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Trigger Warning:- The following may upset dedicated cartridge collectors.

I recently bought at Southams 4 100 round boxes of 1942 Canadian wartime training .22 Long Rifle.

Anyone know what T.P. stands for?

The box on the left still has both its card “to open pull tab” seals intact and I am preserving that for a cartridge collector friend.

I decided to sacrifice to science 1 box, that had been opened and a round missing.

I shot 20 in my 1909 vintage B.S.A. War Office Pattern, checking the bore remained unobstructed between shots. All went briskly.

Thus encouraged I decided to use it in our recent HBSA Competition for these rifles

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At 50 yards shot sitting (13 shots best 10 to count) my score was the best of the 4 competitors. Not bad for 82 year old ammunition. It was no fault of the ammunition that my 25 yards standing stage pulled me back to last place.

Last edited by Parabola; 06/07/25 12:24 PM.