Metal tecktor... 303 and revolver bullet??

Smellydog

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• May 19, 2026

• #1

...man has been again.
Is the bullet an incendiary? It's hollow and has green paint on it??
Is the bullet that measures around.360" from a possible service revolver?
I'm wondering if some training activities occurred here.
He also found a button from a military uniform.

 

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Mike1979

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• May 19, 2026

• #2

Looks like something you dropped a while back God knows what they find on your shooting ground...look we found some musket balls from the 18th century ..nope it was Smelly shooting last week lol

 

Smellydog

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• May 19, 2026

• #3

 

tackb

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• May 19, 2026

• #4

i think 303 incendiary had a blue tip from memory

 

Pedro

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• May 19, 2026

• #5

That short thing looks like a minie ball perhaps.

 

tackb

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• May 19, 2026

• #6

and the lead bullet is i'd guess from the 380 webley revolver , a particularly anaemic round , even with the 200gr bullet that was an attempt to improve it's stopping power you could watch the bullet trundling down range

 

Smellydog

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• May 19, 2026

• #7

Pedro said:

That short thing looks like a minie ball perhaps.

Click to expand...

It's a revolver bullet.

 

reiver

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• May 19, 2026

• #8

I had some . 303 incendiary ammo years ago they came from a Beau fighter crash sight they were loaded with ball powder the bullets had a small screw in the base of them and were on metal link for the 303 Browning 1919.
There was no coloured markings on the bullet but that could be from them sitting on the fell for nearly 50+ years .
Interestingly the all went bang when I fired them off .

I will see if I can find the cases

 

wytonpjs

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• May 19, 2026

• #9

Last WW2 problem I had to solve courtesy of a shooting colleague- right odd collection of rounds