Mystery 12Ga

**CINDERS** · 10-12-2022 03:29 AM

I received this today along with some other unwanted ammo from a friend who's inlaw passed away and he wanted a good home for it.
So I ended up with some 310 Super packet with 25 lead projectiled rounds.
A full packet 32 rounds MF 55 MKVII ball and this 12 Ga cartridge which has me baffled.

So it is a paper roll crimp no shot size, head stamp is Eley Kynoch 12 Ga CIANZ it is 46mm long and is stood next to a Win 2 3/4" 12 Ga plastic.
I cannot hear any shot rattling in it but that does not mean there is none but there are no other markings on it, the CIANZ it this a NZ icon

firm.

I thought it may be a cordite round for starting a tractor, could anyone here help identify this cartridge for me it is very much appreciated by myself.

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**browningautorifle** · 10-12-2022 07:24 AM

Old days found they made some very short shotshells. You can still find reference to two inch and inch and three quarters shells in birdshot and others. I can find two references to Eley short shells...

12 GAUGE ELEY-KYNOCH #7 2 Your source for Collectible Ammunition

12 GAUGE REM-UMC SHURSHOT 1 3/4 Your source for Collectible Ammunition

**CINDERS** · 10-12-2022 09:43 AM

Thanks for that Jim I will wait and see what the CIANZ turns up I did a search for it and ended up in NZ at a church site!

Also picked up this really nice ICIL 12 Ga packet from the net, pretty stoked with it its another area I dabble in.
Some of my packets I brought some 8 years ago could possibly be worth $250/Aud each judging by the current market.

So the result is on the top of this 12 Ga packet it's the "I" that is very faint almost missing on the H/S of the 12 Ga round in Pic # 2 of the round so there you go;

ICIANZ ~ Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia icon

and New Zealand. (Job done.)