headstamp Id.

[shenck]

This may not be the right place for this, but fellow reloaders may have more insight into headstamps. I've not seen this before.

 

[gifbohane]

GECO--German

 

[twistytorn]

Geco.

http://cartridgecollectors.org/headstampcodes

 

[ericuda]

I reload it. Not good at pasting images, just Google geco 9mm.

 

[GravelRider]

Yep. Not much of a mystery. The ID is right on the headstamp. lol

I've shot some many years ago, but honestly can't remember how it performed, and I don't know that I've ever reloaded any of it before.

 

[9mmepiphany]

Geco is excellent brass for reloading.

They made their reputation with their polymer tipped JHP 9mm round in the H&K MP-5 used by the GSG-9 unit

 

[lordpaxman]

It reloads just fine. And it’s one of the cases where it looks like it’s a crimped primer, but most likely not. These shortages tend to produce a lot of brass for us range chickens that we haven’t seen before. Good luck.

 

[CQB45ACP]

Here’s a link to AFTE’s photo dbase. As said above, Geco is German so it must be good

I load a lot of it in 45ACP don’t see as much 9mm.

https://afte.org/resources/headstamp-guide

 

[FROGO207]

I have a couple hundred of them in my mixed range brass pile and they work as well as all the others. Cant remember if they had crimped primers though. Never had one fail as of this date.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

There's two Geco's (three if you count the one that sells insurance): Geco could be Dynamit Nobel A/G, Troisdorf, Germany; or it could be Gustav Genschow & Company, Durlach, Germany. From what I've seen, they're the same quality. Source for this is the IAA's headstamp codes page, linked above.

 

[Burstfire]

Geco = RUAG.

Ruag make excellent match quality ammo and primers. box of 2500 primers will fit in a box smaller than a box of 100ct .224 bullets. Cough* Federal. Cough* Overkill

 

[CQB45ACP]

There's two Geco's (three if you count the one that sells insurance): Geco could be Dynamit Nobel A/G, Troisdorf, Germany; or it could be Gustav Genschow & Company, Durlach, Germany. From what I've seen, they're the same quality. Source for this is the IAA's headstamp codes page, linked above.

I wonder if that’s why there are two different “spellings” on there headstamps? One being all caps (GECO) and the other just initial caps (Geco).

IAA’s spellings could be incorrect.