Neat Old Round - WCC 41

[Jersey Devil]

This .30 caliber round was found rolling around in the surf off Sandy Hook National Park, NJ.

The shoulder of the case has a slight bend to it, but appears to be in otherwise amazing condition and when I shake it I can hear dry powder inside. This is an awesome find for sure!!

[RDS]

Neat find.

[RDS]

Brian
Years ago I meet a WWII Army vet. His duty station was some where on the Jersey shore where he patrolled the beach armed with a 03/A3. I can only guess that Sandy Hook had US Army soldiers patrolling the beaches.

[Phil McGrath]

Cool, drop it in the tumbler and let it run for a week.

[RCS]

I am missing three rounds of WCC 41 to complete my early Winchester clip. I have never seen any headstamps from Winchester before 1941, but they could exist. I do have Winchester headstamps
from WW1 and post WW1. Be nice to find a WCC 40 if there is one !

[CCyooper]

If there are any 1940 head stamps they would be very rare. FA was the only plant making any ammo during the interim period. Remington had a few small contracts but real production was not awarded to the civilian firms until mid 1940 under educational orders (after Dunkirk) under a plan developed by Remington/FA. I actually have not been able to confirm it but I do not believe WCC started producing finished military ammo until early 1941. WCC in addition to getting there own line up and running were also very busy getting the production for the SL plant set up, which delivered their first rounds in Dec 41. Kind of interesting that companies such as Willys-overland provided the cores for armor piercing shells, etc. At first it was really a crunch then it became a real team effort.. For example up until 1941 Russell was the only company that made cloth machine gun belts, had something to do with a patent...later Russel relaxed the requirement and the Gov't modified the belt so other companies could make them. Nice early cut out clip! I'll start looking for some 41 and 40 WCC rounds.

[RCS]

I made a quick check of some of my 30-06 cartridges (I used to collected them ) and found the following:

F A 41 with gray stannic stain bullet, F A 41 with copper ball bullet and RA 41 Z with special primer and powder. Remington was loading this for the RAF aircraft machine guns but it also became issued to US ground troops. Some of this RA 41 Z even got to the Philippines before the Japanese in 1941. Also have the WCC 41 too.

I did find some F A 36NM and F A 38 ball which are cal 30M1 cartridges and total weight is more than the F A 37 cartridge with the stannic stain gray bullet in my collection.

[RCS]

Forgot to post this photo of the 30-03, 30-06, 30M1 and early 30M2 with stannic stain on the bullet so you know it is not 30M1 ball