Thread: .303 ammunition

As a student of history, it always pains me to see the decline of a New Zealand "institution". Someone recently lent me a book that chronicled the advent of the Colonial Ammunition Company (CAC). Whilst not able to recall the events specifically or chronologically It is very much a struggle of hope to disappointment then despair then hope and for a time fortune and then loss.

In essence, the Colonial Ammunition Company and its wares were a remarkable achievement for a country so isolated from anywhere "civilised" at the time, the pioneering spirit and the attention to detail in the final product speaks volumes, in my opinion, for the people that produced it.