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WW1 7.92mm

Bullet Mick

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Hello i picked up these WW1 German 7.92mm rounds and im looking for a bit of help. Ive found that S67 means the cartridge case alloy 67% copper, the other numbers are the month and year of manufacture and the G is Wrttembergische Metallwarenfabrik, Geislingen/Steige. Its the markings on the bottom of the bullets i can find no info on. They all look to be the same stamp but some are not as good as others. Any help would be great. Cheers Mick.

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There are two kinds of bullets.
One with a mix from lead and antimony, one with only lead.
Around 1917 the Germans stopped hardening the lead of the S bullet that was normally 2, 5 % of antimony.
The character was chanced from gothic / non gothic and the other way around.

Rgds

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