ww2 rifle range

[Pigeon driller]

Wat have i told u about going on google channa its an enciclopedia for thick ***** lol.

[simon6ppc]

.303 S.A Ball cordite MKIII round 215-grain bullet (13.9)g (Cordite is the powder used) these where hollow points and soft nosed deemed inhumane in 1899 so the remaining MK III IV and V rounds,over 45 million of them where used for target practice.

 

In 1910 the MK VII bullet 174-grain (11.3)gram Although this round appeared conventional the designers had filled the front third of the interior with aluminium or tenite (plastic) wood pulp instead of lead. Because of the heavier lead base the bullet on impact would yaw severely and deform. If you know ballistics you can imagine what damage it would do.

 

In 1938 the MKVIII was introduced caked up for range with the vickers machine gun.

 

Enfield Rifles will have been used these came in 30-06 and other big calibers but generally with bullet weights lighter than 200-grain.

 

Could be .50 cal bullets on the range if we had the yanks over on that range them bullets are around the 600-grain mark

 

The only thing with heavy bullets would be .5 vickers generally around the 500-grain mark. the .5v/580 (.5 inch vickers machine gun and 580 grain bullet)

 

Alot of these where experimental but some where used with incendiary rounds for blimps and the like...Some where used for Armour piercing

 

If you still have the 400-grain bullets simon id'e like to have a look and see if i can find out what it was fired from.

i know that over on the other side lad there is plenty of 58 grain v.max

[channa]

Probably more than the WW2 rifle range... Ady i did some course work on ww2 guns and ammunition as part of my GCSE...All the above have been verified by my teacher at the time,how else are we suppose to learn things,sure as **** can't learn much from you haha other than loading great duck ammo!!

 

Your a compendium of useless information...There you go one for you to google then you too can be a thick **** like me!!

Edited September 19, 2013 by channa

[bullet1747]

My mates FIL was digging the back garden were he lives ten year back and dug up a live grenade,phoned the police and the bomb squad was sent out to disarm it, they said his garden was the path way from the rail track were munitions were brought down

[paul99]

My mates FIL was digging the back garden were he lives ten year back and dug up a live grenade,phoned the police and the bomb squad was sent out to disarm it, they said his garden was the path way from the rail track were munitions were brought down

 

 

I don't want to take the thread off topic too far or hi-jack Simon' thread but as it's kind of related. My old High School ( an old mansion house converted to a school in the 60s) was used as a munitions dump during WW2. My Fathers PE group came across an old grenade on the short walk to the sports field while he was there which prompted another massive clearup shortly after. They didn't get it all though... fast forward 20 years or so and I come across both of these after a flash flood eroded a section of grass alongside one of the footpaths:

 

 

As far as I can tell a 9mm round and 303 bullet

It was very likely I'd have known a lot more about what it was than any of the teachers and as I knew, through the old man, of the schools past I said nothing or else spark mass hysteria.

Edited September 19, 2013 by paul99

[simon6ppc]

no problem at all pal, your hijacking nothing keep em coming, ime not the type to get all silly like some folk do on here,a local reservoir where i fish,my mates farther in law fetched home from the war two gewer sniper rifles but had to get rid for obvious reasons so he threw them in the reservoir i have fished all my life, when i got snagged on the bottom i used to pray i had hooked one ha ha,that was probably a fishermans tale i got told but you never know, cheers simon..

[Rimfireboy]

Interesting thread Simon, that's a great place for you to visit, I like to watch mudmen on tv. It's surprising how many bullets they find on the river banks.

[ukkat]

A great read. In lancs there are still some old ammo dumps Out near heapy reservoir. And ther has always been local talk about this is where they stored ammo and bbombs from the factory at buckshaw

[simon6ppc]

ye i find this sort of stuff interesting,my mate driller thinks ime sad putting this on PW ha ha,there must still be loads of places un touched from the war,i got talking at work one day to a nice man who took part in the d.day landings, i nearly got sacked when my boss found out i had been in his house all afternoon ha ha......