CartWinPro 2
The Identification of many Aspects of Ammunition

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Quite a few questions arise during the identification of a cartridge:

• What is the head stamp telling us?
• Who made it?
• When was it made?
• Where is it coming from?
• What type of ammuniton is it? ....... and more

To answer these and all the other questions usually takes time and requires detailed literature. There are a multitude of headstamps that require detailed literature and also we need a database of the manufacturers of ammunition and components.

CartWinPro unites these tasks into a single software. The keys to sucess are the

• Headstamp database
• Manufacturer database
  

and the easy access to the relevant data with easy to use search entries.

Current number of records see on the front page.

The following databases with information fields are available:
(The information of a sample record is displayed as "i.e")

Headstamp database

with graphical correctly displayed headstamps,
their origin, the manufacturer, the meaning
of the individual codes and a picture of the headstamp

Available fields :

• Layout
• Country of origin (i.e. Germany - 1949)
• Headstamp type (i.e. German military code 1940 - 1945)
• Era (i.e. 1943)
• Style/ Appearance (i.e. Normal (Negative))
• Note (info text)
• Meaning of code 1 (i.e. Manufacturer of cartridge - code)
• Meaning of code 2 (i.e. Year of manufacturing - short cut - (19..) last digits)
• Meaning of code 3 (i.e. Code for case material: brass)
• Meaning of code 4 (i.e. Lot number)
• Meaning of code 5
• Meaning of code 6
• Meaning of code 7
• Meaning of code 8
• Literatur sources (book reference)
  
  
• a drawing of the headstamp
• plus a picture of the headstamp if available (see picture on the left side)

Five different font sets are enclosed with the program so other characters and symbols can be displayed and searched.

Once installed these fonts can also be used in applications as WinWord and others!

(Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Cyrillic and symbols)

i.e. the symbol font

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Manufacturer database

with the address, homepage, e-mail, phone and information
about the company, the type of manufacturer
and a picture of the companies logo

Available fields:

• Country of origin (i.e. Germany, F.R.G. (1949 - ...))
• Factory type (i.e. ammunition factory)
• Manufacturer Code (i.e. MEN)
• Factory name (i.e. Metallwerk Elisenhütte GmbH (MEN))
• Holding (i.e.Ferrostaal AG / MAN-Konzern (Fritz Werner Industrie-Ausrüstungen GmbH))
• Address 1 (i.e. Elisenhütte 10)
• Address 2 (further information)
• Address 3 (further information)
• P.O.Box (i.e. Postfach 1263)
• City (i.e. Nassau/ Lahn)
• Zip code (i.e. D-56377)
• State/ Province (i.e.Hessen)
• Phone (i.e. +49 2604 78-0)
• Fax (i.e. +49 2604 78115)
• Telex (number)
• Telegram address (usually on older entries)
• Homepage (i.e. www.elisenhuette.de)
• E-mail (i.e. men-info@elisenhuette.de)
• Era (i.e. 1957 - ...)
• Brand names (i.e. MEN, PTP, PEP, Quick Defence)
• Precessor (if applicable)
• Successor (if applicable)
• Notes (info text)
  
• Literatur sources (book reference)
  
• plus the logo if available (see picture on the left side)
  

Information in the fields are entered on availability.

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In a printed format these databases would currently fill a book with around 7.000 pages!

All databases can be searched on every field and information displayed. The search fields can easily be combined by the user to his specific needs. Just double click on the available field and it will be part of the search.

• the search for a code with i.e. dn will bring up all headstamps like dnh or dnf starting with dn.....
• different codes (and all other fields!) can be combines to limit the search results
• manufacturer records can be searched for brand names
• Text fields can be searched for contained text strings (i.e. for "Bellot" in Sellier & Bellot).
• i.e. search for a country will bring up all manufacturer or headstamps of this country
  

... for example the search menu for a headstamp with "dnh" and a six point full star. The order/ number of the codes does not matter for the result.
(Amongst the results will be the headstamp displayed in the headstamp dabase section.)

(example for a color code search)

Once the record has been found it needs one click to see if other records are related (i.e. see all the cartridges of the searched manufacturer or all cartridges of a selected caliber, headstamp or color code).

The answer to your question appears on the screen within a split of a second!

Source information

To give credit to sources a literature database is also included.

Books or publications where information can be found are listed by title, information type and page.

As we have time related information (i.e. availability) every record has a log book to see when it was last edited.

Languages

The software is multilingual and can currently be switched to
English(US) ,English (GB), French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and German.
Czech and Italian are in preparation.

All five databases can be extended with own input. If desired the own cartridge collection can be entered and searched with CartWinPro as well. The input windows are very comfortable to use. The definition of a caliber, the colors of the complete cartridges or the headstamp is very easy to do.

Update policy

and

customer support

All databases are regularly updated. Database updates are usually available every 4 weeks via www.cartwinpro.com. On request the updates are available on other storage media i.e. CD every 6 month. CartWinPro comes with a 2 year free update service on the databases and the software.

In addition we offer our CartWinPro users a closed forum/ bulletin board where tips and tricks for the advanced use of CartWinPro are given and where new or interesting developments in the world of ammuniton are noted.

Our forensic CartWinPro users have a closed part of the forum where they can contact other forensic CartWinPro users from around the world on ammunition topic and ask question which will stay inside the trade.

....... and certainly we do our best to answer our customers question if they send them to us direct.

PDF-demo files

Here you can download the pdf-version (6.2 Mb) of our guided tour through the complete CartWinPro 3. Please be aware that not all databases are incorporated in CartWinPro 2.
To get to the next page in the presentation please use the up/ down arrows.
For technical reasons we had to split up this presentation in different topics. So please start the information about the different databases individually. In CartWinPro they are all combined.
Please be aware that due to software improvements minor changes to the actual CartWinPro version can be encountered.

For more information and a detailed animated description of CartWinPro please see our presentation on the free info CD-ROM. We will be glad to send it to your department if you drop us a line.

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Tel +49 (0)8191 66704
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