A few questions about the buckshot and spherical ball cartridges manufactured for LDV / Home Guard use in WW2.
1) Is there any significance to the different colour cases that were used for the same load, or was it simply caused by whatever cases were available being fed into the loading machines?
2) This might go someway to answering my first question, has anyone ever opened a sealed box of spherical ball, buckshot, or wartime birdshot cartridges and found mixed colour cases in the box?
3) The 12 Bore spherical ball cartridges were loaded with a 1oz ball. Now I can understand that making the ball in 16 bore as opposed to 12 bore would have meant that one third more spherical ball could be made from the same amount of lead, and that an undersized ball could pass through a choked gun without causing damage, but how accurate (or not) were they? Has anyone any experience of shooting the war-time ball loads?
1) Is there any significance to the different colour cases that were used for the same load, or was it simply caused by whatever cases were available being fed into the loading machines?
2) This might go someway to answering my first question, has anyone ever opened a sealed box of spherical ball, buckshot, or wartime birdshot cartridges and found mixed colour cases in the box?
3) The 12 Bore spherical ball cartridges were loaded with a 1oz ball. Now I can understand that making the ball in 16 bore as opposed to 12 bore would have meant that one third more spherical ball could be made from the same amount of lead, and that an undersized ball could pass through a choked gun without causing damage, but how accurate (or not) were they? Has anyone any experience of shooting the war-time ball loads?
