Mystery Bag of ammo in the shed

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Hey all, was reading through the milsurp forum when I recalled seeing an old bag of ammo in my shed a couple years ago. I went out to find it and took some pictures and uploaded them to Imgur.

Here is the link to the album: Link
Looks like:

22 Hornet
250 Sav
243 Win
303 Sav
6.5 54ms(2 of them say that one is simply marked 6.5)
7mm
270 win
30 rem
300 Sav
30-30
308? looks milsurp has da and a cross and date
300 mag * I think this is 300 H&H Magnum
38-55
30 usa? I think this is 30-40 krag
30-06
303 british, some surp in there methinks
308 norma
8x57js norma
35 rem
32 spl
38 S&W spl
45acp
410 guage
20 guage
12 guage

Lots of Dominion and CIL stamps kicking around in there.

* Added some closeup shots of the head stamps on the military 303 British ammo.
 
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The DA with the circle cross is Dominion Arsenal (Canadian) 7.62x51mm. The circle cross is the NATO acceptance stamp.
 
Thanks I've been looking at the 303 british surplus and it looks like mark II ammo, with cordite, one is "RL Royal Laboratory, Woolwich Arsenal, Kent, UNITED KINGDOM" the other is "K Kynoch & Co., Witton, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM" from what I've read these were in production between 1893 - 1904. The other 303 is marked "BPD Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome, ITALY" 40(1940), It looks like it has a soft point bullet which seems kinda weird to me. There is another one that look surplus, it's head stamp is D.C.Co(Dominion) it has what looks like a spitzer bullet and .303 L-M, not sure what the L-M means.
 
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L-M is Lee-Metford, precursor to the Lee-Enfield. Likely loaded with a 215-grain RN bullet at about 1960 ft/sc.

The BPD softpoint will be Italian WW2 ammo rebulleted for sale as sporting ammo. A fair bit of this came in back in the '60s. Italy used a LOT of Lewis and Vickers Guns they got from us in War One, turned them around in 1940.

Not very sporting, what?
 
.303 L-M was the DCCo hs cal designation for .303" British to c1930.
1915 DCCo catalogue lists ammo with that hs loaded with:
215 gr FMJ
215 gr SP
202 gr FMJ Spitzer Target
115 gr LFP
Also listed 180 gr "MkVII" with DC15 VII hs

Have also saw this hs with Copper Point Spitzer
 
I never find ammo much just the guns. Twice now I have found rifles left in houses hidden behind cupboards and such. Did find some 25 rimfire here sill in the box plus the rifle.
 
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