.50 caliber and above.

[tigbrand]

My larger caliber british hmg/at cartridges,these are not what i collect but i always buy them if they are cheap or a swap. The hardest to find are vickers cases/rounds in gc,all mine are all poor condition so if any one has any spare!

 

[spotter]

Tigbrands photo

 

[tigbrand]

I Forgot! .50 calibre HMG, .55 Boys A/T,15mm Besa HMG.

 

[TonyE]

Here are a few of the British \"heavies\" from my collection. I have posted mainly pictures of the drill and dummy rounds as they are visually more interesting than the ball, AP and tracers etc.

First the .50 Brownings:

Regards
TonyE

 

[TonyE]

Next some .50 Spotting rounds for the Wombat. These are all experimental rounds by Kynoch.

TonyE

 

[TonyE]

Next some .50 Vickers.
Drill D.Mark I
Drill D Mark IN
Semi AP F Mark Iz
AP W Mark Iz

TonyE

 

[TonyE]

These are the .5 Vickers semi-rimmed version, the V/565 for export. It was used by a number of countries including Hungary and in the Italian Breda.

TonyE

 

[TonyE]

Some .55 Boys drill rounds.
L. to R.
Homer Guard expedient made with red painter cast lead bullet and fired case
Drill D Mark I wartine (no platng)
Drill D Mark I South African manufacture
Inspectors U Mark I

TonyE

 

[TonyE]

Here are some .55 Boys drill rounds. Two wartime expedient D Mark Is (no plating) and a \"proper\" plated and fluted D Mark I.

TonyE

 

[TonyE]

Finally a couple of .55 Boys oddities.
The left hand round is a solid brass turned projectile, intended as a ballistic vehicle for the proposed W Mark 3 composite rigid AP which had a tungsten core mounted in a plastic sabot. It never entered service.

The other is the .55/.303 training round, intended to be used with a special barrel for use on ranges that had insufficient danger space to fire the full sized round. Although mentioned in the Boys manual it did not see service, as the recoil was considered insufficient to simulate the real thing.

TonyE

 

[tigbrand]

Nice collection indeed,never realised there were so many variants.great pics too,Tony.

 

[spotter]

dont have many 50cal
These three in the link are all marked FNB 03 and the link are stamped ROS M9

 

[spotter]

And three more ,The drill round is marked K 73 L1A1
The two smaller ones marked L C 7 7