Pakistani .303 brit

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I watched a Youtube video posting by an Australian guy in 2006 and in it he was shooting his Lee enfield and he says hes shooting pakistani made ammo.

Anyone hear of pakistani .303 brit or what it would cost to import it??

vid:

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Power Pill said:
I watched a Youtube video posting by an Australian guy in 2006 and in it he was shooting his Lee enfield and he says hes shooting pakistani made ammo.

Anyone hear of pakistani .303 brit or what it would cost to import it??

vid:

w ww.youtube.com/watch?v=lzTJogE4Rio&feature=related
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Yes, I've seen POF ammo at gun shows. It has a rep for unreliability and hangfires.

Since I didn't want it I can't report on how it actually works...:redface:
 
From what i heard it is not desired due to it being corrosive, poor quality, poorly stored in damp conditions causing misfires, hang fires, and other firing buggaboos. It goes for dirt cheap for a reason.
 
Power Pill said:
I watched a Youtube video posting by an Australian guy in 2006 and in it he was shooting his Lee enfield and he says hes shooting pakistani made ammo.

Anyone hear of pakistani .303 brit or what it would cost to import it??

vid:

w ww.youtube.com/watch?v=lzTJogE4Rio&feature=related
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It sounds as though you are asking if there is still a supply left to import.
I cant be sure, but I strongly suspect that it has long ago been swallowed up by the huge US civilian market.

BTW, you are allowed to hotlink to Youtube videos, as they are not selling stuff directly.
 
If I recall correctly, you're talking about the video by "jollygreen-whatever"...he has 2-3 hangfires when going through just one magazine. If it was .20/round I still wouldn't buy it, if that's an accurate representation of it's reliability.
 
I've seen and heard of this ammo, it's nasty stuff. Cheap possibly, but very corrosive and poorly made. I asked at Wortner's Gun Works recently about surplus British/Canadian .303 ammo, and they say that the surpuls for .303 has pretty much dried up. what's the view on that from you fellows?
 
I bought 50 rounds of the Pakistani stuff in Kamloops this spring. It all went bang, no misfires or hang fires. It wasn't accurate at all but it looked like it was new. The seller warned me it was good for components only and sold the whole lot on a mixed batch of charger clips for $15. He was right, It was good for components only.

I haven't seen any more of this stuff but wouldn't touch it if I did. The pulled bullets were quite accurate though and weighed out to 174grains.
 
The 303 British ammo and the Lee-Enfield is a common "house gun" in Afghanistan. The effective use of the pakistani ammo in those gun against foreign "infidels", since the Soviet invation in 1979, somewhat disprove the claims that the pakistani ammo is inferior to other 303 British made ammo.

I know that canadian troops in Afghanistan's Hellmans Province have a healty respect for this "old pakistani, 303 British ammo", in the hands of the Taliban fighters.
 
Saw some at the Carp (Ont.) gun show this weekend. It was being sold in plastic bags of 20 rounds for 18.00 - waaaay to expensive. Headstamp was POF with a date (99) and I'm pretty sure Mk 7.
Passed on that but did get a 48 round box of DA Mk 7 1945 for 25.00.
 
snowhunter, I kid you not. That stuff was very inconsistant. The best it would shoot was 8 inches at 100 yards and that was out of a POF No4 MkII. That same rifle shoots all of the commercial offerings into 3 inches at most and usually under 2 inches. It shoots Greek and South African ball into 3 inches or less as well. It was also stamped POF but the numbers on mine were 72 not 99.

I don't know the conditions the cartridges were stored under nor the reason they were sold off for surplus. I am guessing that accuracy may be the reason. As stated above, there weren't any issues with malfunctioning, just accuracy. The same can be said of some Turkish surplus aquired at the same table. It all went bang but the bullets had a mind of their own as to where they would hit the targets.

As stated as well the pulled bullets shot quite well when reloaded into other cases with different powder and primers. As stated previously by someone else they are corrosive primed. I can't say for sure, I always clean immediately after using surplus anyway.
 
I find it odd that in an area of the world in which a demand of ammo must be high for existing battle rifles, including the 303 British, that this ammo is sold as surplus over here ?
 
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