62 G&A october 2019 | whAt‘s in A nAme.in large quantities to supply the still-in-
service M1 Garands and M1 Carbines
of the South Vietnamese army and other
countries. It’s no wonder that Hornady’s
first offerings in ’64 were military-surplus
cartridge cases loaded with Hornady bul-
lets. They initially included the .30 Car-
bine, .308 Win. and .30-’06 Springfield.
Joyce chose to name his new ammunition
line “Frontier.”
The Frontier line of cartridges slowly began to grow.
They also added other popular commercial ammunition of the
time. Hornady sourced cartridge cases for their commercial
rounds from other ammo industry companies. These cartridge
cases carried the Frontier headstamp. By 1972, the Frontier line
of ammo had
grown to include
the 9mm Luger,
.38 Special, .222
Rem., .22-250
Rem., .243 Win.,
.270 Win., 7mm
Remington Mag-
num, .30 Carbine,
.30-30 Win., .308
Win., and .30-’06
Springfield.
Frontier ammunition continued
through the 1970s and ’80s as more a d
more calibers were added to the Hornady
line. Cartridge cases purchased continued to
be sourced from outside suppliers and head-
stamped with the Frontier name. In the late 1980s, Hornady
assumed responsibility for its first industry-standardized Sporting
Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute (SAAMI) car-
tridges with the 10mm Auto and .220 Swift.
The long and short of the story is by being the com-
pany responsible for standardizing and introducing a new
cartridge to SAAMI, there also came a responsibility to the
industry to provide the standards and specifications for the
cartridge. This included chamber specifications, as well as
reference and firearm-proof ammunition.
In the early 1990s, Hornady began to produce small quanti-
ties of its own cartridge cases, and in-house production of their
cartridges made up a small fraction of what was being loaded
into ammo every year. At the time, all locally
produced cartridge cases bore the “HORNADY”
headstamp, and each cartridge case sourced
outside the company retained the “FRONTIER”
headstamp. This was done so that the source of
the cartridge case could quickly be identified.
But by the mid-to-late 2000s customers were
beginning to be confused by the sourcing of
Hornady ammo because it was being loaded with
two different headstamps. They wondered if there were differences
between the Frontier and Hornady headstamped ammo. Throughhornady Frontier
Cowboy Action
packaging circa
2002 to present.hornady Frontier
Cowboy Action
packaging circa
1984 to 2002.hornady Frontier
packaging circa
1972 to 1984.hornady Frontier
packaging circa
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