With apologies for resurrection of an old thread, but I have just been looking at 2 of my old shooting books by L. B. Escritt - “Rifle and Gun”published 1953 and “Rifleman and Pistolman” 1955.

In the former he says that British sporting centre-fire rifle ammunition was then generally corrosive primed.

In the latter, which includes a picture of an I.C.I. .22 Hornet box marked “Non-Rusting” he mentions that ,22 Hornet and .240 Apex cartridges were by then “Non-Rusting” the implication being that was still the exception and not the rule.

The part box of Kynoch.295 “Non-Rusting” batch number 17 P O which is either 17 September 1940 (seems a bit early) or 1966 (seems a bit late to be labelled Non-Rusting rather than Non-Corrosive), which I pictured at the start of this thread has 6/42 inked on the back, which could well indicate it was originally purchased in June 1942.

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It still went “bang” (and shot better than I did) earlier this year. It would have helped if I had set the windage correctly for this 25 yard standing stage at a HBSA Rook Rifle evrnt.

Last edited by Parabola; 06/27/26 05:31 PM.