What do I have here? Danish wood-tipped 303...

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Wooden projectile training rounds were made for most all weapons in the after war years! I have seen 30-06 (for US donated P17's and Garands), 8x58RD (for the remaning Danish Krags), 303 Brit (for British donated Lee'), 6.5x55 (for donated Swede 96'ers). I think it was a Danish thing because of the limited amount of smokeless powder and cases present after the second game. If you think of it from a poor point of wiew: If a star crimp is put on a case it can be used but once!!! With a wooden plug it can be reused in traning until suficient production of blanks can keep up with demand.

In fact we were so poor in the post war years that: If i had'nt been born a boy child i would'nt have had anything to play with for the first years of my life

In the post war years there was a wast red front scare and severe traning was a consequence, but little/limited/mixed material was present. So the Danish arsenal had to make do

PS. We also have 8x57JS wooden tips for the left over german Mausers!

Will post pics later.