Got an e-mail from Graf & Sons. They have surplus .303 in stock! $16.19/20
Then I saw it's Pakistani :eek: :thdown:
Unless things have changed.
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Got an e-mail from Graf & Sons. They have surplus .303 in stock! $16.19/20
Then I saw it's Pakistani :eek: :thdown:
Unless things have changed.
Bit pricey for 20 Mk7s and the cordite...
Give it a miss I used POF Mk VII '67 vintage for a while and as stated before could have done better with a handful of wheat
In Australia we call that ammo poof !!!!! ammo because that's all it does,, if you are lucky or it will also go click---------------------bang!!!!!!! and you will be doing this :bash: if you buy it
I understand that some years ago people were buying this stuff for the projectiles and propellant. Mind you, it'd have to be very cheap if all you really wanted to do was break it down I suppose!
I still have bunch I bought from Aim Surplus that I call "May Pop" ammo. It's great for checking novice shooters for flinch.
Al
Yes and akin to shooting a muzzle loader I may add click--bang---smoke---confetti wads out the end of the barrel and an exclamation of "Where did that go!" :dunno:
We had a huge batch of 9mm ammo in the late 60's that came from a 3-way deal with India. Although that was pretty much the opposite and while the primers seemed to be OK, the propellant was either absent or made of curry powder. For that, so said......, they got the remaining hundreds of Centurions from Germany. But as I was reminded many times. While they are non aligned, they are our/the Wests only TRUE friends in that part of the world
A bit like the .38 S&W by Gevelot that I tried in my No2 Mk1 Enfield Revolver recently, each box of 50 rounds had the correct amount of powder, it just wasn't equally distributed between each cartridge.
And ..... I can get PRVI (reload-able!) at the same or lower price.
I had some of that Gevelot stuff Simon and was all over the place with it. Mind you, with me and pistol shooting - and shooting in general now that I think about it - the crap or good ammo never really make any difference in my scores. Amazingly I struck lucky later as I swopped 'many' hundreds of rounds of it for, er........, even 'many, many more' .38 2z that was found stored as 9mm ball. Alas they took our .38's off us a year or so later
I recently bought 420 round of Sellier & Bellot on GB for $205 - and it's reloadable!
I also had the same issue with Geco ammunition, in this instance the bullet never actually left the barrel of my ,38 S&W Webley MkIV.
You can just see the bullet poking out of the end of the barrel
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Way back in the early 1970s, when I were y'ung pup in RAAF Cadet unit...................
A bunch of us were selected to be in an inter-state / inter-service shooting team.
The first year we had a generous supply of WW 1-vintage Kynoch-headstamped Mk7 for practice with our trusty SMLEs. REALLY good ammo. Placed "creditably"; better luck next time.
The next year we got lovely, fresh WW2 MF stuff. The RAAF gun-plumbers picked a very nice batch of rifles from which we selected the best ones. We "placed creditably".
The third year, we got the "good" rifles, and once again, received different ammo; no, not lovely, "fresh" MF that the instructors raved about, but this "other" stuff with a "funny" headstamp.
Turned out to be Pakistani in origin.
Not good at all; woeful, in fact. At the last minute, our instructors "found" enough "Good stuff" to get our confidence back and we actually won the "inter-squadron" shoot. Still got rolled by the Army Cadets, though.
When, after a practice shoot at the old Warwick Road range near Amberley, one of the more enterprising lads dug some projectiles out of the stop-butt, we noticed that the ones we had apparently just fired, did NOT have a core composed primarily of lead, but what looked suspiciously like plaster of Paris.
SO............was this ammo originally made for:
1. Gallery shooting,
2. Riot control,
3. "Frangible" ammo for against armoured targets on a special range?
4. Export to unsuspecting customers.
5. All of the above?
Any of you ammo gurus got any information?
You might get two reloads out of it before it starts to give case head separations. Really poor quality brass.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmieZ