I cannot comment on the British army connection but that is a very typical British target rifle of the period. When the NRA changed from .303 inch to 7.62mm NATO for target shooting many hundreds of...
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I cannot comment on the British army connection but that is a very typical British target rifle of the period. When the NRA changed from .303 inch to 7.62mm NATO for target shooting many hundreds of...
Prior to 1943 all British and Commonwealth .303 inch Ball Mark VII had cupro-nickel envelopes. After that date most were either gilding metal or gilding metal clad steel to conserve nickel, a far...
I think the red stamping is not original to the box as you are correct, it contained ammo made at ROF Hirwaun, Wales.
It is am H51 crate which contains an H52 tin liner. Two H 51 crates fitted in...
Your round is a Ball Mark V made by Kynoch, Birmingham.
It is based on the hollow point rounds made at Dum Sum in India but is not a true Sum Dum round.
The true rounds were made at the...
It is a P.14. They have one piece stocks!
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TonyE
Jonny - AFAIK they were only made as mock-ups.
As for the change in length, the main reason was to give more support for the long bullet.
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TonyE
Not that I know of. An EM2 may have been re-barrelled as one was for the 6.25mm trials but I will check next time I am at the NFC in Leeds.
Prior to the 49mm case length 4.85mm round a lot of the...
So it is a Remington, not an Eddystone.
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TonyE
We need to know the manufacturer of the rifle to be able to give a definite answer on when yours was made.
However, it should not be a Winchester as their serial numbers do not go that high. If a...
1.22 inches according to the original Kynoch 1911 drawing I have.
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TonyE
Actually very few Pattern '14 rifles were issued or used in WWI and most were put into reserve in 1916-17.
They were mostly refurbished just before WW2 to Weedon standard and then issued.
I...
Mark III and IV chargers are also WWI.
Charger approval dates were:
Mark I List of Changes Paragraph 11753 16 Jan 1903
Mark II List of Changes Paragraph 13465 24 April 1906
Mark III List of...
Why is it people here in the UK insist on using the term "heads" when the correct term is bullet or projectile?
The head of a cartridge is that part which surrounds the primer, hence the word...
Thanks Titan.
it is nowhere near finished but I will persevere!
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Tony
A few points on the above answers.
The headstamp is Kynoch, it is not Kirkee. Kirkee never used "K" on .303 inch rounds, only on .577/.450 coiled case ammunition.
Kynoch made 311 million rounds...
In case you did not see my answer on your original post, your rifle was one of 36,672 accepted by British inspectors at the factory in week ending 3 February 1917.
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TonyE
It was originally conceived as an anti-tank gun round, but when this concept became obsolete it continued development as an aircraft machine gun.
It never went anywhere and was dead by about 1949....
Sorry, but that is wrong. The "D I" is Defence Industries, part of Canadian Industries Ltd. "I.G.Canada" is inspector General.
This is Ball Mark VIIz ammunition loaded with nitrocelluose...
Is this detailed enough?
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TonyE
Whilst I completely agree with the bulk of your post Bruce, I do take issue with your comments about the Mark VIIIz bullet.
In practice it is no heavier than a Mark VII bullet. It is specified at...
What are you seeing that I am missing that suggests that the box is a Hirwaun re-pack? The only thing different is that it does not have a manufacturer and Date of Work rubber stamp showing in the...
First, as Bruce says, it is the salts in the primer that are corrosive, not the propellant itself. Both cordite and nitrocellulose are erosive over time, but in different ways.
All Canadian WW2...
Britain both imported Japanese ammunition in late 1914/early 1915 and also manufactured both Type 30 and Type 38 ammunition, principally for the Russians.
Part 1 of my books on British secondary...
It is as you say, Mark 7 ball loaded at Royal Laboratory, Woolwich in 1945.
If the headstamp is "R^L 45 7" it is cordite loaded, but if it is "R^L 45 7Z" then it is nitrocellulose loaded....
...if you like books full of errors!
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TonyE