Greek .303 Brit ammo value

[JBinIll]

Here's some photos... So is 75 the year or batch?

That's the year,good stuff for shooting.

[Art]

Here's some photos... So is 75 the year or batch?

Dang!! Clips in bandoleers, sweet find. 75 is the year of manufacture.

[JBinIll]

Dang!! Clips in bandoleers, sweet find. 75 is the year of manufacture.

When that came in it was cheap to.I did have about 3000 rds until a fellow named Charley Glick stole all my ammo stored in my shop building.

[Johan412th]

Yes, and all my brass and stripper clips are getting kept.

[Art]

Yes, and all my brass and stripper clips are getting kept.

With .303 stripper clips selling for as much as $2.00 each I certainly hope so!! Those bandoleers usually go for a buck or two as well. The Brit stripper clips are extremely robust and while it is possible to wear one out it takes a while to do it. You've got close to $300.00 worth of bonus goodies there not counting the cans and the crate.

There are sites that show how to reload the clips. I use the "three down, two up" method myself and it works very well.

[Johan412th]

Yes the friend that have them to me told me there's a special way to do it. They work great! Best stripper clips I've ever used!

[JB White]

OK guys it's time to nitpick here. I know we as Americans call them stripper clips, but on an Enfield forum they are chargers.

[Johan412th]

OK guys it's time to nitpick here. I know we as Americans call them stripper clips, but on an Enfield forum they are chargers.

Oh, shame on me, I knew that. Point, JB!

[Art]

Either is correct. In the U.K. the thing that covers the engine of a car is the bonnet, here it's the hood.

I think charger is less ambiguous though. A "charger/stripper clip" isn't inserted into the magazine with the cartridges while a "clip" (Mannlicher, M1 rifle) is. On Johan412ths ammunition the American term is used; "clips" in bandoleers.

[Johan412th]

Either is correct. In the U.K. the thing that covers the engine of a car is the bonnet, here it's the hood.

I think charger is less ambiguous though. A "charger/stripper clip" isn't inserted into the magazine with the cartridges while a "clip" (Mannlicher, M1 rifle) is. On Johan412ths ammunition the American term is used; "clips" in bandoleers.

Perhaps I have been vindicated?

[JBinIll]

Perhaps I have been vindicated?

LOL Indeed!Swings and roundabouts as the Brits say.

[JB White]

But it's HXP...so it's all Greek to me.

[Johan412th]

I swear this is my favorite forum... So what does the hxp stand for?

[JBinIll]

I swear this is my favorite forum... So what does the hxp stand for?

It doesn't translate well- Ελληνικα Αμυντικα Συστηματα

[Johan412th]

It doesn't translate well- Ελληνικα Αμυντικα Συστηματα

You don't say. "It's like all those buttons on a calculator you don't use!"

So, the question is, why did they keep producing the ammo for so long? I would assume that their British weaponry was replaced with American weaponry later into and after the civil war, so why keep using the .303 Brit?