The .300 Remington Ultra Magnum made its debut in 1999, followed by the 7mm Remington Ultra Magnum and in 2002 the .338 & .375 Remington Ultra Magnum were introduced. The Remington Ultra Magnums, joined an increasingly popular trend toward beltless,...
Cartridges
300 ROOK (295) 1.16″
Popular rook and rabbit cartridge in England.
300 ROOK TARGET
Introduced in 1902, this is the 300 Rook cartridge designed for "mid-range" target shooting. It has a longer bullet with external cannelures for lubrication. It was felt at the time that the 80gr. bullet of the 300 Rook cartridge was too light for distance...
300 RUGER COMPACT MAGNUM
300 SAVAGE
300 SHERWOOD
Probably from around 1904-05 and listed in the 1909 catalogue, it was developed by Westley Richards for use in single shot target rifles. The above specimen is a South African loaded round by R.E.S. It was probably made in the late 1970’s to early 1980’s...
300 STYRIA MAGNUM
The 300 Styria Magnum was introduced in 2005 by Ing. Michael W. Mayerl from the Styria Arms company in Austria. The parent case is the 8x68S that was shortened to 2.559" necked down to 308 caliber withou changeing the shoulder angle.
300 WEATHERBY MAGNUM
Speer
300 WHISPER
The AAC 83 headstamp in 5.56x45 and 7.62x51 was a made by Igman of Yugoslavia for Nordac Manufacturing Corp. (NMC) in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and the initials stand for "American Armaments Corporation". This was a deceiving contract intended for El Salvador. D B on...
300 WINCHESTER MAGNUM
PROOF Case looks like a darkened copper cladding. Might be a PROOF LOAD ...
300 WINCHESTER SHORT MAGNUM
300/250 ROOK
Relatively uncommon, this is the .300 or .295 Rook rifle shortened and necked down to .250''
300R PRITZ
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301 SAVAGE
302 WHISPER
303 ADAPTOR KELLY-ANDREWS
This is the single lip version. The adaptor case has a slit down the neck into the shoulder with a right-angle notch so that the cartridge could be pushed into the case mouth and lip on the head indexed into the notch to hold it in place against the firing pin body.
303 ADAPTOR SIMPLEX (MULLINEUX PATENT)
303 ADAPTOR WILKINSON PRACTICE
Cartridge has a reverese bevelled rim that was fitted into the adapter case from the rear and was held in place at the shoulder. See also Fleming p. 140
303 ASKINS BOURKE EXPRESS
303 BRITISH – COMMONWEALTH ex RSA
2023-01 - testing formats on this page, setup will change over time. Sources: Edwards A.O., (2011) Headstamp Guide: .303 inch British Service Ammunition. Solo Publications. ISBN 978-0-9568528-0-9 MacDonald C.R., (1995) Canada and the .303 British, 1892 – 1992....
303 BRITISH – ENGLAND
HISTORY In J.R.R Tolkien’s book The Lord of the Rings, there is a chapter where the Hobbits meet Treebeard. Pippin, one of the Hobbits mentions a hill and Treebeard responds by saying that it is a hasty word for something that has stood there for such a long time....
303 BRITISH – OTHER COUNTRIES
CZECHOSLOVAKIA / CZECH REPUBLIC With the fall of communism, the country of Czechoslovakia split in two, with the Slovak Republic adopting their own flag, whereas the Czech Republic retained the original flag adopted in 1920. ...
303 BRITISH – SPORTING
Updated December 2022 The 303 British sporting loads are listed in Fleming, so I will list some of my sporting cartridges here as well. The 303 BRITISH is a collection all by itself with many hundreds of different specimens. The focus for this page is only BRITISH...
303 CUM .22 PARKER-HALE
Consists of a steel auxiliary device with a removing breech plug with a spring loaded pin on the side which matches a hole near the head when in place. The front face has a rim firing pin for the .22 LR ammunition used. Smooth bored to the muzzle and was used for...
303 CUM .22 VICKERS
Steel adaptor for the Vickers machine gun with the .22 rimfire chamber drilled off-center so that the centerfire firing pin strikes the rimfire base.
303 EPPS
303 FRASER FLANGED
This is the 303 British loaded with the Fraser oblique ratchet bullet
303 FRASER RIMLESS
Developed by Daniel Fraser, gunsmith in Edinburgh, this is a rimless version of the 303 British.
303 MAGNUM RIMLESS
The following is an article by John Pople-Crump in the June 1997 issue of the ECRA newsletter 385-25/ From lohn Pople-Crump (G.B.) June 1997 A brief history of the, .303 Magnum cartridge: 1919-1932: In 1919, the National Rifle Association of Great Britain...
303 MAGNUM SEMI RIMMED
The following is an article by John Pople-Crump in the June 1997 issue of the ECRA newsletter 385-25/ From lohn Pople-Crump (G.B.) June 1997 A brief history of the, .303 Magnum cartridge: 1919-1932: In 1919, the National Rifle...
303 MAUSER (7.65 FRASER VELOX)
This is the same as the 7.65 Argentinian Mauser, loaded for Daniel Fraser, Edinburgh with the Fraser oblique ratchet bullet
303 MID RANGE (ADDER)
By Birmingham Metals & Munitions Company. The name ADDER is in all probability derived from Adderley Park Mills in Birmingham where it was manufactured. It is not a shortened 303 British as the dimension are smaller than the 303 case
303 PYGMY
303 RICHARD’S PATENT
Developed by John Richards in 1901 in the quest for cheap and convenient target practice. He took fired 303 British cases and reduced the length to 1.10” and loaded them with lead .303 bullets. The design was registered on the 3rd of December 1901 as Design No....
303 RIMLESS ENFIELD EXPERIMENTAL
British military experimental cartridge as described in a Royal Labs drawing #RL29339A that was tested between 1920 and 1927. According to Hoyem Vol. 3 p. 165 about 5 000 were manufactured. This specimen has a neck crimp.
303 SAVAGE
This was the first of four cartridges that were offered by Savage and dates from around 1895 and was chambered in the M1895 lever action rifle. It appeared at around the same time as the 30-30 Winchester, also launched in 1895. This is a Factory engraved M1895 Deluxe...
303 SEMI RIMMED “LEWIS”
In 1918 there was a demand for a more powerful .303 inch cartridge from both the Army and the newly formed Royal Air Force. The Army's primary interest was for an armour piercing round to defeat German loop holes and sniper shields, whilst the Air Force wanted a more...
303 SPORTING
This was a Belgian development in the early 1970’s by Michel Baikrich, who was the owner of Fabrique d'armes " l'Arquebuserie" – Liege, Belgium from 1972 to 1982. The 303 Sporting was made by shortening the case, as well as lowering the shoulder position...
303 SWIFT
303 British case loaded with Swift bullet for match shooting
303/22 VICKERS
There were three versions of the .303/.22 Machine gun training cartridge developed between 1925 and 1929, but none ever entered service. They were intended for use in indoor 25 yard ranges in Vickers guns with specially modified barrels. The first pattern used an all...
303/55 BOYS XPL
With the introduction of the 55 Boys, it also became necessary to consider the development of suitable training ammunition. There were fears that firing the Boys on normal ranges exceeded safety standards and could penetrate the backstops and increase the danger area...
303/7.92 ENFIELD EXPERIMENTAL
This was one of a series of British experimental cartridges dating from the 1920’s. It has a slight rebated rim.
307 WINCHESTER
308 BAER
This is one in a range of cartridges developed by Bruce Baer of Baer Custom Rifles from Willow Hill, PA.
308 BARNES SUPREME
Cartridge based on the 300 H& H Magnum case, but otherwise very limited info available.
308 BARNES-JOHNSON EXPRESS
Part of the Barnes-Johnson range of cartridges and balistically close to the 308 Norma Magnum.
308 COR-BON MAGNUM
This cartridge was announced at the 1999 Shot Show but apparently never went further than that. It has the same larger diameter type case as the WSM/Lazzeroni and Rem SUAM.
308 E.S.P. Mk II MATCH
308 MARLIN EXPRESS
The 308 Marlin Express was developed as a joint venture between Marlin and Hornady for the Marlin 336 Lever action rifle and is shorter than the 308 Winchester cartridge but closely resembles 308 ballistics in a lever action gun
308 MW HÖLLER
Cartridge designed by Austrian engineer Franz E Holler