6.5mm Krag-Jorgenson
During WW2 Kynoch produced several million rounds of 6.5x55 Krag-Jorgenson ammunition for dropping to Norwegian resistance fighters. The rounds bore a clandestine headstamp, although to any experienced eye it was obviously Kynoch production.
6.5mm K-J
The exact nomenclature of these rounds is not known.
The case was drawn brass with an unringed Berdan primer. The headstamp was "6.5 KJ", the characters being positioned at twelve and six oclock. Whilst this was supposed to be a clandestine headstamp it exhibited all the characteristics in terms of font and size of normal Kynoch production.
The spitzer bullet had a gilding metal envelope and a lead core, weighing 160 grains.
The propellant was about grains of nitrocellulose.
The ammunition was packed in 20 round cardboard boxes, oddly labelled in German. These boxes were packed in a variety of fake food tins before dropping to the resistance forces.
Clandestine packaging label
Post war, surplus cases from these contracts were used to load rounds for the Small Arms Calibre Panel trials (Ideal Calibre trials).