I found a bullet shell and on the bottem of the shell it says 30-06 SPRG R-P,what does the SPRG and R-P mean?

Question

Also (if you know), did the Remington-peters make the bullets during WWII?

Answer 1

The cartridge is 30-06 Springfield caliber, the standard US cartridge in the World Wars. Springfield Armory was for a long time THE armory for the military. The cartridge was made by Remington-Peters, one of the major manufacturers.

Answer 2

30-06 SPRG is an aka for 30-06 Springfield; the name by which our 30-06 is well known. It was adopted by our military in 1906 which breaks down to 30 caliber adopted in 06; a slightly different loading from the 30-03 round (ancestry). R-P is remington-peters; peters was a subsidiary of remington for many years and made ammo. Sort of like Coke having a subsidiary making bottled water. I am not sure when but Remington absorbed peters and now all ammo is manufactured under the Remington name. Google it if you can't live without the exact date.

Answer 3

.30-06 SPRG is the caliber - .30-06 Springfield

The R-P is Remington-Peters, the manufacturer of the shell.

During WWI and WWII, the Remington headstamp was RA.

Peters had their own headstamp of PC - I'm pretty sure the R-P name came out post WWII.

Addtionally, I found a list of military arsenal headstamps for you to browse all of the headstamps.

http://www.harringtonmuseum.org.uk/USACartHeadstamps.htm

Answer 4

30-06 Sprg R-p

Answer 5

The caliber designation is: ".30-06 Springfield." The R-P is the ammo manufacturer, Remington-Peters.

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Answer 6

H is absolutely correct.

And to your second question, yes Remington produced ammunition during world war 2. According to my headstamp book and some ammo I have, their code was R A.

I have some old .45 ACP marked R A 42 which would be 1942 production from Remington.

Answer 7

Remington didn't stamp the ammo with the RP till 1946.