Market for original military .303 ammo?

get yourself a lee loader kit. going to save money in the long run. If you are lucky pick up some cheap ammo at a show but from what i keep reading you are not going to find it on a regular basis
 
303 Ammo

I still have a couple of Sardine cans full of 303 ammo and don't plan on selling it. I don't think ammo is going to be cheap in the future. I saw a short news segment in the US, they were saying that ammo was starting to climb in price because of the shortage of brass copper and lead.
There is a fair amount of 7.62X39 around and one should buy it up now because it may not be as easy to get in the future. I never sell ammo and it will keep if properly stored.
 
the hand loader kits for lee's aren't expensive. i end up paying .50$ per bullet i fire. a lot less than a dollar a round.
 
Most of the army surplus .303 my dad has is hopelessly innaccurate. I spent hours trying to sight in my dad's sporterized .303 only to discover this. I put in some old imperial saber tips and voila!... tight bullseyes at 100 yards!

Same crap with some surplus 7.62x54r ammo in my mosin nagant. Had to put the sights to 400M to shoot at 50m!

Give me new ammo and none of that old war stuff!


Surplus ammo sucks rocks.
 
You guys are driving up the wall here.
All this talk about shooting 1940's era 303 ammo.
I got a variety of 303 dating back to 1907...a couple of dum-dum rounds, some match ammo, tracer, and drill rounds.
I just can't bring myself to shooting the stuff.
Any 1940's ammo I find goes in the pile to keep...that UMC stuff sounds good enough to shoot for me.
Cheers
 
Saving ammo is like saving firewood until it rots. It doesn't get better with age (unless your a military collector) it eventually goes funky and you get weird and UNSAFE RESULTS. Hangfires are dangerous. Shoot it while you can or commit it to a museum.
 
"...a lot of surplus WW2 303 ammo showing up, Stateside,...hang fires..." Indian and Pakistani. Their 7.62 is unreliable too.
"...All this talk about shooting 1940's era 303 ammo..." The absolute best .303 ball ammo I've ever shot was 1944 vintage DA Mk VIII. Issued to my Cadet Corps in the early 80's for a range day. Once. After that we got '85 vintage IVI. It didn't come close to the accuracy of the 44 or so year old DA ammo.
You're right about the UMC, even though it's not quite the same. The DA stuff was truly astoundingly accurate out of well maintained No. 4's.
The CF destroyed the really good DA ammo. And the rifles.
 
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A guy at the local show had 70 rds per bandolier, I believe. At $10 per bandoleir my friend and I bought several. I remember these very same bandoleirs at $9.99 back in 92 being sold at Le Baron's. My team bought thousands of rds., and had a lot of fun in the evenings at Connaught Ranges. We all owned Lee Enfields.
 
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