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A._Roads
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Bullet info request
05/15/06 at 9:29am
 
Hi all, Could someone please post here, or email me direct if it is easier. I earnestly need a picture showing the official dimensions of the following projectiles:
 
1). The .45 service projectile for a Martini Henry Rifle.
 
2). The .303 Mk VII service projectile.
 
3). The .303 Mk VIII service projectile.
 
I need the projectiles only, not the cartridge case etc.
 
Help would be much appreciated as I am away from my library for some time & have no adequate reference here. I have to arrange for fiberglass copies of these, proportionally correct, approx 3 metres high, for a museum being fitted out. Thanks in advance, Adrian Roads.
 
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Bill_Curtis
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Re: Bullet info request
Reply #1 - 05/15/06 at 12:18pm
 
My text books for the .303 period do not include bullet dimensions but that for 1887 does.  See illustration.
 
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A._Roads
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Reply #2 - 05/15/06 at 2:04pm
 
Thanks for that Bill, it has nailed the M/H beatifully for me.
 
I'm okay for the .303's now as well.  
 
A quick draft of approx sizes on the drawing board has shown that to fit the spiral stairs & gantry inside those we need a 5' 6" higher ceiling than the 5 metres height we have. So those two bullets will be rethought....  
 
The martini having a wider body fits well!
 
Regards, Adrian.
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