1941 Winchester .303

[togor]

Found this. No doubt some of you knew this fellow.

History of the .303 British Calibre Service Ammunition Round

Short service history with BP before Cordite comes along, but Nitrocellulose is right there too. Given reason per the history was Cordite being superior in warmer climates (Empire business)

Real reason would look to be more about having a home grown solution, regardless of other considerations.

History of Cordite Production

[Alan de Enfield]

Found this. No doubt some of you knew this fellow.

History of the .303 British Calibre Service Ammunition Round

Short service history with BP before Cordite comes along, but Nitrocellulose is right there too. Given reason per the history was Cordite being superior in warmer climates (Empire business)

Real reason would look to be more about having a home grown solution, regardless of other considerations.

History of Cordite Production

Having looked at the propellant, you may find the history of the bullet itself of interest ;

It does go into some detail about wound profiles of various 'Mk' of the 303.

Warning graphic descriptions[/B]

Example :

Major Mathias, RAMC, who inspected the battlefield after Omdurman, observed a young man, who had been struck twice by a Mark IV bullet,
He had a bullet wound of the left leg above the knee. The wound entrance was clean-cut and very small. The projectile had struck the femur, just above the internal condyle; the whole of the lower end of this bone, and upper end of the tibi, were shattered to pieces, the knee joint being completely disorganised.
He had also been wounded in the right shoulder...The whole of the shoulder joint and scapular were shattered to pieces. In neither case was there any sign of a wound of exit.