Headstamp RAL 32.

**sdesic** · 09-22-2013, 12:58 PM

Need help with this catridge.
Headstamp RAL 32. VII

I don't have whole catridge...
it is broken off on 36mm

Who made it and when...

**Adrian Stevenson** · 09-22-2013, 01:02 PM

British .303.

You have mis read the Broad Arrow stamp for an "A".

RL = Royal Laboratory, Woolwich Arsenal, Kent, UK.

It is a Mark VII and it has been fired from a Bren Gun going by the indentation to the primer.

Cheers, Ade.

**John Brandon** · 09-22-2013, 01:04 PM

RAL might be R^L in which case it would be Royal Laboratories manufactured in 1932 mark 7

**John Brandon** · 09-22-2013, 01:05 PM

you beat me to it Ade, i was just writing that

**sdesic** · 09-22-2013, 01:09 PM

English catridge ... OK
In Bosnia and Herzegovina... probably help to partisans in WWII
bren gun ammo... first one for me

Thank you for fast reply

**Lugerlout** · 09-22-2013, 01:10 PM

I'm not sure of the RAL....it looks a bit more like RNL to me.....could be wrong but it looks like a Mk VII (Mk7) .303 case, MkVII round introduced around 1910.....the primer looks strange....its deformed outwards rather than having a neat firing pin indentation, suppose that could be the result of corrosion.

**sdesic** · 09-22-2013, 01:21 PM

Looking closely it is R^L so ... English

**m3bobby** · 09-22-2013, 01:29 PM

As mentioned 100% R^L Mk7 and deffo fired from a Bren

**sdesic** · 09-22-2013, 01:42 PM

Thank you.
What is this thing in middle ? Where firing pin goes.

**m3bobby** · 09-22-2013, 01:46 PM

The Bren firing pin is rectangular hence the shape, it has either been pushed out again by corrosion or possibly when it was fired suggesting unserviceable breech block.