POUDRE BUSKRUIT

[Woodsy]

That ammo was a batch of .303 imported by the NZ Forest Service for deer culling operations in the early 50's because CAC had ceased production after WW2 due to large Army stocks on hand. They resumed production in 1950 but the Army had the first priority and .303 was in short supply for hunting. The NZFS ditched the FN ammo as soon as CAC became available. CAC hollow-pointed the Mk VII ball for NZFS use and commercial sale, as well as introducing an aluminium pointed bullet (very similar to Winchester Silvertip) for commercial sale. The NZFS hollow-pointed .303 accounted for many thousands of deer in the '50's and '60's until the commercial helicopter meat hunting got underway in the '70's when literally 100's of thousands of deer were shot and the meat exported to Europe. I was involved in it from about '67 onwards as a shooter then a gunsmith and got into the design and manufacture of net guns which were used from choppers to live capture animals for stocking deer farms. Commercial shooting is now very much reduced and only to fill specific orders for meat.

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