Short 303 round ?

In the REAL Old Days, some Lee-Enfields were converted to handle the .297/.230 Morris cartridges, the Short with its 3 grain charge and the Long with 5 grains of Black, lead bullets.

.22" conversions rather abound..... until you are looking for one at an affordable price.

There also was the .310 Cadet cartridge, notably used in Australia in Martinis.

I know that, at one time, there WAS a short, straight-cased .303 trainer round but I have never seen a rifle for one.

And there was the .303" Adaptor, which was meant to be fired through special Adaptors in a regular rifle. It is possible that a few rifles were made to handle it on its lonesome.

Can you post photos?

I think this is one that we all would like to see.
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Check the calibre at the muzzle...it might be a Pattern 18 trainer with a .22 bore. The Patt: 18 will take a regular round up to about the last 3/8 of an inch. If a Patt: 18 it will also have an ejector lever about 2 inches long on the left side of the receiver wall.
Nice find if a Patt: 18...
 
Great minds think alike Warren!

I was going to post a picture of the Pattern 1918 adaptor which has a lower shoulder to prevent a normal .303 inch round being chambered, but it seems I do not have enough posts to add attachments.

Regards
Tonye
 
TonyE said:
Great minds think alike Warren!

I was going to post a picture of the Pattern 1918 adaptor which has a lower shoulder to prevent a normal .303 inch round being chambered, but it seems I do not have enough posts to add attachments.

Regards
Tonye
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Tony: If you like, I can post a picture of one of my .22 conveyors for the Patt: 18, along with the one for the Lewis .22 and the Vickers .22

I hear everyone had a great time at Bisley on Saturday with the "great unwashed".
 
Yes, but the original post said it was a training rifle, so presumably not .303 inch.

Warren, yes please if you can post the pictures.

Regards
TonyE
 
Could this be a japanese built rifle for the brits? Japan made them in 6.5x50 but I can't remember the British designarion.
 
The Japanese Arisakas rifles taken into British service in WWI were not actually built for Britain but were simply regular Japanese rifles sold as surplus.

They were Type 30 rifles and Type 38 rifles and carbines known as Pattern 1900 and Pattern 1907 respectively by the British.

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Regards
TonyE
 
I'm Tony Edwards and you can contact me at
aoe303 (at) btconnect (dot) com for details.

Thanks for the interest,
Regards
TonyE
 
TonyE,

You can post pics from day 1 you register here.
You have to use a hosting site such as Photobucket to attach pictures to threads on this forum. There's also a tutorial on how to post pics.
Glad you show up here.
 
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