What has become of the 7.62 clipped with the C1 long gone ? Seems kind of strange to hold stocks of ammo for a rifle that is gone out of service.
There are still many pallets of it in storage at 3rd line depots across the country.
There is no system in place to destroy obsolete small arms ammunition currently. They won't let us blow it up anymore. They shut us down on using our blast furnaces to smelt it as we did in days past. So it just sits in cold storage until we either find a semi less sketchy international buyer for it or until DAEME 6 can figure out how to dispose of it properly and not piss off David Suzuki in the process or something....
There are gads of it still around at 2nd and 3rd line facilities in cold storage from coast to coast. I have seen it and handled it personally in at least two locations.
There are also some C1's still in vaults. I know of one personally and have fired it as recently as this year. It's being used for a legitimate purpose as well and still gets annual service inspection. I won't say more than that on here though lol
There is also mountains of pallets of newly manufactured IVI produced .303 British Ball FMJ Tailor made Lee Enfield ammo as old as 90's production and as recent production as 2010 and older in stock in many locations. This is what DND had IVI producing under contract to supply the rangers with for trg ammunition for the Lee Enfields up until at least 2 years ago.
The Rangers will now be using the .308 Win Sakko Tikka if they are not already being phased in as I type this.
I have this info direct from a high ranking ATO at a division position that DND will likely be handing all this remaining .303 ammo over to the Rangers......not offering it to current full reg force serving military members who have valid PALs....just handing it over to the Rangers. How's that for a great idea eh?
Talk about a kick in the face. F**king bureaucrats.
That being said now though, they are using 7.62mm chambered Sakko rifles now. I would not be surprised to see the log guides for the old C21 clipped packs being added to trg allocations for Ranger battalions once again in the near future for practice ammo. Better that than blowing it up or selling it to some sketchy UAE ####hole that made it onto the "sometimes acceptable" friendly nation sell list that month I suppose.
