Found 303 Ammo

[DDDWho]

At a small nasty little sporting goods in Yuma, FMJ but I’ll take it

 

[Ignition Override]

Corrosive (primers) or not, congratulations.

 

[DDDWho]

Corrosive (primers) or not, congratulations.

Research tells me they are non-corrosive made by PPU in Serbia. $30 per 20 does not sound bad to me these days.

 

[Ignition Override]

Good old PPU.

I’ve used many boxes of that in my several no. 4 and pair of no. 5 Enfields.

Plus WW2 (“ ‘ 43 “) - 1960s corrosive ammo.

The WW2 ammo came from a -former- company known as SAMCO…Not Sarco…Samco , with the popular Cuban lady .

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

Back in 2018 when I bought my sporterized No.4, unbeknownst to me it came with 5 full boxes of mixed commercial ammo. I suppose now the ammo would sell for more than the rifle cost me!

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

Save your brass so you can reload it. PPU makes good brass.

 

[bsparker]

Congrats, I haven't found any in stock lately near that price. Pre-pandemic (so tired of saying that), the local shop by me used to sell 20rds of PPU 174gr for $13/box. Man I long for those days. Reloading works out pretty well price wise right now and projectiles can be had pretty easily (if you have the primers). Good luck and enjoy shooting everyone of them!

 

[DDDWho]

Back in 2018 when I bought my sporterized No.4, unbeknownst to me it came with 5 full boxes of mixed commercial ammo. I suppose now the ammo would sell for more than the rifle cost me!

If you can find it. I’ve been searching high and low for months, ever since l bought the gun. It came with 9 rounds which prevented me from firing it. The owner was my neighbor and good friend. I bought it from his widow. The store has 2 more boxes I will be buying.

 

[Steel Horse Rider]

Samco was a good company, I bought a lot of ammo from them but they went bankrupt when the imports disappeared. I have a lot of SKS and Mosin ammo from them.

 

[swg1]

My earliest C&R rifles came from Samco in the eighties. A 1909 Argentine and a 96 Swede.

 

[Ignition Override]

Samco even had some excellent condition “Persian Mausers” around 2010 or so.

I didn't want a rifle built in Iran/Persia.
But they were Czech Mausers under contract ! IIRC

Only soon after they were sold out I discovered an article about these Mausers in Surplus Gun or a similar magazine.

Anyway, less than a week after I ordered that large case of WW2 etc, mixed .303 ammo, they stated Sold Out.

 

[Steel Horse Rider]

I may have gotten one of the last cases of .303 from them. Still have most of it.

 

[45CalPal]

its easy to find here...https://ammoseek.com/ammo/303-british

 

[wiscoaster]

AmmoSeek (link above) has a whole bunch of online vendors selling .303 Brit, pretty much all under $2 / round, some well under. Reasonable these days for milsurp ammo. I've paid over $3 / round (including shipping) for some calibers (Arisaka, I think it was).

 

[DDDWho]

I checked some of the places on AmmoSeek, some had excellent prices but the shipping charges boosted the final price way more that what I bought here the other day.

 

[Tallinar]

I picked up a few hundred rounds PPU 174 gr for $1.90/round after shipping and taxes from SGAmmo, courtesy of Ammoseek. Best deal I had been able to find for awhile to end up with good, solid, reloadable brass.