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I think his is just the brass/bronze filler plug for expansion.

3" .500 Nitro for Black Powder, Bullet Wt 440 gr, Vel 1,900 ft/s , M.E 3,528 ft/lbf. This is the Kynoch nitro load for Black Powder Nitro Express Rifles.
This is quite a nice example of the round plus again the copper plug to aid expansion one would think for light skinned game to stop a full through penetration of the projectile.

MKVII 303 for scale.

A few months back I got an original 1895 Winchester is 35 Winchester calibre, something I have lusted after for several years. Ammunition can be problematic but happened on 6 ten round boxes of Kynoch 250 grain round nose loads in those same colour boxes for sale. They weren't cheap or even boxer primed but be nice to get it roaring again. Excellent moose medicine if ranges aren't too long.

Missed out buying a Winchester 1895 in 405 cal at a local gun shop,Attachment 127518 it was also marked CALCUTTA INDIA too on the barrel. Good friend had a Win 1895 in 30-03 caliber, said it was a Texas Range rifle.

photo shows four civilian factory cartridges for the Winchester 1895

left: 35 WCF, 38-72 WCF, 40-82 WCF and 405 WCF

I need to make a correction on my photo of Model 1895 Winchester cartridges, third cartridge

is 40-72 (not 40-82)

I have seen a few 95's with foreign distributor names on them as well. One I missed in .405, had a matted rib on top of the barrel, shotgun butt. Was marked (something or other) et freres. Looked it up at the time and was Parisian sporting goods distributor similar to Abercrombie and Fitch in the US. Not much collector interest in it cuz it was oddly marked but woulda been a great hunter.

My .500 BPE - 3 1/4" has the copper plug for expansion but what I like on this one is the head stamping of Eley Bros so not quite sure on Eley's history of when they changed the headstamp to just Eley as they went public in 1874 so I'm unsure as to the DOM of this cartridge.
RCS do you have an idea on this one.

The .500 BPE was considered a good cartridge for medium-sized non dangerous game and can still be used for such.

The .500 BPE was never highly regarded for hunting in Africa, yet it was a popular cartridge in India, considered a good general purpose rifle cartridge popular for hunting tigers. Jim Corbett was a user of a .500 BPE rifle prior to switching to a .400 Jeffery Nitro Express double rifle, shooting cordite Nitro for Black loadings this rifle was used to dispatch the first man-eater he shot, the Champawat Tiger.

MKVII 303 for scale

In my photo, the last cartridge is the Eley Nitro 577 with 2 3/4 inch case, lead bullet has the copper plug in the nose.

Next to the 577 Eley on the left is the Eley 500 with 3 inch case. headstamp is ELEY LONDON 500, note the paper patched bullet.Attachment 127538

The Eley London headstamp could be very early ?

.450/400 2 3/8 inch Black Powder Express head stamped ELEY London this cartidge also has the copper plug for expansion in the nose of the projectile.

Again not sure on the age but they figure in Wiki from the 1880's.

The .450/400 2 3/8 inch Black Powder Express was loaded with a bullets from 210 to 270 grains driven by 79 to 84 grains of black powder.

MKVII 303 for scale

.400 PURDEY LIGHT EXPRESS 3 inch BPE.

The headstamp is Kynoch 400 P which stands for the Purdey again unknown year of manufacture.

Introduced by gunmaker James Purdey during the late 1880's. Cartridges were loaded for Purdey by Kynoch and Eley.

Usual MkVII 303 for scale.

I also found this place as a guide for the N.E's so others may use it if they wish, the .400 P cartridge was not listed in my COTW(14th Ed.) and information on the web very limited.
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