butlersrangers wrote on Apr 1^st, 2020 at 1:20am:

Fred - Psteinmayer is concerned about his re-loads (in .303 British) for an Australian made Short- Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk-III, (manufactured at the Lithgow arsenal). He is worried he could have an experience, like I did, with my BSA rifle.

WHOOPS! I was remembering all the members using 303 cases during the shortage.  Sounds like you got an outlier on your remanufactured model. No use even speculating why it had all the separations with reloads since you do not have it anymore.