Looking for help identifying some .303 Mk VIIz ammo.

This site supports the 'made in Canada' position. Looks like a small problem with the first website that I posted...

Headstamp Codes - International Ammunition Association

The h/s pictured in post #7 is 1,000,000% Canadian. A h/s with a large 'D' to the left of a small 'I' topped by a Broad-Arrow is for the Indian Dum-Dum Arsenal.

That is unclear in the site info...

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Originally Posted by browningautorifle

So Tom, are you trying to tell me the cartridge base above is an Indian cartridge and not Canadian Defence Industries? Are you quite sure? We've had cases of it here and actually found it in the field in Canadian training areas. The boxes above show the same headstamp and are marked Canada... We didn't import from India for our use.

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The D with the line (D\) or (D|) is Indian yes, the (DI) is Canadian & the Z Refers to graphite glazed nitro-cellulose propellant & the year of course 1944 !.............

Show us the "DI" you speak of Tom, because that headstamp above in post 7 is Canadian. The rest of these (10, 11, 12) are saying the same thing...further, show us the Indian headstamps.

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Originally Posted by browningautorifle

Show us the "DI" you speak of Tom, because that headstamp above in post 7 is Canadian. The rest of these (10, 11, 12) are saying the same thing...further, show us the Indian headstamps.

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I am NOT going to argue about it, it is what it is, DI Z 1943 - Indian Government Ammunition Factory, Dum Dum, Calcutta, INDIA, .303 Headstamp Cartridge Identification, Headstamps of the .303 British Calibre Service Ammunition Round.................

Strange, you're the only one...and you can't prove it. The pic above is out of place. So that's settled then, and you won't argue any more.

To my knowledge, India has NEVER made .303 ammo with a boxer primer for service use.

The "standard" is the good old .250" diameter, copper-cupped MERCURIC Berdan primer. Long-lasting and "generally" reliable from the poles to the tropics.

Their 7.62 x 51 "NATO" ball uses the more familiar .217" diameter BRASS cupped BERDAN primer. This MAY have changed in the last decade or so.

There is a small production of "sporting ammo in India; not sure what sort of primer they use.

Additionally has anyone ever seen any of the Indian 5.56 x 45 ammo to check out the primer pockets.