Author: Shamu
Subject: Mk VII & Mk VIII (Z) ball ammo (long)
Posted: 21 August 2013 at 6:09am
Never found such a beast, sorry.
The only Cordite I've ever seen looked like dirty angel hair pasta, long thin solid sticks.
Incidentally there is now a controversy (surprise!) about how the charge was set up for standard Mk VII ball. One camp swears by a specific grain weight, the other says that, due to variations in manufacture each batch of Cordite was measured by length to get a specific performance & then that exact same length was the load used, weight varying a bit, but performance being standardized.
Subject: Mk VII & Mk VIII (Z) ball ammo (long)
Posted: 21 August 2013 at 6:09am
Never found such a beast, sorry.
The only Cordite I've ever seen looked like dirty angel hair pasta, long thin solid sticks.
Incidentally there is now a controversy (surprise!) about how the charge was set up for standard Mk VII ball. One camp swears by a specific grain weight, the other says that, due to variations in manufacture each batch of Cordite was measured by length to get a specific performance & then that exact same length was the load used, weight varying a bit, but performance being standardized.