Hornady Ammunition with "Frontier" headstamp

[Jay]

Hey Guys;

I recently purchased ammunition from an estate. Upon inspecting the Hornady cartridges, I discovered a unique headstamp on them, that being "Frontier"...

So I went looking & it turns out that the 22-250 Hornady Varmint Express ammo I purchased is from 1984 or older because it was that year Hornady Bullets, Frontier Ammunition & Pacific Reloading Tools merged. And the ammo was $20.79 a box back then!

Cool 'eh?

Cheers
Jay

 

[tony d]

I bought some of that frontier stamped ammo in 1991 in Montana for my fathers 308 if I recall

 

[Jay]

I bought some of that frontier stamped ammo in 1991 in Montana for my fathers 308 if I recall

I guess they carried on using "Frontier" for a while?

 

[CaberTosser]

I guess they carried on using "Frontier" for a while?

They sure did. I have Hornady ammo that I bought about a decade ago (2006) that has the Frontier marked brass, it was .308 Win match I bought for my first Rem 700. I would doubt that your ammo is from the 1980's with that price on them, but good sleuthing on the merge date nonetheless.

 

[datoews]

Yup, 9 years ago I was still getting .270 SST 130 gr with the Frontier headstamp at WSS here in Winnipeg. I switched to reloading around the same time - it didn't turn out to be the longest lasting brass, that's for sure. But the factory loads worked well enough!

 

[p.Rundle]

expensive as **** for back in the day

 

[patricksbb391]

I bought 7mm RM from a retailer in Ottawa in fall 2016 that had that head stamp. New old stock? It was marked $39.99

 

[CaberTosser]

I wonder if the lot numbers on those have an obvious year/month in the code or if that is something that needs to be deciphered?

 

[Arclight]

It is somewhat comforting, knowing that their ammo was expensive back then too!

 

[kawicrash]

I think it's more early/mid 90's. I have some bullets I bought in 94, and they have the same gopher graphic on them.