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Unread 08-02-2009, 10:01 AM   #1
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An amazing piece! I agree the details are a little off but just boggles the mind what some of these guys are cranking out of their own home/shop! Even the tooling and crafstmanship alone is incredible, being a metalworker myself, i can really appreciate all the effort
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W.B.,

I'm not sure what you are trying to say. Whatever it is, it looks original and authentic and old. I don't think somebody "faked" it in his workshop, and these don't look like reloads. I just don't know what it is or when it was made. But I imagine it came from F.N., as marked...sometime or other. But then, who knows?
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W.B.,

I'm not sure what you are trying to say...
Phil -

He's talking about the $4000 Mauser...You know...the original topic...
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Sorry for the delay. Spent some time looking at Simpson's newly listed Cone Hammers. Looking for an appropriate CH with matching stock, .....

Regarding the hand made, I agree 100% it's great. You guys playing metal machines at home knew how hard it is to create one. I am thinking about creating a wood one at home if possible. Hard.

The ammo.... please take a look. Thanks for joining discussion!
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Postino,

My brain got tangled up.

Alvin,

Great pics of the case heads. At this point, can you determine the exact vintage?
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I hope I knew. Looks like being FN no doubt, but I could not identify the year. Some FN cartridges have two digits on the head telling the year ... F N 70, F N 57. Not sure that's a post WWII practice or not, 1957 and 1970?

But what's F N * ?
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That's what I was wondering...just when they started putting on year digits.
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Unread 08-03-2009, 09:56 PM   #8
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Here is a "40" on a 1940 FN 8x57 AP. The following page has quite a few headstamps, including some FN ones, but I did not see the combination of FN and *

http://www.surplusrifleforum.com/vie...p?f=134&t=5807
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