Can you date these boxes?

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23 September 2017, 05:04

ElCaballero

Can you date these boxes?

I'm guessing late 70's early 80's?

23 September 2017, 05:32

ElCaballero

Well apparently photobucket wants me to pay them $400 a year now. Pretty sure I'm going to tell them to kiss my ass! Maybe this will work:

http://i17.photobucket.com/alb...ballero/IMG_0610.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/alb...ballero/IMG_0611.jpg

23 September 2017, 09:10

eagle27

Nope doesn't work, you gotta pay for them to host 3rd party now. Go to Imgur, free and use is much easier than PB ever was.

23 September 2017, 19:08

ElCaballero

Here we go!

23 September 2017, 23:34

ElCaballero

Got it!

24 September 2017, 00:01

JJB

quote:
Originally posted by ElCaballero:
Well apparently photobucket wants me to pay them $400 a year now. Pretty sure I'm going to tell them to kiss my ass! Maybe this will work:

http://i17.photobucket.com/alb...ballero/IMG_0610.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/alb...ballero/IMG_0611.jpg

$400?????????????????

24 September 2017, 00:37

RIP

Could be circa 1964 vintage, as is this David Ommanney "Our Man in Africa" ad:

A more definitive answer will require "sumbuddy who know."

Rip
.

24 September 2017, 04:32

ElCaballero

Thanks RIP! They came with my latest Whitworth purchase and they were full!

24 September 2017, 04:44

Grenadier

Winchester has long had a habit of stamping lot numbers on the inside of the flaps. Sometimes they are cryptic, sometimes not. Sometimes they add a separate date code. What's stamped inside the flaps?

24 September 2017, 06:28

ElCaballero

quote:
Originally posted by Grenadier:
Winchester has long had a habit of stamping lot numbers on the inside of the flaps. Sometimes they are cryptic, sometimes not. Sometimes they add a separate date code. What's stamped inside the flaps?

24 September 2017, 10:30

Grenadier

Production line or operator 54, 12 March, 1969
Production line or operator 93, 2 March, 1969

24 September 2017, 16:59

ElCaballero

quote:
Originally posted by Grenadier:
Production line or operator 54, 12 March, 1969
Production line or operator 93, 2 March, 1969

Cool thanks! Older than I thought!

26 September 2017, 08:22

tenmikemike

quote:
Originally posted by Grenadier:
Production line or operator 54, 12 March, 1969
Production line or operator 93, 2 March, 1969

I have an identical box of this ammo. I sent the info, including the inside-flap lot code stamp to Winchester in an attempt to find out how old it was and they sent back an email saying they "considered this proprietary information..." WTF??

By the way the stamp says "67DM03". What can you glean from that nugget?

26 September 2017, 16:39

ElCaballero

quote:
Originally posted by tenmikemike:
quote:
Originally posted by Grenadier:
Production line or operator 54, 12 March, 1969
Production line or operator 93, 2 March, 1969

I have an identical box of this ammo. I sent the info, including the inside-flap lot code stamp to Winchester in an attempt to find out how old it was and they sent back an email saying they "considered this proprietary information..." WTF??

By the way the stamp says "67DM03". What can you glean from that nugget?

November 30 1970. I found the key to the code. If you'd like it I can email it to you.

26 September 2017, 18:03

memtb

I was going to guess mid to late 60's... I wuz righter than I thought I wuz!

memtb

You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel

06 October 2017, 23:08

Atkinson

I have 20 boxes of that ammo in .250-3000. I thought I bought it in the mid 1950s, oh well guess not.

07 October 2017, 01:26

ElCaballero

quote:
Originally posted by Atkinson:
I have 20 boxes of that ammo in .250-3000. I thought I bought it in the mid 1950s, oh well guess not.

Pre 1962 will not have the "warning keep out of reach of children" printed on it.

07 October 2017, 10:00

tenmikemike

quote:
Originally posted by ElCaballero:
quote:
Originally posted by tenmikemike:
quote:
Originally posted by Grenadier:
Production line or operator 54, 12 March, 1969
Production line or operator 93, 2 March, 1969

I have an identical box of this ammo. I sent the info, including the inside-flap lot code stamp to Winchester in an attempt to find out how old it was and they sent back an email saying they "considered this proprietary information..." WTF??

By the way the stamp says "67DM03". What can you glean from that nugget?

November 30 1970. I found the key to the code. If you'd like it I can email it to you.

Thaks much! Please do.