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

[Neuraleanus]

Today I shot 50 rounds of 1975 HXP in a couple of my No 1, Mk III Enfields. It generally shot well, the only minor issue was that occasionally a cartridge would stick a bit requiring me to pull back on the bolt a bit harder.

[CINDERS]

Keep an eye on the clips if you happen across a 5 hole one on the sides that is WWI vintage and worth a good amount of $'s I found about 10 in the lot I have collected over the years never noticed them till I saw one for sale on fleabay.
I also have @50 of the other WW1 type with the cross instead of the holes on the bottom.

[Garandy]

Looks like the price went up.

[togor]

Indeed. From 81 to 88 cents per round.

Still....it will move.

[CINDERS]

Works out to $508/Aud/spam can.
At a rough exchange rate of .67 cents Aud/USD Aud $1.69 cents per round the stuff is getting expensive.

I though when my mate years ago bought a unopened MF spam can for $175/Aud that was expensive mind you it was a long time ago, WWI MKVI rounds can go for @$4 ea the MkII cordites are a bit more.
Our new laws both firearms & cartridge collecting have pretty much destroyed the point of being a collector of anything more than fresh air they have totally screwed us to the wall then they have super glued us there just for good measure.
It's knocked the stuffings from all of us what I have collected over 50 years is basically worthless now perhaps maybe scrap value............!

[Sapper740]

Our new laws both firearms & cartridge collecting have pretty much destroyed the point of being a collector of anything more than fresh air they have totally screwed us to the wall then they have super glued us there just for good measure. It's knocked the stuffings from all of us what I have collected over 50 years is basically worthless now perhaps maybe scrap value............!

What's particularly galling about liberal governments lumping milsurps into firearms bans is how seldom they are used in crimes. I can only speak about Canada and the U.S. because those are the two countries I'm most familiar with but as far as I recollect there have only been two murders committed in the U.S. with milsurp rifles and none in Canada. Everyone remembers that JFK was shot with a Carcano Model 38, fewer might remember that Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers was shot with a M1917 Enfield Rifle. When you consider the millions of military surplus rifles sold into the civilian market yet the odds of being shot by one are virtually nil. They simply aren't the weapon of choice. In countries where firearms have been banned the knife is now the weapon of choice. Seldom does a week go by when there isn't another knifing in Great Britain or Israel reported so using Lib-Think a bayonet, K-Bar, and ceremonial sword ban is soon to follow.

[Alan de Enfield]

Seldom does a week go by when there isn't another knifing in Great Britain or Israel reported so using Lib-Think a bayonet, K-Bar, and ceremonial sword ban is soon to follow.

We have not been able to buy / sell bayonets on ebay for many years.

If I look at a bayonet on Ebay USA and click buy it now, I get a message saying it cannot be sold to the UK

[togor]

In the USA at the moment there is a broad rethink among rank and file liberals that maybe this is not the best time to voluntarily dis-arm and trust to the government. So far scant evidence that this attitude has bubbled up to the level of elected officials, but if things continue along current lines then you will see it.

Milsurps are not used in crimes but that is only because alternatives exist. If WW2 guns were only semi-autos in circulation, criminals would seek them out. Firepower matters.

[togor]

Couple more cans of the HXP 71 came this weekend. Will see how it shoots through the Maltby with the 2-groove barrel, alongside some 1941 Winchester.

Even knocked together a funnel rig out of whatever scrap tubing I could find so that I can flush the corrosive primer residue out straight away at the range with some boiling hot water. Old school, people will think I'm crazy, LOL.

[Rick]

Even knocked together a funnel rig out of whatever scrap tubing I could find so that I can flush the corrosive primer residue out straight away at the range with some boiling hot water.

You suspect (or know) that this Greek HXP has the old style corrosive primers? I thought they were well gone by then?

The nice thing about when you're shooting muzzle stuffers like my .54 caliber Hawken replica, it's so easy to take the barrel out of the stock, remove the nipple, and then stick that end in a pail of your favorite solution of boiling water, and use a mop on the end of a cleaning rod to pump that boiling hot water back and forth through the barrel, rinse and repeat.