.303 Brit ammo...

If you're gonna buy commercial stuff, buy the PMP. Their brass is the most dimensionally accurate (especially in the case head diameter).

Screw reloading! Why can't wolf start manufacturing $80/case .303 ammo?

Screw cheap ammo! I wanna hit what I'm aiming at....

I've hit targets at 950 yards with Sellier & Bellot ball ammo, and iron sights. The Remington UMC 174g FMJ is also good.

Remember, Col. Boxer spelled his last name with a capital "B". It isn't "boxer"- primed... I hope the poor man wasn't related to that California politico, Barbara Boxer. ..

I'd use Winchester or Remington ammo and reload that. Winchester's 180 grain softpoint is close to original velocity (100 FPS more, on paper) and usually shoots quite well. Good hunting ammo for deer size game, too.

Lone Star

Screw steel-cased Wolf ammo.

Screw reloading! Why can't wolf start manufacturing $80/case .303 ammo?

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Nasty stuff, makes a lot of noise, litters the firing range, and sometimes puts the bullet where the front sight says it's supposed to go.

Nasty stuff, makes a lot of noise, litters the firing range, and sometimes puts the bullet where the front sight says it's supposed to go.

I shoot it in my M-39 (7.62x54R) and it does just fine. My experience with Enfields is that they are not particularly easy on brass anyhow.
Might as well make it steel instead.
I'd try it.

www.samcoglobal.com has Pakistani surplus and a few different British surplus, or they did a few months ago anyway. About the same time, www.natchezss.com had Remington UMC on sale for like $8 a box so I bought five or six boxes as I figured the brass would be good to have and I wouldn't get that from corrosive surplus. I haven't fired any yet though.

"...Surplus never shot as well..." Never would be either. Military ammo isn't loaded to be that accurate.
The .303 Brit hasn't been used by any military for well over 40 years. Hasn't been loaded either. FMJ's yes, but not surplus ball. Even 20 years ago, when I ran a CF Army Cadet Corps, we got 80's manufacture IVI ball. Mind you, we did, at one point, get 1944 vintage DA ammo. Fabulous stuff. Much better than the IVI.
"...POF Pakistani..." I believe so. Unreliable at best and who knows how it has been stored.

Pof = Pos

POF Pakistani...

= Cordite propellant, of dubious chemistry, stored in unknown conditions. Sometimes it goes bang, often it doesn't.

Beware of linked .303 made for the Bren gun. It's loaded to much higher pressures and is not suitable for an rifle.

I shoot S&B FMJ or SP almost exclusively in my SMLE sporter. It's an heirloom, and I'm keeping it away from the corrosive stuff.

When I get some spare time, I plan to handload some "reduced recoil" loads. Something in the .30-30 or .30-40 Krag range will handle Texas whitetails quite nicely w/o the shoulder abuse.

Something in the .30-30 or .30-40 Krag range will handle Texas whitetails quite nicely w/o the shoulder abuse.

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40gr Reloader10x + Sierra 150 = 2600fps in a nice economical and accurate package suitable for largish deer, and 42gr Reloader 10x + Sierra 125 = 2800fps for the smaller deer.

If you have a No5Mk1 Jungle Carbine...

And aren't terribly crazy about the recoil of 174-180gr fodder, load up some 123gr AK-style .311" FMJ or soft-points, on top of about 44 grains of IMR4895. Very comfortable (but loud!) to shoot from the Jungle Carbine, and they zing right along.

Thanks, rbernie. I'll try those...

load up some 123gr AK-style .311" FMJ or soft-points, on top of about 44 grains of IMR4895. Very comfortable (but loud!) to shoot from the Jungle Carbine, and they zing right along.

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Worth about 2750fps from my No4Mk1, according to my Beta.

My 303's all prefer the Sierra 125gr SP over the Hornady or Speer 123gr bullets. They also seem to prefer 10x and Varget for the 125gr stuff (with very low SD's/ES's coming from the 10x loads). 45gr-47gr Reloader15 is a good accurate midrange load for the Siera 150's; worth between 2550fps-2700 fps and clean, with a mild recoil and a very low ES/SD. Another load with a very low SD/ES is 43gr-46gr Varget under a Sierra 150, with 44gr giving moderate velocities and low recoil with around 2500fps.