.303 Round Idenfitication

[gyates93]

I've purchased a lot of mixed .303 ammunition - some surplus and some commercial. There's really a mix here, Canadian/Greek boxer primed, some berdan primed, kynoch, and dominion. There are about 5 of the rounds indicated below which are the most interesting - a round nose with exposed lead, what looks to be a broad arrow stamp and charged with cordite? Are these nickel jacketed rounds military soft point loads? They look to have older Berdan primers.

If any of the experts could provide a date and type this would be excellent! They look a lot like the MK6 load or 'dum dum' load to me compared to normal commercial ammunition.

 

[tiriaq]

This was ball remanufactured for commercial sale after WWI. Tip of jacket cut off, lead core reformed to round nose.
DON"T SHOOT IT. The jacket is a tube; should the core blow through, the jacket could be left in the bore, an obstruction for the next shot.

 

[jmichelin84]

As the poster above said, don't shoot Its collect it, it's reman surplus for civilian uses

 

[gyates93]

As it's easily the oldest .303 ammunition that I have, I'm not that interested in shooting it. The lead tips look surprisingly uniform for converted military bullets. I have some more that are MK7 rounds that somebody obviously cut with side cutters to make a soft point. They are nowhere near uniform and they will likely be pulled and a new MK7 bullet pressed in place, and the old bullets thrown in the garbage.

Am I correct in saying that this is a Canadian MK 6 round, loaded with cordite?