Been reloading a bit last week.
Here’s a picture.
No,no, I never owned a rifle in .303 British.
These are .303 cases reformed to 6.5x53.5mmR.
Been reloading for my Dutch Steyr Mannlicher M95.
This is what they look like when I’m ready.
When I bought the Dutch M95 several years ago I used some Dutch military ammo, but that was no success.
Probably due to bad storage most of the ammo refused to work.
Dutch military ammo….Besides the military ammo I also tried some factory reloaded ammo.
This ammo was made by the Janssen Company in Arnhem.
They used the military cases and reloaded them.
I don’t know where they got the 5mm Berdan primers, but I wish I still had a few to reload the cases I have.
…JA means “Janssen Arnhem”…......different stamps in one box……To be honest….I prefer to use my own reloaded cartridges.
I don’t trust the military ammo I have and the factory reloaded ammo has a huge recoil.
Here are some pictures of the three different cartridges.
From left to right:
* Military case with 5mm (.196 inch) Berdan primer
* Factory reloaded case with 5mm(.196 inch) Berdan primer
* Reformed .303 Winchester case with 5.5mm (.216 inch) Boxer primer.The Winchester cases work perfectly and the 34 grains of VihtaVuori Finnish powder behind a 140 grain Lapua bullet performs very well.
Besides the fact that it is fun to shoot this rifle, it draws a crowd every time I take this rifle to the range.
It might be Dutch, but you just don’t see this type of rifle very much over here.
Met vriendelijke groet,
Martin