[Barrie Yates]

Originally Posted by Retlaw

Got the son in law & daughter to take me up there today,
manage to shuffle about 1/2 mile or more, son in law took his metal detector,
we made two surprising finds on the track leading to the so called cave.
picture attached, the one on the right has been fired down a rifled barrel
left hand twist, which denotes .303, the diam and weight are also consistant
with a .303, possibly an overshoot from the Hapton range,
thats probably why it wasn't to deep,
what I can't understand is the 6.5mm, no rifling marks.
Retlaw.

Certainly strange, particularly since it did not have rifling marks. One weapon that fits in this range is the Mannlicher-Carcano 91/38 - right calibre, right generation - also the weapon that was used to assassinate JFK I believe.