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Re: lee enfield on kangaroo [Re: vykkagur]
      #347708 - 09/12/20 10:46 PM

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I've officially become one of those tedious old farts who repeats his stories over and over again. Sigh.




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Re: lee enfield on kangaroo [Re: vykkagur]
      #347709 - 09/12/20 10:50 PM

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I just looked back through this thread and realized that I've just repeated myself, almost verbatim, from what I wrote here a month ago.

I've officially become one of those tedious old farts who repeats his stories over and over again. Sigh.




Ha ha, you're not the only one.

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Re: lee enfield on kangaroo [Re: NitroX]
      #347722 - 10/12/20 04:57 AM

I'VE NEVER DONE THAT
today(yet).

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Re: lee enfield on kangaroo [Re: DarylS]
      #355161 - 15/07/21 05:23 AM

Schutztruppen Askari with a Lee Enfield



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Re: lee enfield on kangaroo [Re: lancaster]
      #355173 - 15/07/21 02:36 PM

Like the boots.

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Re: lee enfield on kangaroo [Re: vykkagur]
      #355174 - 15/07/21 02:56 PM

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I just looked back through this thread and realized that I've just repeated myself, almost verbatim, from what I wrote here a month ago.

I've officially become one of those tedious old farts who repeats his stories over and over again. Sigh.




At least that probably makes the stories true, or true to your belief or recollection. The dudes on the internet who make a lot of crap up, their stories are often not consistent at all and change over time.

Recollection, another old fart problem That is another issue. When ones "oldtimers" means one's recollection changes. How far away was that elephant when I shot it? Or that stag? Interesting to go back ten years or twenty and see what you wrote back then, and if it has changed in one's memory.

One rule for writing stories. Keep them as close to the truth as possible and then one does not need to remember the bullshit one wrote in the past!

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Re: lee enfield on kangaroo [Re: NitroX]
      #355329 - 19/07/21 08:23 AM

An observation on the term "dumdum" bullets.

Though I have heard the term for some time, I have always had access to proper lead solids or hollow points or similar jacketed versions. Never had to mess with the tips of bullets to obtain desired performance. Apparently a different time and place.

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Re: lee enfield on kangaroo [Re: crshelton]
      #355330 - 19/07/21 09:30 AM

As I understand the Dum Dum bullet nomenclature, that name arose due to the Dum Dum company in India which sold soft point, "expanding" ammunition in various calibres.

When military full jacketed ammo was modified to expand, it then become known as Dum Dum ammo, due to "likely" some semi-literate person naming it that and the name stuck.

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Re: lee enfield on kangaroo [Re: DarylS]
      #355369 - 20/07/21 04:04 AM

Dum Dum is a city in India
"During the 19th century the area was home to the Dum Dum Arsenal, a British Royal Artillery facility. It was here that, in the early 1890s, Captain Neville Bertie-Clay developed a bullet with the jacket cut away at the tip to reveal its soft lead core (see hollow-point bullet), known informally as a dum-dum[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] or more correctly as an expanding bullet. The previous name of Dum Dum was "Domdoma". " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dum_Dum

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Re: lee enfield on kangaroo [Re: vykkagur]
      #355373 - 20/07/21 06:39 AM

Ellwood Epps in Orilllia, Ontario used to have a “wall of shame” where blown up rifles, shotguns, and pistols were mounted on the wall with a descriptor as to what caused the blow up. One memorable one was a .303 barrel that was turned into shrapnel by the owner cutting off the tips of exposed lead base FMJs in an effort to make lead pointed hunting bullets. The owner was killed according to the descriptor on the wall with the shredded barrel. The first one went bang. The second one went BOOM!!! Believe it or not whether it could happen, I’ll NEVER be so cheap as to risk my life over a Mickey Mouse effort to save a couple of bucks attempting to turn something into another thing that it was never intended to be.

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Re: lee enfield on kangaroo [Re: Postman]
      #355396 - 20/07/21 06:14 PM

There are people and there are dumb people.

Cutting just the tips is no issue at all. Cutting well down, who knows. Probably hundreds of thousands have been done in Aust since the 1950's with great issues.

I will do it for 7.62x39 FMJs when I get a rifle for it again. Got LOTS of fmj ammo.

I have 6.5x55 Swedish FMJ ammo. Very accurate. Will continue to do it to them as well.

.303's of course.

7.62 and .30-06's a needed.

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Re: lee enfield on kangaroo [Re: NitroX]
      #355407 - 20/07/21 09:15 PM


There was a die and drill bit available to turn FMJ projectiles into hollow points.
Worked very well.


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Re: lee enfield on kangaroo [Re: NitroX]
      #355679 - 31/07/21 09:55 AM

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Like the boots.





He keeps them well-shined, too.


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Re: lee enfield on kangaroo [Re: lancaster]
      #355680 - 31/07/21 09:59 AM

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Dum Dum is a city in India
"During the 19th century the area was home to the Dum Dum Arsenal, a British Royal Artillery facility. It was here that, in the early 1890s, Captain Neville Bertie-Clay developed a bullet with the jacket cut away at the tip to reveal its soft lead core (see hollow-point bullet), known informally as a dum-dum[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] or more correctly as an expanding bullet. The previous name of Dum Dum was "Domdoma". " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dum_Dum





Let me tell you what I know about dum-dum bullets...oh, wait... Never mind.


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Re: lee enfield on kangaroo [Re: NitroX]
      #355685 - 31/07/21 03:00 PM

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There are people and there are dumb people.

Cutting just the tips is no issue at all. Cutting well down, who knows. Probably hundreds of thousands have been done in Aust since the 1950's with great issues.

I will do it for 7.62x39 FMJs when I get a rifle for it again. Got LOTS of fmj ammo.

I have 6.5x55 Swedish FMJ ammo. Very accurate. Will continue to do it to them as well.

.303's of course.

7.62 and .30-06's a needed.




That or cut tip down to show good lead on bullets that have to lead poured/stamped in from the base and have lead showing at the base.


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