Frontier Rifle Brass

[cabezaverde]

Does anyone have an idea who made Frontier (Hornady) rifle brass back in the day? 30-06 if it matters.

[higgins]

I can't answer your question, but I remember when the first Frontier .30/06 ammo was loaded in U.S. military cases.

[cabezaverde]

This is headstamped Frontier.

[Randy Bohannon]

I have a box of it and always cleaned up better than most any thing else in my early days of handloading and primitive methods of cleaning brass. I have no idea who made it, I have some Browning 30-06 brass that is nearly the same just nice brass. Lettering font on both are the same.

[Mk42gunner]

When Starline brass became available with its own *-* headstamp, a lot of people wondered who made the "new" brass. The story I remember going around was that they made a lot of the seldom used or seen brass before marketing their it as their own.

I have long thought Starline may have made the first Frontier brass, with absolutely nothing but a gut feeling to go on.

Robert

[MT Gianni]

I first saw Hornaday Frontier brass in the 80's long before star-line.

[brassrat]

I have 50 I came upon, with primers. They are in .303 and sitting, empty, in a MTM box. I googled yesterday with conflicting ideas of quality and makers. Winchester was mentioned and I believe they are Win. primers.

[MostlyLeverGuns]

I bought 1000 from Widener's(?), late 80's,early 90's(?). I think it was Winchester, I have both 243 and 308 with Frontier headstamp from that 'long ago'. Both weigh the same as Win brass from about that time. I still have some of it. It has held up well, I save it for heavier hunting loads due to its larger capacity. It gives me an extra 2 grains of powder over LC and other military brass without signs of pressure. Loads developed in the Frontier brass show excess pressure in LC brass.

[samari46]

Fwiw, always thought they were initially made by Winchester as the lettering on the case heads looked a lot like what Winchester used. Frank