Found a Law's :)

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My lucky day it would seem. A friend called to see if I'd be interested in a bin of dirty old brass and some shells. Mixed into mess my jaw drops when I find these:






They need alot of work, but winters aren't known for being short around here so I wont be bored.

Anyone have a link to a rebuild/repair guide that they could share.
 
Like WOW!! Wicked score! You just don't find that kind of stuff any more. The millatary doesn't sell artillery shells any more ,them shell casings they look real nice. What size / caliber are they? They look big. What are those green tubes things they kinda look like rocket parts$ I can see that one has rocket marked on it.
 
buzzmagoo said:
Like WOW!! Wicked score! You just don't find that kind of stuff any more. The millatary doesn't sell artillery shells any more ,them shell casings they look real nice. What size / caliber are they? They look big. What are those green tubes things they kinda look like rocket parts$ I can see that one has rocket marked on it.
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Because its a shoulder mounted rocket launcher.

Weren't these single use and just tossed aside when used usually?
 
NICE score! I'm pretty jelly. I have wanted a LAW for the wall in the man cave for a long time now.
 
OK did some checking for them rocket tubes/ lanchers are they the ones that you have to pull out before you can fire it? Those things are wicked cool!!! Didn't know that you can have something like that. Are they Very common? I have never seen them up for sale any where before. Hey! Gsg 1911 seeing that you got four of them and me being a nice guy what would it take for you may be to sell me one? Promise to give it a good home. May be I could persuade you to let go of one of them big shells too? They'll go great in my man cave.
 
Thanks for the help so far.

For those of you old enough to remember, the Law's was a big deal in Dirty Harry - The Enforcer. It got played up almost as much as his Model 29.

Iirc they were designed to be cheap and compact firepower for use on light skinned vehicles. A step up from the M79 40mm launchers but not as cumbersome as the Carl Gustav's of the day. I also seem to recall the CAF was the first to figure out how to reload them thanks to Shiny Pony senior's budget cuts. They're fairly common in the States but I've never seen one up here except on an airsoft website.

The silver casing is a 105mm. The APFSDS/T should mean it was for a Leopard 1 main gun firing a tank buster Armored Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot. Pretty sure the ' T ' would mean Tungsten as opposed to the Depleted Uranium the Americans preferred. The rusty one is a 90mm. Marking are a bit harder to read on that one atm. Going to scrub it up and see if it I can get it clearer. The shell is a 155mm Smoke. 60 pounds empty all by itself. Not sure how much heavier it gets when the charge gets added. Suffice it to say I'm 100 % sure I'm to old and out of shape to volunteer for artillery duty.

The bonus is my buddy called me back earlier today and it seems there's at least a bit more fun stuff he wants me to come clean up. If it's half as good as this I wont mind bathing in dirt again for half a day.
 
GSG1911 said:
Thanks for the help so far.

For those of you old enough to remember, the Law's was a big deal in Dirty Harry - The Enforcer. It got played up almost as much as his Model 29.

Iirc they were designed to be cheap and compact firepower for use on light skinned vehicles. A step up from the M79 40mm launchers but not as cumbersome as the Carl Gustav's of the day. I also seem to recall the CAF was the first to figure out how to reload them thanks to Shiny Pony senior's budget cuts. They're fairly common in the States but I've never seen one up here except on an airsoft website.

The silver casing is a 105mm. The APFSDS/T should mean it was for a Leopard 1 main gun firing a tank buster Armored Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot. Pretty sure the ' T ' would mean Tungsten as opposed to the Depleted Uranium the Americans preferred. The rusty one is a 90mm. Marking are a bit harder to read on that one atm. Going to scrub it up and see if it I can get it clearer. The shell is a 155mm Smoke. 60 pounds empty all by itself. Not sure how much heavier it gets when the charge gets added. Suffice it to say I'm 100 % sure I'm to old and out of shape to volunteer for artillery duty.

The bonus is my buddy called me back earlier today and it seems there's at least a bit more fun stuff he wants me to come clean up. If it's half as good as this I wont mind bathing in dirt again for half a day.
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You are semi correct on the M72 tube being "reloadable" the Norwegians (I believe) developed a insert that fired a 22mm rocket as a means to keep training costs down. Back in the day the M72 costed out under $300 dollars so I cannot see any huge savings getting kits, modifying a expended tube, having another "system" (subcal) in place and stocking another little rocket. We used it (the subcal) once and to be frank it was more bother then it was worth. The venerable M72 is a capable system and great concept, so good in fact the Soviets copied the design in the RPG18 that was further refined into the RPG22 and RPG26.

http://gunrf.ru/rg_granatomet_rpg-18_eng.html
 
I vaguely recall hearing (probably from one of the older NCOs while I was teaching at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds) about one of the lesser-known factors in the development of the M72. After the M79 grenade launcher replaced rifle grenades in U.S. usage, there was a large stockpile of of the still fairly capable M31 HEAT anti-tank rifle grenades. When it was realized that there was a need for a something rifleman-portable with more penetration than could be obtained in that 40mm format, some bright (and/or economically-minded) soul thought to try sticking the 66mm rifle-grenade warhead on a rocket and start playing with alternative launcher formats. I just did a web search and found that this is mentioned in the Wikipedia entries on the M31 rifle grenade and M72 LAW.

Regards,
Joel
 
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