. When did Winchester ammo start or stop having crimped pockets? Was it just the WRA versus the WIN headstamps? Did all the vietman era 7.62 ammo have the crimp. I have a couple thousand rounds of TW (Twin City Arsenal), I wounder if it does as well.
Re: WRA 69 Brass
Military ammo has a crimp. If it's made by LC, WRA, WCC, RA, or some other foreign mfg. it will 99% of the time have a crimp.
Some of the civie ammo that's made to mil-spec has a crimp on it too.
(I say 99% of the time because I'm sure if I say "always" someone will prove me wrong with something I've never seen or heard of before)
Military ammo has a crimp. If it's made by LC, WRA, WCC, RA, or some other foreign mfg. it will 99% of the time have a crimp.
Some of the civie ammo that's made to mil-spec has a crimp on it too.
(I say 99% of the time because I'm sure if I say "always" someone will prove me wrong with something I've never seen or heard of before)
Re: WRA 69 Brass
WRA with the last two digits of the year of production is the way Winchester's conglomerate marked its USGI contract ball ammo.
In 5.56 M193 stuff (pre-NATO adoption), Winchester had its WCC division making the mousegun ammo. They might have had others involved, too, but that's all I saw in that caliber. Headstamps are WCC with [XX] year opposite the WCC. All was ball, all was crimped that I've ever seen.
There's a lot more to USGI ammo production than LCAAP, especially during the Vietnam years--a small war in general, yet much larger an operation at its peak (more than a half-million troops IN THEATRE) than our current pathetic efforts to control Iraq and Afghanistan.
Back then, ammo was really in production, at multiple facilities.
WRA with the last two digits of the year of production is the way Winchester's conglomerate marked its USGI contract ball ammo.
In 5.56 M193 stuff (pre-NATO adoption), Winchester had its WCC division making the mousegun ammo. They might have had others involved, too, but that's all I saw in that caliber. Headstamps are WCC with [XX] year opposite the WCC. All was ball, all was crimped that I've ever seen.
There's a lot more to USGI ammo production than LCAAP, especially during the Vietnam years--a small war in general, yet much larger an operation at its peak (more than a half-million troops IN THEATRE) than our current pathetic efforts to control Iraq and Afghanistan.
Back then, ammo was really in production, at multiple facilities.
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