Picked up a box of ammo for my NRM
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That doesn't seem like the usual Winchester date stamp. It usually is all digits:
The first one or two digits are the month, and the next digit is the last digit of the year then a space followed by the day of the month.
Examples:
126 30 = December 30, 1936 or 1946 or 1956
80 23 = August 23, 1930 or 1940
Your box is clearly pre-WWII, so it was probably loaded May 10, 1939. "A" may have been a loading line designation.
Western always used a different alphanumeric dating system, and Winchester changed to the Western system sometime in the late 1950s.
The first one or two digits are the month, and the next digit is the last digit of the year then a space followed by the day of the month.
Examples:
126 30 = December 30, 1936 or 1946 or 1956
80 23 = August 23, 1930 or 1940
Your box is clearly pre-WWII, so it was probably loaded May 10, 1939. "A" may have been a loading line designation.
Western always used a different alphanumeric dating system, and Winchester changed to the Western system sometime in the late 1950s.
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