.303 ammunition

[Toxxyc]

Your .303 being.....?

Currently, sad and alone... :P

[Minerva10210]

Ah, I see I got mentioned, but cannot take the credit

The rounds I have are old, but think the headstamps are in the 50's or somewhere there, will have a look tonight and post some pics.

[Minerva10210]

So remembered to take a pic of the ammo I have ;)

Not all *that* old and cool and stuff...



Markings are as follows:
PMP 66
MK.7
And
PMP 69
MK.7
And
A82
7,7
R1M4Z

Alas, I wish I *did* have older stuff

[Terrylee]

An early British .303 military cartridge: Mk.I, Black Powder, dated 1889.

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[Bundu Dave]

Just out of interest I dug out some old 303 rounds I have had for years they are marked R ^ L and C V at the bottom if you are looking at it in the same format as the above photo the bullet is a hollow point

[A-R]

Just out of interest I dug out some old 303 rounds I have had for years they are marked R ^ L and C V at the bottom if you are looking at it in the same format as the above photo the bullet is a hollow point

Most likely the dreaded hollowpoints made at Dum Dum arsenal near Calcutta. These should have collectors value.

[Terrylee]

Mark V cartridge introduced in November, 1899 and made in the UK. Very similar to the earlier Mk.IV hollow point. The Mk.IV saw very limited use in the Boer War. The Mk.V was used against the Zulus during the 1906 Rebellion.

[Toxxyc]

Most likely the dreaded hollowpoints made at Dum Dum arsenal near Calcutta. These should have collectors value.

Hollow points have value? I have some old .303 rounds at home with a very large, deep hollow point bullet. The bullets are silver coloured, very much like those old ball ammo bullets, but with the hollow point (see pics below).

PS: I don't know how many of you remember that package of rounds I posted the other day from King's Norton Metal Co, but I found that someone along the line had a bunch of those packages and some of them were opened. The resulting headstamps of the rounds inside looks like this:



The bullets look like these. They're the same as the hollow points I have, just, well, not hollow point. Oh yes, interesting mention, the primers are seated VERY deep in the cases. In all of them. What's interesting to me is how long these bullets are:







EDIT: Oh yes, and according to the history of the rounds/factory posted on here, they seem to be made in 1916.

[Terrylee]

Made by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, New Haven, U.S.A., British military contract, First World War.