Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
Regarding the ammo used by the snipers (above). I can tell you that he got the ammunition he was issued with. If the ammo storeman listened, he would put the rest of the container aside, marked as 'for issue to the snipers' The snipers would go onto the ranges, accurately zero-in, knowing that the next lot, from the same batch would perform the same. The same applied to green-spot.
I wonder if David was referring to the special match ammunition made by Dominion Arsenals in Canadaicon for sale to the DCRA? DAC made a match grade ammunition with a turquoise band ostensibly for civilian shooting competitions starting in 1939? but any military sniper familiar with use of that ammunition might have requested it, or is that a stretch too far? I also remember Kynoch making a match grade .303 Britishicon cartridge in the inter-war years.

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Quote Originally Posted by Daan Kemp View Post
I wonder where the sniper would have obtained 'match grade' ammunition or hunting cartridges while in combat.
Both Canada's Dominion Arsenal and Kynoch made match grade .303 British ammunition. DA starting in 1939 if memory serves me right and Kynoch a couple of years earlier so it's not in the realm of impossibility for a sniper to have had "Match Grade" ammunition during the war.