Cartridges

[browningautorifle]

I picked up a 20mm projectile this morning.

Pics?

[Aragorn243]

[browningautorifle]

Interesting, wonder if it had a base fuze?

[CINDERS]

Not sure on this one I thought it may have been a .375 BPE coiled but it may be possibly a .350 BPE (MkVII 303 for scale)

[CINDERS]

From the collection a .500 Nitro Express with 570 gr FMJ/Cupro-Nickle @2,150 ft/s giving 5,850 fpe Kynoch NE load.

MkVII 303 for scale

[CINDERS]

From the collection ~ .577/500 No 2 BPE paper patched.
You'll notice in the top shot of the projectile there seems to be a copper plug in there possibly to aid expansion of the projectile?
What is the consensus on that theory!

Developed as a black powder round some time before 1879 by necking down the .577 Black Powder Express to .507-inches (12.9 mm) for use in single or double rifles, as well as a variety of Martini-based lever rifles.

MkVII 303 for scale

[browningautorifle]

You'll notice in the top shot of the projectile there seems to be a copper plug in there possibly to aid expansion of the projectile?

That's what it does...

[RCS]

Winchester did produce one of their 50-110 cartridge loadings using a 22 rim fire blank cartridge in the nose of the lead bullet. It was thought that this might explode the bullet but in actual hunting did not really work.

Winchester's Model 1886 lever action rifle chambered the 50-110 plus a few Winchester Hi Wall single shot rifles.

My photo shows all the cartridges factory chambered in the model 1886 Winches carbine and rifle, (45-70 missing) the 50-110 is far right and has the 22 rim fire black cartridge in the bullet nose

[browningautorifle]

Winchester 22 rim fire blank in lead bullet nose

How about nose pics of the blanks...?

[RCS]

I will get a nose photos

cartridges in my photo left to right 33 WCF, 38-56, 38-70, 40-70, 40-82, 45-90 & 50-110