Price Check 303 surplus

Kool thanks ...

Update : hes got a No2 Mk4 for 200$ but bubba got to it... he dosent have original wood but its in a nice cheek rest stock, but it has the original matching baseplate...

Might buy it all tomorow. will keep you posted...


Ian
 
Boy, we are lucky south of the border (The US...not THAT far south....). I have access to good surplus .303 for .50C a round (although the supply is running out), and I did pick up 538 rounds for $275 - 250 rounds on the cloth machine gun belt and the rest still sealed in the original inner metal box and outer crate. Both boxes came in a steel outer box designed to carry two of the wooden crates and dated 1944, so I have a handy storage medium too.
 
angrysoldier said:
jump on it. i have 50 round of fn made 303 ball and was offered 90 dollars for it and i dident sell it. that is a nice deal.
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Where are you finding guys willing to pay that much? Thats almost 2 bucks a round! If someone offered me 2 bucks a round I would sell every single fn ball round I had!
 
Paying more than 70 cents a round for surplus 303 Brit, just to shoot is silly. There are commercial brands out there that are reloadable for $20/box. To top it off, they aren't corrosive. Unless it's going to be used for display or collecting purposes why take the chance with surplus. Some of that stuff looks like the day it was made, especially the way it was sometimes packaged for long term storage. That still didn't stop some of the primers from deteriorating. You just don't know the condition the ammunition was stored under after being sold out of service.

Quit looking for it in Canada. If you happen to stumble onto some fine. I recently picked up a sealed can of 480 rounds of RG 1950 dated ammunition at a garage sale. It was cheap. $50can. The fellow bought it from Lever for $10 in the early seventies and thought he was making a killing. If he hadn't been such an ass, I would have told him about his folly. Basically he was calling me a fool for paying that much for bullets you can't even use for hunting.

Privi, and a couple of others in Europe sell their ammunition in small bulk pouches of 100 for around a buck/round. Why bother with anything else? If you want better brass for reloading, bite the bullet and buy REm/Win/Hornady/Fed/Norma.

Unless you can get surplus for around 50 cents/ round, it just isn't worth it IMHO. The czhec offerings in 7.62x39 are an awesome deal. It won't last forever though so stock up. Look at how the cost of 7.62x25 has gone up 2 years, when you can get it.
 
bearhunter said:
Paying more than 70 cents a round for surplus 303 Brit, just to shoot is silly. There are commercial brands out there that are reloadable for $20/box. To top it off, they aren't corrosive.

Unless you can get surplus for around 50 cents/ round, it just isn't worth it IMHO. The czhec offerings in 7.62x39 are an awesome deal. It won't last forever though so stock up. Look at how the cost of 7.62x25 has gone up 2 years, when you can get it.
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i picked up 60 rounds of .303 for 30 bucks one box is soft spear tip whinchester and the other 2 boxes are military rounds with fmj removed and soft round point put on used by the rangers in nfld from what i was told
 
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leadhead36 said:
i picked up 60 rounds of .303 for 30 bucks one box is soft spear tip whinchester and the other 2 boxes are military rounds with fmj removed and soft round point put on used by the rangers in nfld from what i was told
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the Rangers up where I lived just seated the ball backwards and shot the moose square in the chest. drops them quickly.

I've never tired it, and doubt they'd be very accurate past 75 yds, but in the bush where the shot is under 30yds... probably quite effective
 
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