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roundyuk

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I bought some South African surplus a few years ago , some went bang , some went pop , the rest went click. I pulled all the bullets , mk7s , and burned the rest in my incinerator in the back yard . I still have some of the excellent bullets , about 200 now remaining out of 500 bought . Ho hum.

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Just flicked my remaining No.4 and have yet to sell these:

 

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There's 735 of them in there, pretty heavy. Dunno about UK prices but I expect to get maybe 25 quid per hundred. Some enthusiast will no doubt want them.

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Ahh, a *few years behind the boat then! :-)

 

I doubt I'll get into reloading the 303 as I won't shoot it that often, will just stick to the PPU stuff. Annoying that there isn't another option out there, but for £70 per 100 its not so bad?

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Welcome to classic vintage cartridges,roundy.

Some just have to be reloads,but in addition to PPU,Sellier &Bellot did 303 British -150 and 180,from memory-around the same price band (£75+) and may still be available.HPS do modern match ammo (£115).

Remember the once fired brass has some value-either to others who reload,or maybe to you in the future! :-)

gbal

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The bottom of the primer pocket in S&B .303 brass is concave, the depth at the flash hole is OK, but it's too shallow at the edges. Even S&B primers won't seat flush. The pockets can be cut square with a primer pocket uniformer in an electric drill and then primers will seat flush.

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I have some WW1 .303,

So as it's the anniversary of Passchendaele, I thought I'd share this.
It's a drum magazine from a Lewis Gun (1 of 4).
They were dug up somewhere and this one is of interest.
The ammo is .303 Mk VII, dated 1916 I think and surprisingly clean underneath the crud.

If you examine it you will see a ruptured case and a bullet still retained where the case is supposed to sit.
Examining the side of it and there is a hole going inwards that appears to be a bullet hole.
We surmise that it was this bullet striking the magazine that burst the case.
Further inspection shows the strike travelling in an upward direction, which suggests to us that this was fitted to a Lewis Gun on a Airplane, which may tally up with the fact that there were 4 drums recovered.

Who knows what happened to the plane, but it might be fair to say that it met its end on that day

 

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The bottom of the primer pocket in S&B .303 brass is concave, the depth at the flash hole is OK, but it's too shallow at the edges. Even S&B primers won't seat flush. The pockets can be cut square with a primer pocket uniformer in an electric drill and then primers will seat flush.

 

Agreed Chris!

 

All my problems with S&B were before I bought a Dillon Super Swage 600; I used it yesterday on a friends batch of S&B and they now accept a primer with no problems.

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