Midway Brass

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cove posted this 12 June 2025

Was going through my 38 spl brass and came across a batch with a Midway headstamp.  I seem to remember reading somewhere that their brass was made by Starline.  Is that correct???

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JBinMN posted this 12 June 2025

I think I might have some of those in either the same or other calibers in my "Mixed brass" containers. I would have to go look...

Anyway,

This "may" help out, but I went and checked out this link: https://cartridgecollectors.org/headstamp-codes/

Their site indicates that those with head stamp marked "MIDWAY" come from, Midway Arms Inc., Columbia, MO.. ( Likely same as the store we use today as MidwayUSA. You could likely call them & ask about it... (800) 243-3220 )

There is also a similar topic from 2018 over at The Art & Science of Bullet Casting Forum.

Link is:  https://www.artfulbullet.com/index.php?threads/when-did-midway-make-brass.4262/



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tomme boy posted this 13 June 2025

 I have close to 1K 357mag midway stamped brass. It came from my fil and he got it back in the 70s sometime. don't know who made it

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Boschloper posted this 13 June 2025

If you read thru “Larry’s Short Stories” on the Midway website, in one of them he talks about their bulk brass sales. He says that the Midway headstamp brass was made by Starline.

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cove posted this 19 June 2025

Wayne: Thanks for your response.  I always thought it was made by Starline, now I'm sure thanks to you.  Bill

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trapdoor4570 posted this 19 June 2025

I have probably 500 Midway nickeled brass stamped match in .45 ACP, bought them in the early '90s.  I feel they are of better quality than some of the name brand range pickup.  Back in the mid '60s I picked up a few hundred National match cases.  It was a noisy day at the range, one of the doctors was there with a 1928 Thompson.  Oh how I would love to have that Thompson, I would get a violin case to keep it in.

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Lucky1 posted this 19 June 2025

Slight detour but....when I was a kid (Nixon was president as a reference point) my great-aunt was giving my aunt her violin back so she could take it home to back east. My aunt said the violin was crap and not worth the effort. However, my uncle got really excited and took the case and promptly broke down his Lefever double 16 and put it in the case. (Yes, it was pheasant season in SD) The best part was he went home on the airlines and that was the way he did carry on. That was truly the good old days.

Scott Ingle

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Millelacs posted this 22 June 2025

my uncle got really excited and took the case and promptly broke down his Lefever double 16 and put it in the case. (Yes, it was pheasant season in SD) The best part was he went home on the airlines and that was the way he did carry on. That was truly the good old days.
Back in the early '80's I worked in a roofing factory and paper mill.  We had 13 nuclear devices for measuring sheet density and tank levels.  We contracted with an outside company to perform wipe tests to see if our nuclear sources were leaking.  The tech carried small nuclear samples in his briefcase on the plane (I wonder how much attention he would attract now).  It's amazing how much glow in the dark stuff is floating around and where.

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