30-06 Military Blank Brass

[fguffey]

The majority of Lake City I have have off-center flash holes. Not sure how true this is... But I seem to recall reading that cases with off-center flash holes are from machine gun ammo lots.

I purchased thousands of LC 30/06 MATCH pull down cases from Pat's reloading in Ohio. Every case had a flash hole that was off center. If reloaders were familiar with case artifacts they would have noticed a seller on EBay was selling 8mm57 cases formed from 30/06 blanks. That was 12+ years ago. I purchases two belts of blank cases that were loaded from once fired cases in Yonkers, NY. Each case was marked.

F. Guffey

[Sunray]

"...Grenade Launcher blanks..." Not necessarily. Regular M1909 training blanks look like that too. There are all kinds of aftermarket, civilian made, and M-1999 blanks with the "star" crimp like that found on 7.62NATO and 5.56Nato training blanks. The latter case neck is usually too short to trim into a live round case.
Grenade Launch cartridges are not for use as training blanks either.
"...rejected cases were..." NOT used for producing blanks of any kind.

[Tuna]

According to DOD documents the use of rejected casing was what were to be used for the making of blanks for 30-06. Now when there were not enough cases that had been rejected then fired cases were to be used. It was not unusual to open a case of blanks and find WW2 dated brass along with brass from the 50's and 60's.

[fguffey]

Now when there were not enough cases that had been rejected then fired cases were to be used.

After the case is fired it become an ejected case. Again, I purchased two belts of blanks, all of the cases were marked, there had to be a reason for marking the cases. My opinion, they were magnificent cases.

F. Guffey

[fguffey]

http://cartridgecollectors.org/?page...-06-cartridges

F. Guffey