Any help on this little lot would be much appreciated.....This is a lot were all live when I bought them, i had them made inert and then sent from the States. so my questions are.
Pics 1 & 2..... SA Ball mk7 Greenwood & Batley 1945. In Tonys book it shows this headstamp but in the notes if I am reading it right it says "pre 1944 bullet secured by 3x120 slit crimps..... post 44 bullet secured by neck crimp" my case is dated 45 and has 3 crimps.
pics 3,4,5.... I wonder if this is a re-load it was sold as British 303 softpoint.
Pics 6,7
As Tonys is the only book I have for id headstamps for 303's there is a FN headstamp in it for grenade discharger but not a ball round. so the question is was this used for UK guns and what type of bullet is it?
Pic 8,9
the headstamp on this round is so faint even with a microscope and hand lens you can only just make out 1/2 the letter R next to G. You can see a 7 but the date only one number and thats the last one of possibly two and that might be a 3 or5 is this just a bad headstamp.
I bought 2 x 303 rounds which I was told were made in Iraq the first was made in 1935 with equipment shipped out from the uk. It was pointed out that the only difference between the first run and the last batch which was in 1957 is the neck crimp. the early ones have 3x3mm crimps and the later ones
have 3x7mm crimps. Pics 10,11,12 show a round which is ment to be one of the first from 1935
pics 13,14,15 this is ment to be from 1957 and form the last year of production. I was also informed that any surplus was destroyed in the Iraq war. Can anyone confirm this for me please.......
Many thanks.....paul.
Pics 1 & 2..... SA Ball mk7 Greenwood & Batley 1945. In Tonys book it shows this headstamp but in the notes if I am reading it right it says "pre 1944 bullet secured by 3x120 slit crimps..... post 44 bullet secured by neck crimp" my case is dated 45 and has 3 crimps.
pics 3,4,5.... I wonder if this is a re-load it was sold as British 303 softpoint.
Pics 6,7
As Tonys is the only book I have for id headstamps for 303's there is a FN headstamp in it for grenade discharger but not a ball round. so the question is was this used for UK guns and what type of bullet is it?
Pic 8,9
the headstamp on this round is so faint even with a microscope and hand lens you can only just make out 1/2 the letter R next to G. You can see a 7 but the date only one number and thats the last one of possibly two and that might be a 3 or5 is this just a bad headstamp.
I bought 2 x 303 rounds which I was told were made in Iraq the first was made in 1935 with equipment shipped out from the uk. It was pointed out that the only difference between the first run and the last batch which was in 1957 is the neck crimp. the early ones have 3x3mm crimps and the later ones
have 3x7mm crimps. Pics 10,11,12 show a round which is ment to be one of the first from 1935
pics 13,14,15 this is ment to be from 1957 and form the last year of production. I was also informed that any surplus was destroyed in the Iraq war. Can anyone confirm this for me please.......
Many thanks.....paul.
