Headstamp Guide - Letters - N
N
A Brief History
NR within a headstamp stands for Non-Reloadable cartridge case. It is typically seen on cartridge cases made of aluminum. In this instance, the FC stands for Federal Cartridge.
A Brief History
North American Trade focuses on producing cartridge cases for reloaders and custom loaders. They use the NAT headstamp, as well as offer custom headstamps in 9mm Luger. 45 Auto and 223 Remington/5.56x45mm are listed as new products being offered soon. Their website also features solid copper bullets, but they do not sell complete cartridges.
Contact Information:
http://www.natrade.net/
388 Cane Creek Road, Suite 22
Fletcher, NC 28732
Phone: (828) 712-3004
Email: nmyers@natrade.net
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Nautilus Ammunition was founded in 2022, producing ammunition and shipping nationwide. Based on their website and social media accounts, they appear to have moved away from the "NAUT" headstamp, and were sourcing cartridge cases from other manufacturers such as CBC and Armscor USA. They also appear to have ceased production and assembly as of December 2023. Their website currently features cartridges from numerous other name brands in a variety of handgun and long gun calibers, as well as some accessories.
Contact information:
https://nautilusammunition.com/
- (727) 648-4030
- customerservice@nautilusammunition.com
- Pinellas County, FL
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Made in the European Union (Hungary), New Republic has been producing ammunition since 1952 for military, law enforcement, hunting, sport, and more. They offer several handgun and a couple long gun calibers of ammuntion, and their website states that they also produce blank, stunning, and alarm cartridges as well. Their ammunition can be purchased through Target Sports USA's website.
Contact information:
https://www.newrepublicammunition.com/
Target Sports USA, 30 Fieldstone Court Cheshire, CT 0641
860-426-9886
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Igman D.D.
Donje Polje 42
88400 Konjic
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Tel: +387 36 727 413 726 276
Fax: +387 36 727 501 726 873
Igman International USA L.L.C.
2499 Main Street
Stradford, CT 06615
Tel: 203-375-8544
Fax: 203-375-8547
Igman International Ltd.
7 Abington Road
Kensington
London W8 6AH
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 207 376 0796
Fax: +44 207 376 0798
From Website:
'IGMAN' d.d. company was established on 6th March 1950.
It was one of the biggest producers of small arms ammunition from cal. 5,56 mm till cal. 12,7 mm in Europe.
'IGMAN' produces all types of ammunition - eastern and western - and with various types of bullets (ball, tracer, armour-piercing, armour-piercing incendiary, armour-piercing incendiary-tracer and other combinations of all types).
'IGMAN' has exported its products in more than 60 countries on all continents.
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Prvi Partizan
Milosa Obrenovica 2
31000 Uzice
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
Phone: +381 31 511 382
Fax: +318 31 515 350
e-mail: ppnp@neobee.net
From Website:
History:
Prvi Partizan company was founded in 1928. In those days it was operating under the name FOMU - Arms and Ammunition Factory Uzice. A production program was based on hunting arms and ammunition production in calibers 12, 16 and 20.
The factory had developed pistol and revolver ammunition production by the year 1938. in calibers: 6.35mm, 7.65mm and 9mm Browning; 5.8mm Velodog; 8mm Gasser; 8mm and 9mm Steyr; 7.62mm Nagant; 9mm, 11.2mm and 12 mm Central; and since 1940. rifle ammunition in caliber 7.9 has been produced.
A Brief History
Prvi Partizan
Milosa Obrenovica 2
31000 Uzice
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
Phone: +381 31 511 382
Fax: +318 31 515 350
e-mail: ppnp@neobee.net
From Website:
History:
Prvi Partizan company was founded in 1928. In those days it was operating under the name FOMU - Arms and Ammunition Factory Uzice. A production program was based on hunting arms and ammunition production in calibers 12, 16 and 20.
The factory had developed pistol and revolver ammunition production by the year 1938. in calibers: 6.35mm, 7.65mm and 9mm Browning; 5.8mm Velodog; 8mm Gasser; 8mm and 9mm Steyr; 7.62mm Nagant; 9mm, 11.2mm and 12 mm Central; and since 1940. rifle ammunition in caliber 7.9 has been produced.
A Brief History
Prvi Partizan
Milosa Obrenovica 2
31000 Uzice
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
Phone: +381 31 511 382
Fax: +318 31 515 350
e-mail: ppnp@neobee.net
From Website:
History:
Prvi Partizan company was founded in 1928. In those days it was operating under the name FOMU - Arms and Ammunition Factory Uzice. A production program was based on hunting arms and ammunition production in calibers 12, 16 and 20.
The factory had developed pistol and revolver ammunition production by the year 1938. in calibers: 6.35mm, 7.65mm and 9mm Browning; 5.8mm Velodog; 8mm Gasser; 8mm and 9mm Steyr; 7.62mm Nagant; 9mm, 11.2mm and 12 mm Central; and since 1940. rifle ammunition in caliber 7.9 has been produced.
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From DKG Trading, Inc's website:
"NobelSport, being the first European manufacturer of hunting and shooting powder, is proud of its heritage.
NobelSport produces and assembles all shotshell components,
therefore bringing together, for the benefit of its clients, all its industrial experience:
Patented NobelSport special wad - the only one with an internal damper.
Production of raw materials, components and a unique loading system guarantee the reliability of NobelSport cartridges, which have always been produced at S.Giuliano Terme and marketed to hunters and shooters all over the world. 3,100,000,000 shotshells have been manufactured to date!"
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Norma Precision AB
670 40 Amotfors, Sweden
Tel: +46(0)571-315 00
Fax: +46(0)571-315 40
Technical support
Åke Nilsson
Tel: +46(0)571-315 16
Fax: +46(0)571-315 40
E-mail: ake.nilsson@norma.cc
From Website:
Norma – a century of serving people who enjoy hunting and shooting
Norma was founded in 1902 by the Enger brothers from Oslo, Norway, who had founded Norma Projektilfabrik A/S a few years earlier. The name “Norma” has nothing to do with the word “Norge”, which is the Norwegian word for Norway, although you might think so. No, quite simply one of the brothers was extremely keen on the opera by Bellini entitled Norma.
The Swedish shooting movement needed a supplier in Sweden, and a request was made for Norma Projektilfabrik A/S to set up in Sweden: at this time, Sweden and Norway were both part of a union. The brothers took a train to Sweden and set up their business in Åmotfors, some 20 kilometres from the border with Norway.
From the very beginning, and until halfway through the 20th century, the company’s business was dominated by the production of military ammunition and ammunition for rifles, but the range of hunting equipment gradually became more and more interesting. Norma started to make contacts on the international market at this time. This, together with the company’s interest in the military, resulted in modern ways of thinking and led to new products with outstanding precision.
Nils Kvale has been an invaluable part of Norma’s enormous success during the latter half of the 20th century. At the same time, he was a fantastic visionary and an extremely talented developer of products. It was possible to introduce a range of new calibres to the market in the 1960s. Not least, Nils Kvale’s co-operation with colleagues in the USA helped to put Norma on the world map as a manufacturer of top-quality rifle ammunition.
Norma’s cartridges Alaska, Vulkan and, later on, Oryx, are now familiar to hunters all over the world.
Nowadays, Norma manufactures around 23 million cartridges in 70 calibres each year. This means that Norma offers one of the biggest ranges of ammunition in the world, and that stockists all over the world are offered a complete, high-class range of products from one and the same supplier – Norma.
Norma 1902–2002
1895 Norma Projektilfabrik A/S is founded in Oslo, Norway.
1902 A unit is opened in Åmotfors, with one member of staff and two machines.
1911 A factory is built.
1940 Rapid expansion. 10 new factory buildings are added.
1942 The company now employs 800 staff.
1950 Norma starts exporting ammunition for hunting.
1965 The merger of Norma and its competitor Svenska Metallverken.
1967 The new factory is opened. It employs 530 members of staff and manufactures 64 million cartridges.
1975 Hasselfors Bruk AB has a new owner. Now 65 million cartridges are manufactured.
1979 FFV becomes the new owner. Rationalisation of the corporate structure. Military production moves to Vanäsverken.
1990 Dynamit Nobel AB becomes the new owner.
2002 Ruag Ammotech AG becomes new owner. Norma manufactures 23 million cartridges in 70 calibres. This allows us to offer one of the biggest ranges of rifle ammunition in the world.
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NP on primer = made by Norma Projektilfabrik
Norma Precision AB
Jagargatan
Amotfors, Sweden
67040
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From Nosler, a provider of brass, bullets, and ammunition.
https://www.nosler.com/9mm-luger-parabellum
A Brief History
NOVX Ammunition is sold with the headstamp NOVX, and are two-piece cartridge cases that were made by Shell Shock Technology. The two-piece cartridge cases feature a stainless steel cylinder combined with an aluminum base (for pistol calibers) or a stainless steel base (for rifle calibers). NOVX utilizes a polymer/copper projectile on some product lines, and a monolithic copper projectile on others. They sell ammunition in both pistol and rifle calibers.
Contact information:
info@novxammo.com
https://www.novxammo.com/
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Unis RO Pobjeda
Ul. Mira Sekarica bb
Gorazde, Yugoslavia
73000
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From the "Uncle Ted's Ammo" line, in conjunction with Barnes Bullets.
Visit Ted Nugent Ammo for additional information.
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National Police Ammunition out of Florida is "one of the few manufacturers of sintered frangible bullets, using our own proprietary mixture of copper/tin" (from website). Their current products include several rifle calibers and 9mm caliber ammunition, as well as a simulated duty round.
The "RHT" in this headstamp stands for Reduced Hazard Training, which features a lead-free, frangible projectile and primer with no heavy metals or silica.
Contact information:
The "official store of National Police Ammunition" is listed as https://www.alchemistammunition.com/
