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Old April 16, 2014, 01:49 PM   #1
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Samco has .303 Ammo

Is this stuff any good?

I talked to a couple of all ready and they said to stay away from this stuff:

a lot of "click-bangs"

https://samcoglobal.com/Ammo-303.html
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Old April 16, 2014, 03:49 PM   #2
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BLEACH!
*spit*
avoid, warning, warning, danger young Will Robinson.
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Old April 16, 2014, 04:07 PM   #3
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Run Forest - RUN!!!!

Although if ya needs some bullets to reload this is one way to get them.
Lot of hang fires and no Booms.
Scarey stuff
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Old April 16, 2014, 07:01 PM   #4
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For that price and a little more you can buy PRVI which is good stuff and reloadable.
Stay away from their Iranian 8mm ammo as well, unless you enjoy the excitement of hang fires and misfires.

I have not seen good surplus 303 ammo in years.
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Old April 16, 2014, 09:32 PM   #5
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The ammo advertised is made at the Pakistan Ordnance Factory, and is dismally unreliable.

The two guys that own Samco are Pakistanis, and I guess they have some connections in the Middle East.
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Old April 17, 2014, 03:14 AM   #6
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Too bad that the owners are not Indian. Indians might have access to actual Brit. or Aussie .303.
In spring of '09, Samco was the last distributor to sell surplus .303 in bulk.
It was mfg. in England, because the case heads on mine say "England '42 (or '43)".

Samco sold it for .20/rd., then in late April or May, suddenly they had no more-for a long time.
A few tiny amounts were seen somewhere about one or two years later, but at much higher prices.
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Old April 17, 2014, 07:49 AM   #7
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the case heads on mine say "England '42 (or '43)
I've never heard of such a head-stamp, can you post a pic?

From one of the better head stamp ID sites alphabetically D~F

DWM
Deutsche Waffen Und Munitionsfabrik, Karlsruhe, Germany produced both ball and blank .303 cartridges.

E or EB
Eley Brothers, Edmonton, London, UK. Factory in operation 1828 - 1919. During WW1 Eley produced in excess of 209 Million .303 Mk 7 cartridges. Eley Brothers produced cartridges in... Armour Piercing Mk VII.W
Ball, Cordite Mks 1, 2, 4, 6 and 7
Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mk 7Z
Ball, Short Range Practice (Gaudet)
Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Ballistite Mk 1
Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Ballistite H Mk 1Z
Drill, Mk 3, Drill Mk 3 Expedient
Explosive Pomeroy Mk 1, PSA Mk 1, PSA (VII.A) MK 1
PSA Mk 2 and PSA (VII.AA) Mk 2
Incendiary BIK (VII.K) Mk 1
RL Tracer Mk 1, Tracer SPK Mk VII.T and SPG (VII.G) Mk 1Z

E (reversed) or unstamped
Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan. Fabricated nitro-cellulose loaded Imperial Japanese Navy Year Type 92 Machine Gun Ammunition, which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge in... Armour Piercing, Ball, Incendiary- [Phosphorus filling] & Tracer

F or AF or SAAF
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