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A bullet painted BLACK was the true explosive. I've never sectioned
one of these so I don't know whats inside them, I may be daft but
I'm not stupid.
I remember some years ago someone told me he'd been
given a huge chest full of asorted ammunition. In it was a
small wooden box containing either 5 or 10 (can't
remember which) .303 rounds. Each had either a black
tip or totally black bullet (again can't remember which)
and he didn't know what the hell they were. Could these
be the same thing as above?
Jonathan Laws
Could well be, but I have seen early cupro knickel Mk7 black, they turn
out have become tarnished, like silver will go black. The best
indication is the headstamp. One thing I forgot to mention AP WI had a
green varnish round the primer some of the bigger MG rounds had a
green tipped bullet.
I was once given several rounds of .303 with black tips, the primers had
been struck several times, in various weapons, the bloke that gave them
to me had been in the R.A.F. in WW2, he had removed them from machine
guns that had jammed. When I extracted the bullets the cases were empty,
as bright inside as the day they were made, I came to the conclusion
that it had been sabotage, by some one in the cartridge factory, knowing
the procedure in the manufacture of .303, I couldn't see how else they
got through the production line, not so many of the same mark.
Retlaw
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