How old is this headstamp?

I found this piece of .50 BMG brass while I sat down to pick out cactus spines hunting antelope this year. It’s scratched from being in a belt. According to a local landowner, this area was used for fighter training during WW2, and it likely came out of a P-51.

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I have a .25-35 case I found on top of the mountain between Kootenai and Bass Creek in the Root. I'll try to find it and post a pic. mtmuley
 
Found a 30-40 Krag in some rocks in Colorado one time. Thought looked like a good place to see an elk. Got to looking around and seen it. It was really tarnished and I wonder how long it was there and if who ever fired it if they took an elk or mule deer. Hopefully it’s still up there that’s been 23 years ago
 
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Found it on the mountain where I elk hunt. mtmuley
Did you clean it up? It doesn't look too weathered.

No idea how old it is, but I love finding old bullet casings like that. I play a game where I try to guess the cartridge before I look at the head stamp. Also fun to wonder what they may have been shooting at, and did they kill anything.
 
Great finds , it makes you wonder if the hunter who fired the shot was successful?
 
Did you clean it up? It doesn't look too weathered.

No idea how old it is, but I love finding old bullet casings like that. I play a game where I try to guess the cartridge before I look at the head stamp. Also fun to wonder what they may have been shooting at, and did they kill anything.
I had it in my stainless tumbler for a couple hours. mtmuley
 
My dad had a 1895 Winchester rifle that was stamped 30 US Govt. I never saw that head stamp though. Google says super x came out in 1922.
 
I am gonna say that its older than my Winchester Super Grade Model 70 stamped 30-GOVT-06? I think the rifle was made in 1936 or 37
 
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