I have just come upon some boxes of ammo for the 7.62X54 Russian in tan unmarked boxes with "W" and 16 as headstamps. From the source, I believe this to be some of the original US made ammo made for the original Czar contract by Remington and Westinghouse. Anyone have any information as to this or have you seen other examples? Also any idea of a value for it?

Best source of infos and datas for Mosin Nagant

http://www.gunboards.com/forums/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=1

HTH

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I looked on there yesterday but found no usefull information on the subject. If you could post my inquiry on there, I'd appreciate it.

Done.

http://www.gunboards.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=240987

You should try to get back your datas, Gunboard is a gold mine for surplus weapons and ammo informations.

Thanks for the help. I used to go there all the time but now I don't usually mess with military rifles much.

You're welcome. I don't know anything about the value but you do have some genuine W ammo. with a U headstamp + year, there is some Remington UMC ammo.

The ammo has just a "W" at 12 O'colck and "16" at 6 O'clock. The boxes are plain tan, two piece, with string holding the lid on. In the far off past, someone wrote "Russian" in pencil on the side of the boxes.