1906 headstamp

[Caliboose]

I am not a collector but I have a few pieces of brass with the 1906 headstamp.  Is there any interest in these?
 
Trades considered.
 
Caliboose
 
Please send P.M as I do not read this section regularly!

[CannonKrazy]

What caliber and what condition are they in? Looking at some of my old brass I came across several 30-06 cases with 1906 stamping.

[Caliboose]

Yes these are 30-06 rounds Rem-Umc 1906.  They have been reloaded but are showing their age.  I am not sure whether to clean them, trade them as they are, shoot them, or toss them out.  I don't have a full box of 20 - maybe 16 or so.

[CannonKrazy]

I'm sure someone would want the cases for collecting. You might try offering them on a different sight and get a great deal.

[Bob Riebe]

I am putting this here not to value 30-06  cartridges but to just give an idea of how huge is the volume of information that one comes across when looking for history of the -06.

http://cartridgecollectors.org/?page=introduction-to-30-06-cartridges

An Introduction to Collecting .30-06 Cartridges

by Chris Punnett (Author of .30-06. A hard-bound 384-page volume covering the development and production of the .30-06 in 48 countries from its inception to the early 1990s

Copies available from booksellers, or from the authorcpunnett@sympatico.ca.)

The .30-06 cartridge can be looked at as the result of several different developments that took place during the closing decades of the nineteenth century. These developments were: the change from blackpowder to smokeless powder; the general acceptance throughout the world of the benefits of smaller caliber weapons; and the desire to move away from a rimmed cartridge. The move to smokeless powder and smaller diameter bullets had been accomplished to some degree with the adoption of the rimmed .30 Krag in 1892 but this proved to have a limited powder capacity. By 1901, work had started on a rimless cartridge which was based on an earlier rimmed experimental .30 caliber round. The result of this work was the .30 Ball Model of 1901 - the ".30-01" or "Thick-rim".
As its name implies, the rim on this cartridge was thick in comparison to more modern rimless cartridges including the .30-03 and .30-06 which followed. The bottle-necked case held a 220-grain round-nosed cupronickel-jacketed bullet.

>Running parallel to this was the development of the Springfield Magazine Rifle. By 1903, the original .30-01 cartridge had lost its thick rim and had been adopted as the .30 Model of 1903 - the ".30-03", and in the same year the Springfield was also adopted as the .30 Rifle, Model of 1903.

The .30-03 retained the 220-grain round-nosed bullet of its predecessor at a time when most world powers had realized the advantages of a pointed or "spitzer" bullet. In early 1906, a pointed bullet was mounted on a .30-03 case that had the neck reduced by a tenth of an inch to accommodate the reduced bearing surface on this new bullet. Thus, on October 15, 1906, with little fanfare, was born the .30 Cal. Model of 1906 - the ".30-06".



Complete empty boxes are often worth a fair amount of money for the early ones.
The whole article is ten time longers.