I got excited!

[Peter Laidler]

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

[jimmieZ]

I recently bought 420 round of Sellier & Bellot on GB for $205 - and it's reloadable!

[Simon P]

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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[Bruce_in_Oz]

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SO............was this ammo originally made for: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?

[Hal O'Peridol]

I recently bought 420 round of Sellier & Bellot on GB for $205 - and it's reloadable!

You might get two reloads out of it before it starts to give case head separations. Really poor quality brass.