It looks like a piece of solid, hardened iron. Basically a giant, fired, bullet. It's been around, fired out of a cannon, hit something, carried dropped, used as a door stop for 4 decades. I seriously doubt it could or ever did contain any explosive. It will be safe for a few more days sitting in my garage.
Can you identify this projectile?
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anyhow I just PM'd petrock
He is probably in bed though. I think hes starts at 0700. I wouldn't call the police till you hear from him. Even if it is inert they would want to take it from you for their own collection, I mean for safety yeah safety. If it hasn't gone off yet I wouldn't worry too much.
He is probably in bed though. I think hes starts at 0700. I wouldn't call the police till you hear from him. Even if it is inert they would want to take it from you for their own collection, I mean for safety yeah safety. If it hasn't gone off yet I wouldn't worry too much.
.....Please in the name of everything that is holy, tell me you don't have that in your house
Don't find yourself in the last "type" of person referred to in my signature....Wow, gives me the willies just thinking about it
For God's sake stop playing with it
Are you serious?
From what I see, there's no discernible fuse on the nose of it, and the tip it looks dented as if it hit the ground (or another target) on the nose after being fired (which, as already pointed out, is indicated by the grooves in the driving bands).
It appears as if it may be HESH round, typical AP round of the day. I'm thinking that it may have been a training round ("Target Practice"), and not loaded with explosives.
Personally, if it hasn't gone off after being fired, rained on, stored, and dicked with over the past several decades, I wouldn't get my panties in a bunch over it tonight...
On the side of it, is it red paint or does it just appear that way in the picture?
It appears as if it may be HESH round, typical AP round of the day. I'm thinking that it may have been a training round ("Target Practice"), and not loaded with explosives.
Personally, if it hasn't gone off after being fired, rained on, stored, and dicked with over the past several decades, I wouldn't get my panties in a bunch over it tonight...
On the side of it, is it red paint or does it just appear that way in the picture?
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"Hit it with a hammer if theres a loud noise, then it has explosive in it"
correction ...... Had.
In all seriousness There is probably some RCMP agent writing your ip address down right now to come confiscate that shell lest you get the urge to send it where it belongs like an icbc office.
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"Hit it with a hammer if theres a loud noise, then it has explosive in it"
correction ...... Had.
In all seriousness There is probably some RCMP agent writing your ip address down right now to come confiscate that shell lest you get the urge to send it where it belongs like an icbc office.
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Also be carefull it has not been fired or you would not own it may have been brought back from the war you could go on line and get info on this round ,size of hole in base will determine what type it is and what it was fired from markings will also help to tell what country it comes from could be a german tank round or field arty round .
From what I've seen in the photos you have a 75mm Armour Penetrating Shot W Tracer.
The projectile has been fired and the tracer element consumed.
I will dig a little bit further into some reference material and report back with more accurate findings.
If you do contact the police, they will in turn contact the military (LFWA where you live) who will dispatch an EOD team. As all military items remain the property of the CF regardless of: condition, filling or where found, the EOD team will remove the object and take it into custody and it will be disposed off.
The projectile has been fired and the tracer element consumed.
I will dig a little bit further into some reference material and report back with more accurate findings.
If you do contact the police, they will in turn contact the military (LFWA where you live) who will dispatch an EOD team. As all military items remain the property of the CF regardless of: condition, filling or where found, the EOD team will remove the object and take it into custody and it will be disposed off.
They want my 81 mm ammo back?
Does that mean I have to return all the stuff I bought from a Southern Alberta Scrap Dealer who bought it from Suffield? Fired 81 mm and 2 inch Mortar Illumination, and the fired 2.75 inch HVAR Fleshette rockets?
Reminds me of an incident on Vancouver Island where a Navy missle went astray and ended up going through a guys garage door. He wouldn't let them have the remains back until they fixed his door.
And a recollection from the late 50's when a 25 pounder was WAY off line and sent a HE across the river, so I can see a prevoius poster's anecdote of rounds landing outside the base in Alberta.
Almost any decent Gun Show will have large calibre projectiles for sale. Don't let the Brandon Police Service know about this, or they'll raid the Legion and I might spill my beer!
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Does that mean I have to return all the stuff I bought from a Southern Alberta Scrap Dealer who bought it from Suffield? Fired 81 mm and 2 inch Mortar Illumination, and the fired 2.75 inch HVAR Fleshette rockets?
Reminds me of an incident on Vancouver Island where a Navy missle went astray and ended up going through a guys garage door. He wouldn't let them have the remains back until they fixed his door.
And a recollection from the late 50's when a 25 pounder was WAY off line and sent a HE across the river, so I can see a prevoius poster's anecdote of rounds landing outside the base in Alberta.
Almost any decent Gun Show will have large calibre projectiles for sale. Don't let the Brandon Police Service know about this, or they'll raid the Legion and I might spill my beer!
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Looks a bit like this Sherman Tank projectile:
http://w.mawebcenters.com/Ordnance/ecommerce/catalog/product/gallery/id/569/image/1490/
http://w.mawebcenters.com/Ordnance/ecommerce/catalog/product/gallery/id/569/image/1490/
Looks a bit like this Sherman Tank projectile:
http://w.mawebcenters.com/Ordnance/ecommerce/catalog/product/gallery/id/569/image/1490/
Except your has no taper at the bottom.
Late model Shermans had the 17-pdr gun. It used the same 76.2mm ammo as the Soviet AT gun. Projos were boat-tailed because the MV was just a tad high: 2750 ft-sec, same as a .30-`06, just a tiny tad bigger.
I got 5 bucks sez this critter is INERT and always has been. No point getting all bent out of shape.
Take a look at Ian Hogg`s ammunition book: this thing is a SHOT, pure and simple.
I prefer ammunition to people a lot of the time. Ammunition only goes off when there is a REASON.
Has nobody ever thought that, in order to have an explosion, you gotta have something that explodes! That means that you have to have somewhere to PUT the stuff, a significant quantity of it, too, and there aint nowhere here to do that. Base fuses screw in but they are BIG, much bigger than the tiddly little trace element that was in this one and burned out before most of us were born.
This is a GREAT old artifact and a fun souvenir. It`s about as dangerous as a 13.5-pound anvil.
Enjoy!
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I got 5 bucks sez this critter is INERT and always has been. No point getting all bent out of shape.
Take a look at Ian Hogg`s ammunition book: this thing is a SHOT, pure and simple.
I prefer ammunition to people a lot of the time. Ammunition only goes off when there is a REASON.
Has nobody ever thought that, in order to have an explosion, you gotta have something that explodes! That means that you have to have somewhere to PUT the stuff, a significant quantity of it, too, and there aint nowhere here to do that. Base fuses screw in but they are BIG, much bigger than the tiddly little trace element that was in this one and burned out before most of us were born.
This is a GREAT old artifact and a fun souvenir. It`s about as dangerous as a 13.5-pound anvil.
Enjoy!
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A 17-pdr case is 76.2x583mm. This gun was originally developed by the British as a towed AT gun and later fitted into Sherman turrets. Soviet 76.2mm field guns used a 76.2x385mm case. I think you may have transposed some digits!
Does that mean I have to return all the stuff I bought from a Southern Alberta Scrap Dealer who bought it from Suffield? Fired 81 mm and 2 inch Mortar Illumination, and the fired 2.75 inch HVAR Fleshette rockets?
And a recollection from the late 50's when a 25 pounder was WAY off line and sent a HE across the river, so I can see a prevoius poster's anecdote of rounds landing outside the base in Alberta.
Almost any decent Gun Show will have large calibre projectiles for sale. Don't let the Brandon Police Service know about this, or they'll raid the Legion and I might spill my beer!
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Technically yes. Those items were sold as scrap but the condition of sale would be that a destruction certificate would have had to have been signed. Which means that the items were to be mutilated before they could be resold.
If the police ever do end up at your home and see items they suspect may contain explosives, you'll probably be forced to surrender them.
As for the Legion, the local ammunition platoon should have a register of all ammunition items at that location. They should all have been inspected to ensure that each item is free from explosives.
Side note, last fall some guy dropped an 18pdr HE shell of at the Coben Legion. It was then driven to Petawawa rolling around in the back of a pick up truck. When we got it, it was noted that someone had brazed the fuze to the projectile, the shell was unfired and there was definetly cordite rattling around in the cartridge case. She made a very large, very HE filled explosion when we put the C4 to her.
Moral of the story, if you don't know what you're ####ing with, it might just kill you.
Well from what I've determined thus far, it's not German. The German 75mm AP shot had a much larger threaded in tracer element.
The photos you've put up seem to lead me to Canadian/British Common Wealth, and they had pressed in tracer elements.
The research continues.
The photos you've put up seem to lead me to Canadian/British Common Wealth, and they had pressed in tracer elements.
The research continues.
