40mm Bofors?
- Thread starter sean69
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Here's a Bofors round. Maybe it's the pic but yours looks like its belted.
http://www.specialistauctions.com/makethumb.php?pic=uplimg/mb108899_c838a882372fc3adb1779e0b50e8730f_mainpic.jpg&w=500&sq=Y
It does look a little bit - not mine, a friends.
here is a better image of the end,
[your image is broken BTW]
When looking at drill rounds, you have to remember that they are supposed to be loaded into and out of guns any, many times, where a live round only gets loaded once or twice.
So they make the things VERY solid, so that they will take the battering that the gun gives them...... and the battering that the crew gives them...... and not be wrecked in order that they can be used and abused again and again by new crews being trained.
And because the men coming in are not used to handling ammunition of this type, they make the things VISIBLY DIFFERENT (that super-deep extractor groove is an instance: live rounds did not have it) from a Service round, as well as MARKING them clearly. Clearly, they want NO accidents.
And this also has a bonus in that, when you are in the sights of a crippled Heinkel which is looking for a spot to lay its eggs, nobody gets all confused and shoves a clip of DRILL ROUNDS into the feedway! That well could be....... embarrassing, what say?
But that's what you have, friend.
Likely more than a few guys on this board would like to have one of those.
Enjoy!
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So they make the things VERY solid, so that they will take the battering that the gun gives them...... and the battering that the crew gives them...... and not be wrecked in order that they can be used and abused again and again by new crews being trained.
And because the men coming in are not used to handling ammunition of this type, they make the things VISIBLY DIFFERENT (that super-deep extractor groove is an instance: live rounds did not have it) from a Service round, as well as MARKING them clearly. Clearly, they want NO accidents.
And this also has a bonus in that, when you are in the sights of a crippled Heinkel which is looking for a spot to lay its eggs, nobody gets all confused and shoves a clip of DRILL ROUNDS into the feedway! That well could be....... embarrassing, what say?
But that's what you have, friend.
Likely more than a few guys on this board would like to have one of those.
Enjoy!
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Very interesting Smellie ...
myself included, it belongs to the father of a friend of a friend [read as acquaintance] .... apparently the story goes that he found it in a pile of junk in some corner when cleaning out a factory in Ajax some years back, which I found surprising as I thought none of the buildings that had anything to do with munitions were still around. [not discounting the possibly it could have found it's way there some other way.]
other than the 'whatever anyone will pay', approximately what does something like this sell for?
-sean
myself included, it belongs to the father of a friend of a friend [read as acquaintance] .... apparently the story goes that he found it in a pile of junk in some corner when cleaning out a factory in Ajax some years back, which I found surprising as I thought none of the buildings that had anything to do with munitions were still around. [not discounting the possibly it could have found it's way there some other way.]
other than the 'whatever anyone will pay', approximately what does something like this sell for?
-sean
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I usually pay between $40 and $60 for them. I occasionally see guys trying to get $100 or more, but I am not so sure they sell.
This one is interesting in that it's a WWII Cdn marked example. Most of the Cdn ones I find are 50s dated.
This one is interesting in that it's a WWII Cdn marked example. Most of the Cdn ones I find are 50s dated.
stencollector
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Numrich had them for $17.95 not that long ago, but they are now out of stock.
