Missing the old Greek HXP ball ammo? More seems to have been found.

[Rick]

I've always been curious why they made so much .303 unless it was to support the Greek Commie insurgents in the 50s.

I did some all expenses paid vacations in the Balkans in the 1990's. That was actually the Third Balkan War after Tito's death, if you count them originally going at it when it was part of the Austria-Hungarian Empire hot mess leading up to WWI.

[sidebar: WWI was an inevitability, whether or not there was an Archduke Ferdinand, Sofia, and a murderous Serb: an excellent (and depressing) detailed audio narrative of the military and political history of WW1 is Dan Carlin's Hardcore History "Blueprint For Armageddon" series. Much of it covers the decisions and thinking at the top levels, but almost as much covers the perspectives and historical writing of the individual soldiers in the trenches. https://www.dancarlin.com/product/ha...eddon-series/]

WWII was the excuse/opportunity for them to go back at it again i.e. the Chetniks and Ustache in the Second Balkan War. I talked to a couple of German WWII veterans at a gasthaus I was having lunch and beer at while touring the alpine passes of Europe on a motorcycle. One of the things that stuck in my memory is that through the bartender who was also acting as interpreter, they told me Germans thought being sent to the Russian Front was bad, but being sent to the Balkans was far, far worse. They said that if the Russians captured you, they'd just murder you instead of taking you prisoner. If they got their hands on you in the Balkans, it would be a long, excrutiatingly painful death.

And then Tito died... and within weeks the Ustache and Chetniks picked right up where they left off... the Third Balkan War. Much of that history involved regular border clashes with Greece, but I don't remember Greece doing much of anything in the final Balkan War that we got an invitation to attend. I also don't recall seeing any British Empire weapons in all the weapons we seized in the UNPAs that would have been fed .303 British

That's one UN mission that appears to have succeeded - 30 years later and the reorganized Balkan nations seem to be pretty much at peace. Quit a few guys who did tours over there have gone back to see what Medak looks like now, the Maslenica Bridge, Dragovic Road, etc. They had no concerns with taking their wives and kids with them, those who took them along.

Tito must have been as masterful a leader/dictator to bottle all that hatred up, have them living in peace together while dancing around playing coy to avoid being consumed by the Soviet bear. All while stocking Yugoslavia with species of wild game to satisfy his passion for hunting. He's probably also responsible for Serbia becoming very good at manufacturing military arms and ammunition after WWII.

Anyways, those 190 grain .303 bullets currently offered for sale by PP are new manufacture and well past the age of the Hurricane fighter aircraft.