I found and used old .303 ammo that had been under the old farm house my grandfather put there in the 1950s it had floods over it and drought foul heat in summer this is in Australia out near the pilliga scrub they performed no problem, i was a bit worried about the first round . This was in 1980 when I was a boy

The 1960's vintage POF .303, in the 32 round boxes, is noted for lots of hang-fires.

@SnoopReddogg

9 ай бұрын

Not just the POF 303 ammo their modern stuff is notorious for misfires with hard struck primers. The 9mm and 12ga ammo out of Wah Ordinance Factory is utter shyt. I'd hate to be relying on their 7.62 and 5.56 ammo if I was a hapless Pakistani frontier scout on the Indian Border.

@stevephillips8719

8 ай бұрын

Damm, you got there first! All the POF ammo I have used was Click BANG! Click BANG! I still won matches with it, but it's like shooting a flintlock.

Who ever did that book got the velocities all wrong. The mark 7 is a 174 gr. @ about 2,400 fps. The mark 8 was about 100 fps faster with the same bullet.

@kyfirearms

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the information.

@stevephillips8719

8 ай бұрын

The Mk8 was a boattailed bullet.

HXP...Greek manufactured... bought IIRC 4 cans of the 30-06 from the CMP in 2008 shortly after that election...in anticipation of a panic...I get tired if the phrase.."The smell of Cordite"...when no one knows WTF it is...and that it hasn't been used in a damn long time...thanx for this vid, my friend

ha ha, cordite ammo... reminds me of when I went shooting with a buddy and he brought his .303 with cordite ammo. It felt like we were shooting some old flint locks with the sometimes delayed firing.

@kyfirearms

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I have read that. I didn't really know what it was when I bought it. I wad going to shoot some but haven't gotten around to it yet.

@FullLeadTaco

6 жыл бұрын

The stuff we used (old stuff of course) was very inaccurate and inconsistent... but fun(ny) to shoot

@EzraMerr

2 жыл бұрын

I believe the ball type propellant are the ones with delay issues not string load cordite

@FullLeadTaco

2 жыл бұрын

@@EzraMerr nope, these were cordite that we shot with the delayed firing

pof ammo is known for hang fires. berdan primed garbage, the flash holes are very small , this causes the hangfires

@kyfirearms

3 жыл бұрын

It is definitely not the best ammo. I got it cheap and as a novelty item. Thanks for the comment.

The main problem with the old 303 amo was the material used in the primer was VERY corrosive and unless you thoroughly cleaned the firearm after you shoot the residual would eat the breach and destroy the rifling, i was looking to buy a lee Enfield that was dated 1900 I put a box of 303 British though I couldn't hit the target at all and after firing each round the spent case didn't want to eject it had major pitting in the breach. To fix that problem was going to cost $800 Australian for a new barel plus a replacement bolt so I definitely wasn't getting that wall hanger

Very interesting, thanks for the video.

@kyfirearms

6 жыл бұрын

TreeTopFlier Thanks. There is a great reloading community that I just joined, you should check it out. join.slack.com/t/reloading/shared_invite/enQtMzExNzIwOTIyNzI0LWQ3MGE2ZDQ0ZGUzMWMyZTY3MDViNjQzNTI2MmNkZWU0MzE5ODM5YzA0YzM4NGRjMjk3ZGI0N2MzMGQyY2MxMWU

@littleblacklab1

Жыл бұрын

Hello, this link doesn’t work anymore. Is the reloading group still active? I wouldn’t mind checking them out.

Really interesting

@kyfirearms

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks

So basically cordite it was a dinamite derivative

@kyfirearms

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I believe that is correct.

My question being, can you reload with it? Was the primer different?

@kyfirearms

4 жыл бұрын

It is berdan primed. So reloading is possible, but difficult. Even if you were able to get berdan primers or convert them to boxer prmers, I would think they might be good for 2 firings tops. Thanks for commenting.

@2009Berghof

3 жыл бұрын

As stated below-Berdan Primers-common in Europe years ago. Few reloaded these even decadess ago when you could still get Berdan primers-almost impossible today. Second, British & POF Berdan primers are a very big size, larger than standard. The simple answer is, NO.

@factorybear5264

3 жыл бұрын

I would love a box. I would only open one to play with and hold on to the rest

Yep... books have good information in 'em.

They all should shoot fine, I've shot plenty of exmil through my old 1915 .303 just give it a good clean after as some those can have mercury in the priming compound and that is very bad for your barrel.

I got a bunch of it. I heard a cure for it. Stick it in your car on a hot summers day,

Colossal COOL!

@kyfirearms

6 жыл бұрын

+ItAintJustPaint Thanks, I thought it was COOL.

Spaghetti powder 🤣

@kyfirearms

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, that's what it is.

Cordite... And then bullet fires for no reason... Becouse it's cordite.

@kyfirearms

4 жыл бұрын

I have shot some of this and you are correct. It's almost like shooting a muzzle loader. You hear the primer fire and then a pause before the cordite fires. Interesting stuff for sure.

@yakumoyukari4405

4 жыл бұрын

@@kyfirearms I meant that it's fired spontaneously becouse was extremely unstable. Looking at HMS Saint Vincent IJN Mikasa IJN Kawachi IJN Mutsu And other ships that detonated at port (and they were using cordite chargers) for no reason +HMS Queen Mary, HMS Invincible, HMS Indefatigable, HMS Hood, USS Arizona, IJN Fuso, IJN Yamashiro, IJN Yamato, IJN Musashi, IJN Kongo etc that exploded like fireworks in WW1 and WW2.

@littleblacklab1

Жыл бұрын

Remember the Maine?

3:30 "this is a good website" -shows a book 😂😂😂