Thread: reliability of surplus WW2 era 303 ammo

I've got a bunch of CAC and other random rounds made in Australia and the UK WW2 period.
I had to sight in my rifle, so grabbed the worst looking stuff to fire first, not all corroded badly, but I expect that most of the corrosion may have been inside the casings?
Some of these things were blowing up in the rifle and my hand got a bit of soot from the gas port.
I also had a number of hangfires, but some of it shot rather well.

I've had the odd bit of hxp Greek ammo split down the side too, but not like this.
The good stuff from greece is getting hard to find now, but many say to me is all they shoot is the CAC stuff at the range.
Yes I know about flushing out the barrel with hot water afterwards.

Should I just pull them all out and reload? I don't pay anymore than $1 per round for this stuff.
I do have more mint looking rounds that I have not shot yet, but its the first time I've used this ammo.
Interestingly the only ones that failed like this were all 1944.