At least i hope ;-)
The cartridge that started it all.
The original 227gr round nose bullet over a healthy dose of BP.
Some 72½grains compacted to a solid in the case and another 7½grains of priming powder to set it of. And the hexagonal rifling.
With that load pressures clocked in at around 33½kpsi (from black powder!!!)
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My earliest one is’nt even in a Danish case!
DWM from 1892, the others are from 1901.
From git go there was no color code as the only loading was BP. From @1890 the first smokeless trickled out so the BP cartridges had a black tip and bottom. Silly i know but bear with us as armour piercing wasent invented yet ;-)
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Right after that a blank saw the light of day.
Wooden bullet and red paint on base and bullet.
Earliest one is a reloaded 1898 case.
And the Navy had their own system so blanks had to be blue.
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The cartridge that started it all.
The original 227gr round nose bullet over a healthy dose of BP.
Some 72½grains compacted to a solid in the case and another 7½grains of priming powder to set it of. And the hexagonal rifling.
With that load pressures clocked in at around 33½kpsi (from black powder!!!)
My earliest one is’nt even in a Danish case!
DWM from 1892, the others are from 1901.
From git go there was no color code as the only loading was BP. From @1890 the first smokeless trickled out so the BP cartridges had a black tip and bottom. Silly i know but bear with us as armour piercing wasent invented yet ;-)
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Right after that a blank saw the light of day.
Wooden bullet and red paint on base and bullet.
Earliest one is a reloaded 1898 case.
And the Navy had their own system so blanks had to be blue.
