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CAC
C VI
Projectile is silver round nose
Interested in approx age and purpose if not standard issue.
Projectile have a stamped crimp in neck at base of bullet, one on each side opposite each other. per photo
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Cheers
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NZ made (Colonial Ammuniton Company) MK VI rounds loaded with cordite. Standard issue until replaced with the MkVII round. Roughly pre/early WWI era.
Google "Mkvi .303" will give you more detailed info on the round.
Found a few of the projectiles, as well as the MK VII projectiles at the back of the farm which was used as part of a WWI training camp.
Thanks team, appreciate it.
I do remember as a teen firing a ton of those heavy round nosed rounds out of dads' 'Three Oh'. Had phenomenal penetration through native timber. I for one would not be hiding behind a foot diameter tree from someone intending to do you harm with those. Straight through and most of the way through the next tree:o
215 grain round nose solid.This is the .303 ammo that the old time ivory hunters used for killing bull elephants. Arthur Neuman, WDM Bell et all.
Must have been effective, as there are no elephants left in the wild here anymore.
There you go. Don't know why the extra image appears..
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Shhh, copyright infringement ha ha.Quote:
Originally Posted by muzza
Yeah, I have all the books you can on CAC. Cost me a small fortune.
Barry is still alive I presume? I visited his workshop long long time ago back in my black powder days.
The bullets are still good, and I have a number of them. So will probably pull them and reuse. Anyone got a good load they like?
Ken Waters Pet Load for a 215gn Woodleigh was 46gn of RL19 - very accurate apparently.
Another forum guy gave me his load for the same bullet as 43.5 gn of 2209 doing 3100fps out of a Ruger No. 1. He told me "It had a fairly short barrel as the previous owner had put a suppressor on it. It is about mid range load on the ADI handloaders guide. I tried it at 300m with a 100m zero to see what it was like at longer ranges and I managed to get about 1.5 inch 3 shot group...albeit nearly 32 inches low at 300. ES on the speeds was from 2056-2083 FPS averaged 2072 FPS across 5 shots."
And one more, owned for 60 yrs one of the first lot I started my collection withAttachment 210078Attachment 210079
Jeeze that looks old,scarred and pretty brittle with age....
And the bullet looks pretty old too....:o
I have string tied pkts from 1919
Have just reloaded some 1917 dated CAC brass. After tumbling annealing and sizing it’s like brand new. ��Quote:
Originally Posted by Peteforskeet
Boxer primed?Quote:
Originally Posted by omark
Ive shot wallabies with them LOL.... penertration was NOT an issue.
Muzza's correct, and the lower of these 2 rounds is the current whale euthanasing round! (.303 above).Attachment 210186Quote:
Originally Posted by muzza
No they are berdan primedQuote:
Originally Posted by Jhon
I have all of his books also as well as Lynn’s. I’m not sure if Barry is still aroundQuote:
Originally Posted by zimmer
@omark I missed Lynn's A Little Further A Little Faster over the course of it appearing in a couple of NZ auctions. I eventually scored a copy in Oz, cheaper than my failed postal bids at the auctions. I was wrapped.Quote:
Originally Posted by omark
Did you reprime them? If so with what primers?.Quote:
Originally Posted by omark
I use the.250 kynochs. 1960s but we’ll stored. You have toQuote:
Originally Posted by Jhon
Use a ram prime with a larger stem to seat them.
Lots of work bur well worth the reward.
I cringe when I hear of guys scrapping good cac brass.
It’s a great book and one of my most favourite reads.Quote:
Originally Posted by zimmer
Yeah I'm sitting on a heap of them I've collected over the years. Also have a tin of primers I bought a few years back, from Gunworks I think. Never got around to trying them.. don't know if they are the right ones or not..also not sure if they are corrosive..so kind of a last ditch thing to have on hand. With what components are going for the last ditch might be closer than expected lol..Quote:
Originally Posted by omark
Good info on the ram prime..I have one. Did you acquire or make the larger cup?
Treat all .250 primers as corrosive (no big deal if you clean correctly). I got someone to spin me up a larger stem for the ram prime .Quote:
Originally Posted by Jhon
