Interesting Headstamp

rhino777 · Mar 25, 2019

Twas cleaning up after myself (and others

) at the range this past weekend. Sorted through the brass last night and found a few casings like this in the mix. No actual words or letters just some sort of picture. Anyone familiar with what this guy is?

Texas10mm · Mar 25, 2019

It's the Browning Stag.

rhino777 · Mar 25, 2019

Ha! A little tilt of the head and there it is. Thanks!

mdi · Mar 25, 2019

Yep, some thought the stamp was Cyrillic, or Arabic, or some other curious language, me too...

fxvr5 · Mar 25, 2019

Browning.

Charlie98 · Mar 25, 2019

That's poor marketing right there.

rfwobbly · Mar 25, 2019

It looked like Santa's sleigh to me.

LRDGCO · Mar 25, 2019

I believe this has been covered on here before and a member correctly identified that as Klingon Empire surplus. Nasty stuff. If used, apparently Valerian brandy is about the only effective solvent for the bore.

9mmepiphany · Mar 26, 2019

LRDGCO said:
I believe this has been covered on here before and a member correctly identified that as Klingon Empire surplus. Nasty stuff. If used, apparently Valerian brandy is about the only effective solvent for the bore.

I couldn't tell if you were purposely mixing series references due to the lack of a Smilie

Just in case your weren't, that should be Saurian brandy, or better yet Romulan Ale; now that the embargo has been lifted since the Dominion War.

You make a tincture with Valerian Root...unless you meant Valyrian ( the ancient empire from GoT)

LRDGCO · Mar 26, 2019

9mmepiphany said:
I couldn't tell if you were purposely mixing series references due to the lack of a Smilie

Just in case your weren't, that should be Saurian brandy, or better yet Romulan Ale; now that the embargo has been lifted since the Dominion War.

You make a tincture with Valerian Root...unless you meant Valyrian ( the ancient empire from GoT)

Saurian, indeed!

Random 8 · Mar 26, 2019

Found a bunch of these in 9mm and was checking them for berdan primers assuming it was a middle eastern language before I noticed it was the Browning buck. Bet somebody 100 years from now will seriously scratch their head over these trying to find out the source.

nevadabob · Mar 26, 2019

Here's the site for reference:

https://afte.org/resources/headstamp-guide

mdi · Mar 26, 2019

I think it's a good marketing idea. A stag head logo cannot be confused with any "Browning cartridge" , like Browning 9mm and it's easily read and unique...

Texas10mm · Mar 26, 2019

The R trademark is a big clue.

rfwobbly · Mar 26, 2019

9mmepiphany said:
Just in case your weren't, that should be Saurian brandy, or better yet Romulan Ale; now that the embargo has been lifted since the Dominion War.

That was true last year, but Trump slapped a new tariff on them.

lordpaxman · Mar 27, 2019

mdi said:
Yep, some thought the stamp was Cyrillic, or Arabic, or some other curious language, me too...

Me three. It was a year ago, and I brought up google and tried to think of what to type.... eventually found it.

LRDGCO said:
I believe this has been covered on here before and a member correctly identified that as Klingon Empire surplus.

I checked my Star Fleet references and it looks more like it's from the Borg. Resistance is futile.

GunnyUSMC · Mar 27, 2019

The Browning headstamp is not as elusive as some would think. They can be found in their natural habitat, the ammo section at gun shop.
Most often the are found in groups of 50.

tightgroup tiger · Jan 18, 2020

The black anodized case is usually a dead giveaway for it being a browning also.
I think it pretty decent brass myself.

gifbohane · Jan 18, 2020

I have a few hundred of these not loaded yet. Do any of you guys have experience with loading them? Better that Speer, WIN or Blazer?

Archie · Jan 18, 2020

I had some Browning marked cases in the early 1970s. Browning decided to quit and it disappeared. I should have kept it.

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