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Got this a while ago its an inert Russian 14mm x 108 ? a 50 BMG round on the left and a 303 on the Rt for scale I am thinking the Red/Black tip denotes AP/Incd round would have liked a live one but cannot post live ammo sadly the H/S is pretty unreadable can make out some stuff but not enough top copy here has a date 71 I think or just make out.

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[browningautorifle]

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Red/black should be APT. Here's a few of mine. I have a couple of .55, a live and a drill, a 13mm anti tank rifle cartridge along with a 12.7 that was badly deactivated many years ago. The other line is the 12.7 for scale and the .50 crowd, starting off with spotter and ending with a couple blank rounds I picked up...all this during my service time in.

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Is white incendiary Jim, is that a 50 spotter round in the second pic was that used with the 106mm RCL rifle ! also looks like you have a prac Boys A/T rifle shell.
I have got 2 .55 Boys live ones and a Kynoch practice round will dig the prac out tomorrow..
The live boys fetch @$70/AU. Nice to see some of your gear getting aired Jim nice & clean too that blank 50 is nice as well. Cheers thanx for sharing.

[browningautorifle]

Yes the silver tip is incendiary, the shorty is a 106mm spotter that I assembled(LC 67). The real bullets are an incendiary/ tracer. Red/yellow...could never find a safe one, they aren't safe to have around the house. One Boys is a drill round (DAC 42)and one is live (K43). The blank .50, one I took from the gun we cleared and the other was just hanging around...knew I'd need them.

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K love the just hanging around bit, I will dig my Kynoch .55 prac out and a .5 spotter I have.
Understand the need to have them syndrome when we left the range had a need to go to the dunny and stuff the 303 rounds down the gaiters then when you rattled the pockets hey presto no rattles, I think they knew the score but did not really police us that hard as cadets, mind you it was a Commonwealth offence still is to remove live ammo from the range however never got caught in the 2 years I was a cadet!

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Sorry Jim foggy memory and my bad I do not have a Kynoch Boys prac my .55 is a Radway Green 1943 WII, also pictured is my .5 spotter for the 106mm it is L C (Lake City) 7 big space then a 1.

[browningautorifle]

Your spotter bullet is different from what ours were. Ours had a double color tip, a red ball tracer to the target and exploded in a flash of magnesium powder. Red and yellow I think, typical of an Incendiary/ tracer... I should paint mine up...

[muffett.2008]

BAR, ours is the same.Attachment 82690
.........but I think the explosive composition is White Phos.
I spent a few years with Anti Tank.

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Looks like mine will be getting a face lift and painted correctly this is how I got it no biggie more time out in the shed.

[muffett.2008]

Your pill looks wrong, the M8 had a tip detonator, so was wider and slightly concave.