It's not a shotgun shell headstamp

I see plenty of posts on other sites, and lots of youtube videos, with people saying they've dug up a shotgun shell headstamp. What has actually been dug up could properly be called a shotshell base, shotshell brass, a shotgun shell base, or shotgun shell brass.

It's not a headstamp. The headstamp is just the writing stamped into the brass.

Too late.
Most people call all hot tubs Jacuzzis, all gelatin based deserts Jello, all separable fasteners locked together with a slider a Zipper and so on.
The die is cast, the dice have been rolled, it's over...time to move on.

diggwr27 Wrote:
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> Too late.
> Most people call all hot tubs Jacuzzis, all
> gelatin based deserts Jello, all separable
> fasteners locked together with a slider a Zipper
> and so on.
> The die is cast, the dice have been rolled, it's
> over...time to move on.

You've given examples of trademarks becoming generic from pervasive use. Headstamp is not a trademark.

In the UK we just call them 'Shotties' and possibly another few names that cannot be posted on the forum

Bayard Wrote:

> You've given examples of trademarks becoming
> generic from pervasive use. Headstamp is not a
> trademark.


Wow, seriously?

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Civil War relic hunters jokingly refer to them as 12th or 20th Georgia buttons. Those regiments camped everywhere in the country

Now days I just call them for what they are...junk.

Sometimes though the old heart skips a beat when I cut a deep plug and see a nice green patina shining through a dirt clod. Only to be robbed with a shotgun shell hull.

Yea Daniel, the 20th and the 12th really got around and SON! Did they ever have a butt load of troops lol

High brass or low brass is what we call them around here. But yea, there a pain in the brass.

I call them "Heck, it's not a coin!" he he he...sigh!

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