🔎 UNIDENTIFIED No headstamp need help identifying

[tinner]

Hello everyone,
I dug a couple shell casings with no headstamps and wondering if there is anyone out there that can help Identify them.
I dug them at an early 1900's or older homestead (I don't recall how deep they were). The ends on both were corroded away so they had been there for quit some time.
The longer of the 2 had been painted red at one time, you can still see some of the red if you look close. Im not sure why someone would have been painted or dyed
I had to tumble them to clean them up as both were amost unrecognizable.
They are about the size of a .308 cal.
thanks!!

 

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[pistol-pete]

I'm guessing 30-06 badly corroded and partly gone. in 1918 Remington made some army cases with heads that looked like that, would have been marked in the outer rim R A 18. rub the heads with fine sandpaper and see if any marks show up.

 

[tinner]

I'm guessing 30-06 badly corroded and partly gone. in 1918 Remington made some army cases with heads that looked like that, would have been marked in the outer rim R A 18. rub the heads with fine sandpaper and see if any marks show up.

Thanks for the information, I tried the sandpaper thing and found no markings around the rims. I thing these are going down as a big mystery. I don't think sanding them down more will find anything, do you?

 

[WoodsDigger]

Hello everyone,
I dug a couple shell casings with no headstamps and wondering if there is anyone out there that can help Identify them.
I dug them at an early 1900's or older homestead (I don't recall how deep they were). The ends on both were corroded away so they had been there for quit some time.
The longer of the 2 had been painted red at one time, you can still see some of the red if you look close. Im not sure why someone would have been painted or dyed
I had to tumble them to clean them up as both were amost unrecognizable.
They are about the size of a .308 cal.
thanks!!

I have seen the primers covered in a red paint. I always thought it was a hand load. Might be factory QC at some time period.

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Straight wall rimless 30 cal? m1 30 carbine. check the length against he SAAMI spec. Primer looks a tad flattened, must have been hot loaded.