.303 Blank Ammo
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BlackPowderBurner
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- the chesterfield
Nice thing is those are long blanks so they function perfectly in bolt action rifles. Value to someone who would fire them, maybe 35cpr?
buzzmagoo
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If it Exist than it was made for field usage .there must be some stamps/ marketings on it somewhere . The head stamps on the blanks should have markings / date IVI or something . If the blanks are original to the Bandolier they sould all be closely dated or the same . The same for the chargers/clips markings stamps should be similar . If there are big variations /miss match the bandolier has been repacked with what ever was handy . If the blanks are of the long type they are most likely were for auto fire arms( Vickers or brens guns) standard rifle blanks were usly crimped Ordinary recycled standard cases with a star crimp . As with any 303 ammo there numerous variations and head stamps. Researching is some times more interesting part of collecting .
They are probably commercial blanks - FN made long ones (fairly feeble too) many years ago and more recently PPU in Yugoslavia have made them for re-enactment and the movie industry. British service blanks are usually 'shorts' made from standard cases.
Yes. Likely made by Atlantic Wall Blanks. These are their "Red Tip." For theatrical/reenacting but they are full power with huge flash and loud! Never for indoor.
Someone likely just put them on the clips and in the bandolier.
Someone likely just put them on the clips and in the bandolier.
That isn't a belt its a bandoleer. Ammo was clipped up, put in bandoleers, then packed in 30cal cans or maybe even spamcans in wooden boxes and sent to the front. The bandoleer made it easy to grab 50 rounds at a time in the case of 303 brit stuff and bugger off to repack your clip pouches. Also if you knew you were going into combat, lots of times soldiers would carry full clip pouches plus 1-5 bandoleers extra. The other thing bandoleers were useful for was sending one or 2 people back from the line and having them loop as many bandoleers as they could stand over their shoulders and bring ammo back for the squad while keeping their arms free to use their rifle if they had to. You do have blanks and they dont appear to be the style used to launch grenades during WWII which were star crimped with 6 petals instead of the 4 I see in your pic. The grenade launching blanks also were more blunt and round looking at the tip.
Forty4Forty
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The blanks where also used for launching grenades.
Nope those are just blanks, the "grenade discharger" ballistic cartrudges are NOT crimped as you want ALL the energy to push the grenade out of the Burns Cup and send it happily on the way downrange. The Grenade Discharger rounds are uncrimped and just have a sealed end so energy is not wasted at time of firing "uncrimping". Pre 1957 the head stamp for Grenade rounds will have an H and blanks should have an L. I suspect the head stamp for the OP blanks would read RG 50 VIII L or similar if Radway Green manufacture.
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About $1 per shot give or take. Yea, those are high end red tips from Atlantic Wall, made by PPU. Loud and produce large fireballs. Red tips are full length blanks so there are less issues with feeding, especially in automatic weapons. Most of us use those during reenactment events.
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