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Can anyone identify these unusual .303 blank rounds?
- Thread starter Ivor Ramsden
- Start date
Your items are: Cartridges SA Blank .303 Inch Cordite with Mock Bullet Mark V1. They were introduced into service in 1901, but there were problems as the mock bulleted end of the blank broke off when firing. There were also aparently problems with ball and blank rounds being mixed up in bad light, to help prevent this the cases were blackened. Most of the blanks were later converted by the removal of the mock bullet.
Buster
Buster
smle2009
Well-Known Member
Hi Ivor,
they are Mk VI cordite blanks with a mock bullet,these mock bullets were later removed due to coming adrift on firing and causeing injury.
They were then called Mk VI cordite blank without mock bullet.
The Mk II C headstamp on yours would indicate that these blanks were made from Mk II C ball cases as was often the case
Cheers
Tony
they are Mk VI cordite blanks with a mock bullet,these mock bullets were later removed due to coming adrift on firing and causeing injury.
They were then called Mk VI cordite blank without mock bullet.
The Mk II C headstamp on yours would indicate that these blanks were made from Mk II C ball cases as was often the case
Cheers
Tony
cartridgecorner
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Manufactured by: R arrow L is Royal Laboratory, Woolwich Arsenal. and B is: Birmingham Metal and Munitions Company Ltd.(Division of Nobel Explosives Company Limited, Glasgow, Scotland)