Reply With Quoteive also got this little fat one ,with a no12 stamped on the bottom,sorry its not very clear (cant take more pics as its now behind glass)
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16th January 2011, 08:56 PM #11Senior Member
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I think pinfire ammo was very common in the 19th century but fell out of favour in the early 20th century, mainly because of the hazard to safety that it posed. For about a year in the late 1980s I was in charge of a `returned ammo register', receiving mainly SAA from police and military sources, for disposal. All the pinfire stuff had to be packed very carefully in tissue paper then into small boxes and then into ammo boxes.
Any live or dug ordnance shown in my posts has been dealt with accordingly by eod personel
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16th January 2011, 09:06 PM #12ADMINISTRATOR
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Last edited by spotter; 16th January 2011 at 09:09 PM.
Any Live or Dug ordnance shown by me has been disposed of by military EOD personnel .
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21st April 2012, 06:07 PM #13Premium Member
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Hello Allan,
Here are two 7mm pinfires, one blank and the other ball. Both are inert.
Headstamps for both are; 7 over ELEY.
Cheers,
Guy.
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