500 COLT KYNOCH

Research notes

There are very little notes that survived regarding this cartridge, but the best available info can be found on p.290 of Labbets’s “BRITISH SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION 1964 – 1938.” It appears to have been developed around 1901 and is a semi-rimmed cartridge. There also exists a rimmed cartridge called the .500 Kings Norton Colt Experimental. The .500 Colt Kynoch was also referred to as the .500 North, with North referring to a Mr. T.K North, who was employed by Colt in London and who held a number of patents regarding machine gun designs.