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Unread 06-06-2016, 06:53 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by rhuff View Post
I may be wrong(happens often), but I believe that the L C 43 is for Lake City ammo plant, and the cartridge/shell was manufactured in 1943.
Correct! I Googled Lake City Ammo and found their website. They actually had a photo of the identical (1943) headstamp on a 50 cal. shell casing on the Wikipedia main page. That made for a quick and easy i.d. . Thank you.
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