Dummy Rounds
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An author of detective stories and the author of stories about jungles, snakes and mongooses were in South Africa during the Boar wars. As the story goes it did not go well for the British, the two authors knew England was not going to do anything about their 303 rifle so the two authors started a program that improved the soldiers ability to aim it.
The Dutch were using Mausers chambered to 7MM57; because the British could not beat the farmers nearby (neighbor) they passed laws making it illegal to ship Mausers to the Orange Free State.
And the question is never asked about who trained the farmers to shoot. We all know they had to be able to see.
F. Guffey
The Dutch were using Mausers chambered to 7MM57; because the British could not beat the farmers nearby (neighbor) they passed laws making it illegal to ship Mausers to the Orange Free State.
And the question is never asked about who trained the farmers to shoot. We all know they had to be able to see.
F. Guffey
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JeepHammer said:
It's unlikely the word "dummy" sounds official enough for military nomenclature, but its' use is still pretty wide-spread. Here's the Wikipedia entry. Brownells uses it in quotation marks to describe their line of plastic training cartridges. The NRA training supplies catalog uses the term. There is even a site called "dummybullet.com" devoted to dummy cartridges (despite the name; which doesn't speak well to the owner's terminology acumen). However, the term is not in SAAMI's glossary, so I doubt it sees much official use. It's probably too easy to confuse with live ammunition intended for shooting up mannequins.
There were boxes that were identified as being dummies.
http://cartridgecollectors.org/?page=introduction-to-30-06-cartridges
F. Guffey
http://cartridgecollectors.org/?page=introduction-to-30-06-cartridges
F. Guffey
http://cartridgecollectors.org/?page...-06-cartridges
And listed in the list of collectable cartridges: Ammo for the Hollifield Darter.
F. Guffey
And listed in the list of collectable cartridges: Ammo for the Hollifield Darter.
F. Guffey
Snap caps for straight wall cartridges are easily made.
Go to a hardware store and buy some nylon screws about the diameter of the primer pocket and no longer than the cartridge case. Drill and tap the primer pocket to proper dimensions to fit your screw. Screw the nylon screw into the case from the mouth so that the bottom of the screw is protruding from the primer pocket and flush with the head of the case. You now have a snap cap.
Go to a hardware store and buy some nylon screws about the diameter of the primer pocket and no longer than the cartridge case. Drill and tap the primer pocket to proper dimensions to fit your screw. Screw the nylon screw into the case from the mouth so that the bottom of the screw is protruding from the primer pocket and flush with the head of the case. You now have a snap cap.