9mm Head Stamp DAG & LY I6

[gwashorn]

OK, doing some reloading for 9mm with some brass I bought a couple of months ago here. Nice stuff and very happy. Been doing great. One of the bags I now occassionally have one that does not deprime. I don't push hard, I just take out and toss. Well I broke a depriming pin today, bent it actually, and I had a couple of them that would not deprimed. After I was done I checked them out and one was a DAG with a primer hole so small I could not get through it with my pin. The other has an L on side and Y on the other of the head stamp and then what looks like an I6 maybe centered 90 degrees out from the L & Y. It has two hole, NOT in the center but off to each side. So I have never seen these. Not sure what to say but wanted to make note to others.

[Jumping Frog]

There are two different priming systems in common usage. In the United States, it is most typically Boxer primed which is a single flash hole in the center. In Europe, the Berdan system is commonly used which has two holes.

Berdan-primered cases are not reloadable using the typical tools. There are people that attempt to convert by hand-drilling flash holes, but 9mm brass is so darn common and cheap I never saw the point. I just throw them in the scrap bucket.





When I sold brass, I almost always visually inspected it for Boxer brass, tossing the Berdan. If you bought that brass from me, I apologize.

BTW, DAG is "Dynamit Nobel A-G, Troisdorf, Germany, (previously Geco and DNG Gustav Genchow, Karlsruhe)"


The LY is "China North Industries Corp., (NORINCO), 7A Yue Tan Nan Jie, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China"

[gwashorn]

thanks and it was not a biggy for me. I do not remember where I got these from. I think the batch was great. I do a slow down stroke on my Dillion 1050. If I feel it hit and not give, I back off. No biggy, just the first ones I had come across now in 2 years. Great pics and info though. thanks.