Old artillery shell
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I repaint them all the time I have no problem with it .If it has the original paint on of coarse I leave it alone .I have quite a few nice ones includeing a Russian shell that is almost 6 ft tall and a couple real nice german 88s complete with shell casings .I'm starting to run out of space
I don't wanna hijack this thread, but I figure it would be better to post here than start a new one.
Maybe someone can identify this shell; I found it in a river(in Eastern Europe), when I was a kid and I just came across it last summer and took these pictures. I can assume it can be anywhere between a German 75mm to 88 or a Russian 76.5, I've never checked the actual diameter. Second picture has shell, next to a typical canadian licence plate, it gives an ideea as to what size it is.
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Maybe someone can identify this shell; I found it in a river(in Eastern Europe), when I was a kid and I just came across it last summer and took these pictures. I can assume it can be anywhere between a German 75mm to 88 or a Russian 76.5, I've never checked the actual diameter. Second picture has shell, next to a typical canadian licence plate, it gives an ideea as to what size it is.
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Being fired, still intact, and missing the fuze, its more likely to be an AP round. (portable shotgun.)
It would be easier to determine if the pictures had a ruler next to the shell or any stamped markings into the projectile were showing. Given that it was recovered in Eastern Europe narrows it down a bit. If it is a Russian 76mm Sh-354G shrapnel projectile it would be 2.944" across the base and 8.854" from the base to the bottom of the fuze (since the fuze in this case is missing). Can you insert a wooden dowl inside from the fuze well to the base of the projectile?
Here's some more pics of the same shell;
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By the way, the stuff spilled from inside the shell isn't no secret type of explosive, it's rust...
Also, notice in the last picture, the bullet shaped(kinda' like a triangle) hole/groove towards the front, I wonder what that is.
By the way, the stuff spilled from inside the shell isn't no secret type of explosive, it's rust...
Also, notice in the last picture, the bullet shaped(kinda' like a triangle) hole/groove towards the front, I wonder what that is.
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I found it about 20 years ago, as I was swimming in the river, in the town of Lugoj, western Romania. The water was about 2m deep and this thing was at the bottom half burried in sand and rocks. It got examined by my uncle, who at the time happened to be a cop; he eventually gave it back to me, saying it was safe.
As for the history of the area; I've done some research and asked elders and even my grandmother about the fighting that took place around there; apparently there wasn't much action, other than the retreat of the German/Romanian armies in 1944 that were getting harrassed by the Russians. There was also a ground attack squadron based there as well, a bunch of Focke Wulf 190s.
There is also the posibility that the shell is post WW2, since an artillery range is only 10 miles away and also a large artillery unit was based on the outskirts of town, until disbanded(when the country joined NATO
).The unit was initially equipped with 75mm and 88mm anti tank guns, but later received Russian 76mm, 100mm, 130mm, 152mm, including self propelled.
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