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At the end of the road for .303 ammo and even war reserve stocks of 7.62mm in the UK
MIlitary, we soon found that re-packed ammo was never in quite the same external condition as it was from the factory. The boxes were never vacuum sealed and as soon as the atmosphere got to the cotton bandoliers it'd start to form a corrosion on the brass and start to rust the phosphated chargers - as shown in Medics photos. Even those supposedly waterproof/airtight H-83 boxes were only nominally so and not even remotely so in ther Far East.
But, on the basis that you go to war with what you've got, we gladly used it anyway! If you heard the inner liner (what you wild antipodeans and savage colonials call the 'spam can') draw in a gulp of air when youi pulled the lid back and broke the vacuum seal, then you knew it was still good.
You COULD moan to the Ordnance Ammo techs but they'd just tell you to send it back and they'd issue replacement stocks '........ when we've investigated'. On a good day, they'd just tell you to stop xxxxing moaning and get on with it
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So the "C" is a "G". Would this be a cordite or N.S. load? I want to thank everyone for their help, especially Captain Laidler for his expertise and advise to help keep the ammo fresh. I also have a tin of 250 rounds of belted and a tin with no labels at all, the mystery can. Thanks again.
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I don't know a thing about ammo but I would suspect that being Mk7, it's cordite
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Originally Posted by
Bindi2
That photo is like a knife twisting in my heart
Don't panic, mate. I never fired that rifle... or at least not with corrosive ammo. I put a few Greeks down it and then repacked them.
This is all I got left of the HXP, then I'm down to reloading two thousand- odd cases... (five or six reloads each minimum, ten thousand shots at least.... nope, don't need any more brass)
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Originally Posted by
Dusty
Would this be a cordite or N.S. load?
Cordite. Nitrocellulose would have a Z suffix e.g. Mk.7Z
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Originally Posted by
Son
Don't panic, mate. I never fired that rifle... or at least not with corrosive ammo. I put a few Greeks down it and then repacked them.
This is all I got left of the HXP, then I'm down to reloading two thousand- odd cases... (five or six reloads each minimum, ten thousand shots at least.... nope, don't need any more brass)
Just pulling your leg. At your age i think you should need more brass other wise you are not shooting enough, lift your game sorry rate of fire even if some of its in the No6 Mk1/1 with reloads.
Last edited by Bindi2; 05-07-2011 at 08:50 AM.
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Originally Posted by
Bindi2
Just pulling your leg. At your age i think you should need more brass other wise you are not shooting enough, lift your game sorry rate of fire even if some of its in the No6 Mk1/1 with reloads.
Yeah... I know (hanging head in shame) wouldn't have fired 100 rounds outside work in the last twelve months... sad
On the bright side, ran into a few mates at the Gunshow at Cessnock today. Got invites to two ranges anytime I want to go. One is bellyfloppers, so I might give the Omark a spin- nah, probably take the Lithgow SS. The other is cowboy action- pity I don't have one of them Lithgow scatterguns. I could do well in the "Hitting a barn firing from inside" competition that they are made for.
Hey, ran into another HT owner here in town! He's also an armourer in a reserve unit! Small world.
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