22 LR Punta Hueca ammo ??
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That's a neat 'find' there. From the tarnish they may be fairly old so I wouldn't fire them in a semi until you do a few in a bolt. And DO Save the box c- you may never see another unless you travel waaay south.
Every once in a while someone at my range tosses a 'classic' ammo box and I grab 'em. I've even taken some apart and 'steam-ironed' them to make 'em presentable again. Maybe your can accept a plastic bullet holder to 'straighten out' that ammo, too.
PS - just saw the 'Super X' msg - I'd still be careful re a semi. Or just because they're 'Win-crapter'.
Every once in a while someone at my range tosses a 'classic' ammo box and I grab 'em. I've even taken some apart and 'steam-ironed' them to make 'em presentable again. Maybe your can accept a plastic bullet holder to 'straighten out' that ammo, too.
PS - just saw the 'Super X' msg - I'd still be careful re a semi. Or just because they're 'Win-crapter'.
- Location
- Western Manitoba
How about somebody has a Punta box - dumps in some Win because that box fell apart - then tosses whole thing into trash? Is nothing to connect what is in the box, to the label of that box ...
I think your right.
I bought a case and a half of it maybe 20, 25 years ago. I can't remember where, maybe MacLeod's, maybe Co-op. It was cheap and not bad gopher ammo. Probably on par with the old Winchester power point, maybe? I still have at least one unopened brick and a few loose boxes.
This thread brings back memories of when Sears used to have these on for '$1.49 days' and I would stock up on their $14.99 (no GST then) bricks.
Decent ammo for a decent (even then) price, good gopher medicine and I found these last two boxes at the back of my ammo locker.
These were later 'Canadian Tire' purchases, but by then inflation had already set in.
Maybe they really were 'the good old days'.
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- Location
- Western Manitoba
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This thread brings back memories of when Sears used to have these on for '$1.49 days' and I would stock up on their $14.99 (no GST then) bricks.
Decent ammo for a decent (even then) price, good gopher medicine and I found these last two boxes at the back of my ammo locker.
In your first picture, I can not make out the head stamp - can you tell us what that is - or perhaps post a close up picture to show it? It still astounds me that Winchester might have allowed a trade-marked product to be sold under another brand name - simply not what "modern" lawyers, marketers, etc. would allow - no doubt Winchester could make those for someone else to sell under their brand or logo - but I am still hung up that they would have used their own trade-mark on it. Mixing who made it, with who sold it, is becoming more common, I think - I have factory new sealed bags of brass labeled and sold by RUAG AmmoTec USA - near as I can determine, the parent company is RUAG in Switzerland - the brass is head stamped "MFS" - which is a Hungarian brass maker. I am not real certain, but I think "MFS" might be a successor brand to older "RWS" - which had a terrific reputation.
As far as I can determine, in last part of 20th century, there were a number of companies who sold stuff, but never made anything - so like Tanross Supply Co. of Florida, USA (Tasco), RUKO (in Canada), Herter's Inc. - they all sold lots of stuff with their own brand or logo on it - almost all of it made by someone else - hence some have opinions about "Tasco" scopes - yet Tasco never made a single scope - although they sold lots of them - various models from cheapest crap to probably the best in the world - at that time. Is no reason, that I know of, to know that a Herter's product bought in 2002, was made by the same maker as in 1992, or in 1982 - although all will have the same "brand name" on it.
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Definitely SuperX headstamps.
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Interesting also that the originally printed 'Hi Vel 37 HP' on each box flap was over-written in pen by hand to read '39', when you think how many boxes would have been printed during it's production run.
Definitely SuperX headstamps.
Interesting also that the originally printed 'Hi Vel 37 HP' on each box flap was over-written in pen by hand to read '39', when you think how many boxes would have been printed during it's production run.
- Location
- Western Manitoba
Thank you, DaveF, for pictures in Post #14. It appears from Google that Punta Hueca might mean "hollow point" - so the brand name is likely "Orbea" who is now a bicycle maker in Spain, but used to make firearms. Is something that I would not have expected - perhaps Winchester (Super X) - Olin Corp - might have actually owned or leased the Orbea brand, then? And is especially curious, as you note, that so many boxes would have had that "7" overwritten to be "9" - must have been important to someone?? Does not appear to have been visible until the box flap was opened ...
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If they are already making the brass with their headstamp then it would cost them more money to make brass with someone elses. If they don't have market share in Argentina then I don't see how it would make a difference to them, and even if they did it could be more profitable to them to sell to Orbea if Orbea had a large market share in comparison to Winchester.
