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Wolf’s website claims a %100 guarantee on their ammo including return shipping. I recently bought some .303 that keyholes terribly. Has anyone taken advantage of this guarantee in Canada?
 
Yeah at only 25 yards I got perfect sillouhettes of the bullet. I took calipers to 10 of them and they came back .3705 to .3085 I was thinking of pulling them and reloading with .303 but for the price of the reloading equipment plus what I already paid for the ammo I could go buy PPU

Only thing is they are located in California so I don’t know how the return would work I bought them from Canada ammo but the 14 day return period has lapsed
 
I've fired Wolf .303 through my No.1 Mk.III and No.4 Mk.I*. The No.1 has no issues whatsoever with the cheap Russian ammunition, whereas the two-grooved No.4 keyholes it every time.
 
I really hope my No.4 Mk.1 is fine, Wednesday I’m taking it to the range with Greek HXP, Federak Powershok, and S+B to make sure the rifles is fine. I took calipers to about 10 rounds and they all came out to .308, so Wolf is purposefully using undersized bullets. I sent an email to Canada Ammo to see what can be done as they wolf customer service number doesn’t work from Canada.
 
No wonder these bullets don’t work. The little bulge near the base is the only part of the bullet that is .310 inches in diameter. The rest of the bullet is .308 or smaller

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They're also boat tailed, which explains some of the keyholes, in addition to being undersized.

Basically, if you've got a tight barrel you might be able to use Wolf .303 with no issues (and it's the cheapest .303 around, so that's a bonus). If she's a bit worn, then you may have to work with the keyholes.
 
Yeah I think it almost luck of the draw. I think the really small surface area for the rifling to grip coupled with the boat tail, and undersized bullets leads to problems.
 
Well - Those are steel cased, bimetal jacketed bullets. I assume the bimetal jacket is copper wash over mild steel. Diameter issues notwithstanding, I don't imagine they obdurate into the bore very well. 2 groove LE's typically have a larger free diameter compared to multi-groove barrels, I'm not surprised with the stated result.
 
The plot thickens. Bought some PPU FMJBT, about 70% of them keyholed as well. I also shot some S+B and Greek surplus, neither of which keyholed
 
Mk. VII standard .303 was a flat based 174 grain bullet. As you've already mentioned, it is a .312 diameter bullet as well.

Shooting a boat tail projectile out of an Lee-Enfield has the possibility of it not fully engaging the rifling, due to the somewhat reduced surface area (taper) of the BT, which can cause keyholes.

Now, you can use boat tail ammo in a Lee-Enfield and have good results, but it seems to be a luck of the draw sort of thing. If you've got a tight barrel, odds are you'll do fine. Two groove No.4s, not as much...
 
I've owned some problematic rifles in .303B before and the only way to get ammo to work reliably was to reload. I could purposely buy .312" bullets and knew they would work (except in the one rifle I had with a .317" bore). Even from the same ammo manufacturer, diameters vary. I remember Remington FMJ ammo keyholing and it turned out they used a .310" bullets yet their soft point shot great and used a larger diameter. Many milsurp Lee Enfields have barrels well past their intended service life and are worn more than the military would have considered them serviceable.

I had a post-war 2-groove rifle that slugged .3095" in the grooves and would shoot .308" boat-tail bullets all day as accurately as I was able with iron sights. Most of mine were 5-groove and would only shoot .311" or .312" reliably and the aforementioned .317" rifle could only shoot grossly oversized cast bullets.

Best bet is to slug your bore with a lead round-ball and measure it with a micrometer. That'll tell you way more than shooting random factory ammo will. I've found most Lee Enfield's around to be around .313"-.314" groove-diameter. They'll shoot .312" flat-base jacketed bullets and .314" cast bullets well but that's about it.
 
yes, when my dad first passed along his no1 mk3 to me i was looking at this ammo. did some youtube searches and found out the price was too good to be true. seems to be universally terrible.
 
I pulled the bullets out of a box of these and replaced them with .311 flat bottom SP. Zero problems today at the range with the same gun. Grouped surprisingly well too.
The factory bullets in this ammo are pure garbage. All measured .308 and the boat tail is atrocious. What were they thinking?
Powder charge was surprisingly consistent though, all weighed 38.1-38.2 grain. Probably would have been good stuff with proper projectiles.
OP - did you ever hear back from CanAm? I’ve got 8 boxes of this crap...
 
They were willing to give me a store credit which was generous since I bought it two months ago.

The boat tail on them is horrible, the rifling if it could even grip a .308 round properly has almost no area on the round to grab
 
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