Irish (?) contract No4 rifles

[therno]

Frederick, do you know what happened to the hundreds of millions of rounds of .303 ammo that would have been needed to feed the rifles?
Are we yet to see it emerge onto the open market, or was it the WW2-dated stuff which we have been shooting for decades - with increasingly click-bang results?

There is always this plain jane stuff that has been a bit of a mystery [ATTACH]61816[/

Can anyone date this box of .303?

And there is all the unmarked POF .303 that is showing up a lot lately on the market.

Military Surplus Ammo 303 British 174 Grain Full Metal Jacket Berdan


Just a thought not expert.