Training ammunition
The invention provides a training cartridge having a peripheral fire primer and a gun modified to fire the cartridge. The combination of modified gun and peripheral fire cartridge avoids the potentially adverse consequences that could arise if live ammunition and training ammunition were to become inadvertently confused or mixed up by preventing the firing of live center fire ammunition.
1. A modified training ammunition system having a combination of a gun with a center firing pin and a center fire primer and one or more training cartridges having a peripheral rimfire primer, in which the modification comprises the replacement of the center fire firing pin of the gun with a rimfire firing pin and thereby causes the rimfire firing pin to strike only at the periphery of the rimfire primer and prevents the training system from firing live ammunition with the centre fire primer but permits firing of the one or more rimfire primer of the training cartridges when the rimfire firing pin strikes the rimfire primer.
2. A combination as claimed in claim 1 wherein the one or more training cartridges have a rear end into which a rimfire primer cup is set.
3. A combination as claimed in claim 1 wherein the one or more training cartridges is expandable upon firing, expansion of the one or more cartridges serving to urge a rear surface of the one or more cartridges rearwardly against a breech block of the modified gun to initiate recycling of the gun.
4. A combination as claimed in claim 1 wherein the rimfire firing pin has a flat spadelike structure formed on an end thereof and having one or more forwardly oriented projections, the projections being located at edges of the end of the rimfire firing pin such that the one or more projections at the end of the rimfire firing pin strike an impact area of the rimfire primer but not an impact area of a center fire primer.
5. A combination as claimed in claim 1 wherein the rimfire firing pin has a cylindrical form with one or more projections extending outwardly therefrom, wherein the one or more projections are disposed at a diameter such that the one or more projections strike an the impact area of the rimfire primer but not an, impact area of a center fire primer.
6. A combination as claimed in claim 1 wherein the rimfire firing pin has a cylindrical form with a hollow annular profile at one end to form a bellow end, the hollow end having an inner diameter such that the rimfire firing pin strikes an impact area of the rimfire primer with the hollow end, but not an impact area of a center fire primer.