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#10MinuteTalk - .303 British: Basically a .308?

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🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

For a cartridge introduced in the late 1800s that initially used black powder as its propellant, the .303 British is astonishingly modern. From a historical perspective, is it the Brit’s version of the 30-06? Is it basically a .308 in some ways? Grab your tea and crumpets for a fun talk on this rimmed, bottlenecked beauty that has stood the test of time.

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0:00.0

what is up everybody and welcome back to our holiday cartridge talks now if you

0:09.2

listen to the last one we did on the whether be six five RPM you might notice

0:14.8

at the very beginning I opened it with a little light singing so first off I'd

0:19.1

like to apologize for that now you'll also notice if you listen to that one and

0:23.1

if you did listen to it that just means you're really smart and you love the

0:26.4

holidays as much as we do you might have heard Jim close with a happy Christmas

0:32.6

which Jim you said that's kind of a tip of the hat to to the British to the

0:36.9

British which brings me to my next point the cartridge we're going to talk

0:40.5

about today a listener suggestion the three oh three British that's right we've

0:48.1

got a variety of visually it's we've got some cartridges themselves but

0:51.7

Jim you brought something here to to show and tell I know I brought something

0:55.7

that's very special to me this is it's hard to talk about the three or three

0:58.4

British without also talking about the Lee Enfield firearm that that fired

1:03.8

it for many many many many many many many many years which I'm sure we'll get

1:09.0

into this particular one is is not you know one that maybe I would guess

1:13.8

saw combat it's it's far too nice looking but it's still a good representation

1:18.8

would you get this thing Jim a bank parking lot okay I'm not gonna disclose which

1:22.9

bank and when it was also connected to a mall though so it wasn't just a bank

1:27.4

parking lot I actually was really nice it's like I don't know if that's a step up

1:32.3

from a Walmart parking lot have you ever seen that you know it was a step up

1:35.7

because the guy was the guy was not he was wearing a suit no okay so track

1:40.2

suit it was like a business from a from a like a level of you know I guess

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