WW2 Gunnery range - February 2010
Article about: HI all I have been back to the gunnery range I know about and had a really good day. The place is jammed with stuff and I end up only searching an area about 10metres square each time I go b
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Re: WW2 Gunnery range - February 2010
in the pics of the 5 303 cases
thay have a rectangular strike on the base
that can only have bin fired from a bren gun
as far as i know at that time no other british 303 gun had a rectangular firing pin cheers ian
the top two ?could be 1919a4 or number 4
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Re: WW2 Gunnery range - February 2010
the extraction mark may denote a parsial miss feed
as normaly the extractor does not mark the case
cheers ian
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Re: WW2 Gunnery range - February 2010
Crackin finds mate... sure is a little gold mine you've got yourself there!
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Re: WW2 Gunnery range - February 2010
well done Steve, nice to find some complete 303's most of the one i find a broken or so brittle when you touch them they fall apart. Are you digging in sand?
That brass grenade plug is quite rare i think?
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Re: WW2 Gunnery range - February 2010
Woody - thanks mate
Whitehunter - Yes it is sand so the cartridges have faired much better being in ground that is 'drier' thank soil. As to the brass grenade nut, this is the first one I have ever seen. Anyone know just how 'rare' they are ?
Cheers
Steve T
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Re: WW2 Gunnery range - February 2010
Steve
What a volume! there's some lovely finds, but I hope you didn't have to walk too far from your car because lugging that weight back must have been something. I know what you mean when you say cleaning them took bl##dy hours. I'm still slogging through all those tags I found! can only manage 40 a night.
Your site looks very promising being a former range but always remain cautious because there's still likely to be a fair amount of unexploded ordnance.
Keep up the good work.
LUCKYSTRIKE
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Re: WW2 Gunnery range - February 2010
Great stuff Steve thanks for sharing. They sure had some strong firing pins popping on that range. Nice clean, deep strikes. Where they shooting into a berm?
Jay
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