Who can identify this bullet?

[Gnome75]

I don't actually have the answer I was hoping some one would know. Its not a 50 cal, this one is bigger.

He is some measurements I took

 

[hunter5425]

The Americans experimented with a 16mm aircraft cartridge called the Vega, the bullet looks old enough to qualify for WW2 vintage.

 

[Gnome75]

The Americans experimented with a 16mm aircraft cartridge called the Vega, the bullet looks old enough to qualify for WW2 vintage.

You might be on to something but I can't find much about the 16mm Vega. It for sure existed.

I have my doubts that this thing had been sitting on the ground for 70 years before I found it. Pretty cool if it was though.

 

[tomknotts]

Is it possible its a custom job for a black powder rifle

 

[vagrantviking]

Not black powder.

No rifling marks make me wonder about a sabot or if it's a bullet at all.

 

[beltfed]

Doesn’t look like any rifling groves left on it.
Could it be a part of a training round, possibly the center of a sabot of some kind?

 

[bobdbldr]

Are you sure it has been fired?

 

[bcsteve]

Where did you find it?

 

[unstableryan]

does the tip unscrew?

 

[Gnome75]

To answer all the questions at once.

I think it was fired because the tip is mushroomed.

It was laying on the ground in the Wainwright training area. They do allow hunters in deer season but chances are this is military bullet. Sabot training round has potential. I will do some googling

I have not tried to unscrew the tip. I should have time to try after work but it seems very solid

 

[fraserdw]

Kinda like the experimental ACPR round for a Boys AT rifle. It was a two part bullet with a tungsten core and steel jacket capable of piecing about an inch of armour. Tested in 1943 but never adopted as the PIAT was adopted instead.

 

[fraserdw]

Here we go. M791 APDS 25mm



Looks very close and is 16mm.

 

[buzzmagoo]

Is the lower part magnetic ? Just to let you know it might be radiated( doubt it ,but might be a possibility)
A sabo Penetrator core. The aluminum tip acts as a aerodynamic windshield for the holow point penetrator.

 

[Wileecoyote]

I'd be very careful / cautious with that round. It looks to me that it might be an Oerlikon 20mm armour piercing, and possibly incendiary, round. Leave the nose cone alone because you don't have any idea what is under it.

You should never pick up any type of round, casing or anything anywhere near a military training area.

 

[robxcr]

Here we go. M791 APDS 25mm

View attachment 150965

Looks very close and is 16mm.

Winner

 

[Gnome75]

Winner

I say he is winner.

I knew some one would know what I found

 

[tigrr]

Could still have things inside that are nasty. Signs all over saying don't pick up anything on the range!! Guess you can't read them.

 

[Cranberry]

With a muzzle velocity of 1345 metres/second I wonder how the aluminum windshield is only slightly bent.

 

[Gnome75]

I did try to unscrew it last night, it moved but I was chewing up the outside so I stopped.

To those who feel the need to keep telling me not to pick stuff up:

 

[Ltbull01]

I'd be very careful / cautious with that round. It looks to me that it might be an Oerlikon 20mm armour piercing, and possibly incendiary, round. Leave the nose cone alone because you don't have any idea what is under it.

You should never pick up any type of round, casing or anything anywhere near a military training area.

"I have no bombs in my palms, rockets in my pockets..."