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I believe there is a photo in the archive of this website of an Enfield which had been struck in the muzzle by a German bullet in WW1. The jacket remained protruding from the Enfield muzzle but the core traveled all the way down the bore and detonated the cartridge in the Enfield chamber, damaging the receiver and/or bolt.
Possibly an armor piercing round with a small diameter steel core?
Regards
Jim
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I have original German bullets here which my great-uncle (Gordon Highlanders) sent back before he went MIA.
The older .318" 227-grain bullet is a round-nosed type with a mild-steel jacket.
The later S type is 154 grains, pointed with a flat base and bronze-jacketed.
NOT hard to tell apart.
I am just perfectly happy that I wasn't holding any of these rifles when they were struck.
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