303 brit ammo boxer primed????

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Hi all is it possible that some DI made ammo from wwII was boxer primed? The only reason i ask this is that i was looking down the neck of some 1943 and 44 di casings after firing them and i saw what appear to be a single flash hole, so i decided to knock out a primer and sure enough just one hole. Is this a fluke or are are these casing possibly reloadable?

thanks for the imput

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Any of it that was made on this side of the pond should be boxer primed. Likely corrosive though so make sure you clean your barrel out with hot water to desolve the salts.

Take Care

Bob
 
The Defence Industries .303" and other production was all Boxer primed ,noncorrosive and is good brass for reloading. The pockets need to be reamed to remove the crimp.
 
oh crap i just threw a pile of this away, i hope they don't change the garbage at the range t'ill i get back tomorrow....:(
 
Boxer priming was a european invention and Berdan was a US invention......funny how the oposites adopted it..
 
Di - 43

I have some that I've been reloading for years.
It's started to wear out now, and I'm getting more splits, but I've got about fifteen light cast loads with them.
Pretty good stuff, but you may have to ream out the primer pockets.
 
Try to neck size .303 military brass only if possible, full length resizing minimizes the amount of reloads that you will get out each piece of .303 brass, particularly if you try to duplicate military loads.
 
I have DI brass that has been through my 1910 Ross 15 times and still doesn't need to be trimmed.

The .303 round is sensitive to rim thickness, as this is how the headspacing was controlled. The DI brass has rims that are all very, very close to the maximum spec, making it excellent for reloading.

My opinion is that the DI brass was likely the best reloading brass ever made for the .303.

And, yeah, it was all noncorrosive, nonmercuric, Boxer primed..... and Made In Canada to boot.
 
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