Hello chaps,the clip of cases that I originally enquired about have only just recently arrived.The dealers images of this clip showed one bullet fitted,which he didn't mention at all,and about which I didn't enquire.I assumed that as one case was headstamped PII,this bullet would most likely be the aluminium cored practice version.It is,in fact,something else,
it's strongly magnetic all over,and about 30mm from the tip down seems
to have been chemically browned,it almost seems as if it's been copper
plated over the nickel jacket.I believe ball ammunition was made for the
Boys rifle,and I think Practice Mk 1 was lead cored ball type,would it have
been CNCS,to account for the magnetic attraction,and does the brown tip
indicate something????