Official weight and dimensions (from The Boxer Cartridge in the British Service by B. A. Temple):
- Weight: 410 gn (26.61 g)
- Diameter: 0.450 in (11.4 mm)
- Length: 1.115 in (28.3 mm)
There is unfortunately no way of telling apart the bullet of the mark 4 and the the three marks of carbines. The likelihood is that, given the short life of the mark 4 cartridge and that once production of the mark 3 resumed, examples of the mark 4 may have been converted to blanks (Aspinshaw, The Martini-Henry For Queen and Empire), the bullets of the reduced length which are recovered are generally assumed to be carbine bullets. Later solid drawn cartridges for the carbine featured a bullet without a cannelure (mark 1 solid case 1887) and one cannelure (mark 1 solid case cordite 1903), but examples of these have not yet been encountered for this website.
Carbine mark 1-3, fired
- Weight: 392 gn (25 g)
- Diameter: 0.451 in (11.4 mm)
- Length: 1.087 in (27.6 mm)
This example shows a nice side glance impact along the full length of the bullet.
Carbine mark 1-3, fired
- Weight: 384 gn (24.9 g)
- Diameter: 0.446 in (11.3 mm)
- Length: 1.093 in (27.8 mm)
This example though otherwise intact, but has suffered from corrosion and has lost weight, diameter and length accordingly.
mark 4 (1874) and carbine mark 1 (1877), 2 (1878) and 3 (1879)
