- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
Thats the one.
Artillery projectile questions for the experts
- Thread starter myenfield
- Start date
Thats the one.
outoftowner
Regular
- Location
- Medicine Hat, AB
Aww that sucks, well if the info becomes public then you need to give me a nice old pm about it. I just want to know the basics, what round it was, why the hell was it in an elementary school (ww2 training maybe?) and was it live or not. but meh, doesen't bother me much.
Back in 76 when I worked for the CE section at Cold Lake, I got on a crew fixing up targets on the air weapons ranges there. We were told NOT to touch any of the gazillion or so practice bombs that litter the ground near the targets (usually old cars, the odd tank, painted dayglo orange), as approx 10% hadn't gone off. We were also told that while the charges were small, they might take off a hand or a foot. You really learned to watch where you put your feet...
Good times.
Good times.
Might not bother you, but if it turns out to be live, it might embarrass severly the local chief of police!! If you read the newspaper article in the Medicine Hat News, you will know what I'm talking about.
Deltasilver
Regular
- Location
- Right behind you...
Ahhh yes. Good old CLAWR. God I hate that place.
Bear Slashing crew found a rocket pod containing 6 unfired folding fin rockets in 2006. I believe they found it after they dropped a tree on it =D
Bear Slashing crew found a rocket pod containing 6 unfired folding fin rockets in 2006. I believe they found it after they dropped a tree on it =D
- Location
- Ottawa Ontario
Myenfield,
It looks like you have 2 Arty smoke rounds for sure. The unusual one could be High Explosive (HE) but I don't think so. Don't go by looks, these are not safe. Recommendation; set them carefully outside away from buildings or people and call the local police and they will bring in the right dudes to handle them. Some of this old stuff gets a tad unstable as it matures. These are not keepsakes, they can be really dangerous if manhandled or subjected to knocks or heat or..or. Get the picture?
Oldsoldier
It looks like you have 2 Arty smoke rounds for sure. The unusual one could be High Explosive (HE) but I don't think so. Don't go by looks, these are not safe. Recommendation; set them carefully outside away from buildings or people and call the local police and they will bring in the right dudes to handle them. Some of this old stuff gets a tad unstable as it matures. These are not keepsakes, they can be really dangerous if manhandled or subjected to knocks or heat or..or. Get the picture?
Oldsoldier
outoftowner
Regular
- Location
- Medicine Hat, AB
haha ok i'll dig up the article again and examine it deeply.
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38909&page=16
Post #156. You can see most of the "boom stuff" here and there in the photos. Acutally, the guys that came to get the shells seemed like pretty decent fellows. They probably would have been cool with a tour of my junk room. A couple of the police officers I spoke with on the phone during this, I'm not so sure about...
And please, people, read my earlier posts before giving me a hard time. The shells are long gone and I'm already working on my next dilemma
.I've been thinking about posting pics here for quite some time, now I have finally gotten off my butt and done it. Here are a few views of my gunroom. I have a thing for military stuff, mostly Commonwealth.
Some sights and badges.
Underneath this heap of crap is a Lee Enfield sighting tripod.
Some bayonets.
I'm inspired!
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I'm inspired!
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Yaa....its OK....
there are an awful lot of skanky civy guns on that one wall....
Just out of curiosity, can anybody confirm what the rusty old thing on top of #1 is ? Doesn't look like a fuze but more of a shipping/safety plug to me ....
As far as the fuzes for #2 and 3 are concerned, looks like the design of them is pretty clever (I'll have to look up the diagrams over the weekend, I just love finding out how mechanical things work).
As far as the fuzes for #2 and 3 are concerned, looks like the design of them is pretty clever (I'll have to look up the diagrams over the weekend, I just love finding out how mechanical things work).
Wrong. DO NOT MOVE! This is an old thread, but for general reference you should never advise anyone to move potential explosive ordnance. It maybe safe to do so and it may not be. Can you positively identify nature, caliber, condition, etc from a photo? If not you are not in a position to provide such advice. Just because an item has been moved once does mean it can safely be moved again.
Peter, this is a 4 year old thread! Your retired, what took you so long to find it?
Greetings from Arizona! Had to use the air conditioner in the car today, what a bummer.....
