Everything You Wanted to Know About the .

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 .303 Lee-Enfield
Special Edition

Contents
04 Reloading – Old Soldiers’ Trusty Old .303
from December 1978 p34-35
Gerry Gore

07 The Lee-Enfield .303 – Destined for Legend (Part 1)

from December 1982 p16-18, 45-48
Gregor Woods

14 The .303 Lee-Enfield – Handloads for Hunting (Part II)

from January 1983 p32-37
Gregor Wocds

20 New Look Lee-Enfield

from March 1983 p24-26,29,60-61
Gregor Woods

26 Customising the .303 – The Final Steps

from April1983 p26-28,45,47
Gregor Woods

31 The Poor Man’s Magnum

from April1984 p50-51
Steve Cooke

33 C@ntrol MSS
100 Years of the .303
from December1988 p22-26,28-29
Malcolm Cobb

40 .303 – How Good for Hunting?

from December 1988 p33-34
Gregor Woods

42 Sons of the .303

from January 1989 p69-70
Gregor Woods

44 SMLE “Unlimited” – Really Short!

from September 1990 p14,16
Toby Openshaw

46 Two Underestimated Cartridges

from July 1991 p82-85
Brian Marsh

50 Plinking Loads for the .303

from Dec 1991 p61
WG Barnard

51 Fine-Tuning the .303

from September 1994 p65-66
Morris Richmond

53 No.4 Lee Enfield – Is It Worth Sporterizing?

from October 1996 p28-32
Lance Klein

58 Gallery – .303 Corrections

from April 1997 p84
.303 Greener
Terry Wilson, NT Gilmour & Neville Vickery

Louis Kamfer
from May 2005 p68

59 The Ishapore ‘Rifle 7.62mm 2A’

from August 1997 p44-46,48
Paul Scarlata

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 Foreword
63 Cartridge of the Month – The .303 British
from October 1998 p16
Koos Barnard
The .303 British cartridge and

64 Custom-loaded .303 Ammo Koos Barnard

the various rifles chambered
from June 1999 p58-59 for it are legendary; not only
in South Africa but literally
66 Claw .303 Bullets
from November 1999 p86
Greg Hikins everywhere the British Empire
once raised the Union Jack. It

67 .303 Epps
from April 2000 p35-36
Greg Hikins should come as no surprise,
therefore, that articles on this
broad subject often featured
69 The .303 Vickers Machine-Gun
from November 2005 p38-41
Peter Wells
in Magnum. This book is a
reproduction of most articles

73 An Old Warhorse Speaks Again

from March 2006 p48-52
Koos Barnard and snippets published about
this faithful old warhorse and

78 Cartridge of the Month – .303 Epps Improved Koos Barnard workhorse calibre, scanned
from March 2006 p63 from the originals, and
includes the original adver-
79 Tech Talk: Reloading for the Lee Enfield .303
from February 2013 p31
Danie Herbst tisements. These many and
varied articles cover most

80 Last of the British Lee-Enfields

from March 2014 p28-30
Terence Willson facets of the .303 cartridge
and the rifles chambered for
it, the first having appeared
83 Tech Talk: Forensics 101
from August 2014 p54
Malcolm Cobb
in the December 1978 edi-
tion of SA MAN. In total, it

84 The Lee-Enfield Rifle in the Anglo-Boer War

from October 2014 p42-45
Louis Wildenboer spans 37 years of knowledge
shared by known experts like

88 Problems Reloading .303s

from November 2014 p30-32
Malcolm Cobb Brian Marsh, Gregor Woods
and Malcolm Cobb.

91 A Special Rifle Rudolph Deppe

This book will serve as a
from December 2014 p42-43 valuable reference work for
enthusiasts and collectors, a
93 Shooters’ Clinic:
Sub-sonic .303 (G Melcher), .303 Remedy (R Mayne & D van Straaten)
from January 2015 page 58-59
guide for hunters and shoot-
ers using this calibre and
Sub-sonic .303 (N von Bergen) from May 2015 page 62 absorbing entertainment for
Gallery: Enfield Rifle Association of South Africa (Awie Pelser) armchair historians and gun
from July 2015 p70 nuts, young and old. Some
of the reloading data given in
95 Collector’s Corner: Lee Enfield and BSA – What is the difference?
from March 2015 p63-65 Malcolm Cobb the articles will be long out-
dated, involving propellants

97 Lateral Thinking – Solving a .303 Problem

from March 2015 p63-65
Malcolm Cobb that are no longer available.
We recommend that readers

100 The Humble .303 SP Berkemeyer use the data supplied on

from September 2015 p30-31 page 105.

102 Assembling a .303 No.4 MkI (T) Sniper Rifle

from October 2015 p36-38
Richard Meissner Phillip Hayes
Editor, ManMagnum

105 Reloading Tables for the .303 September 2015

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