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The fun things your colleagues bring you...

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 12:19 am
by jackssmirkingrevenge
... when they know you're into projectiles :)

Shame I don't have a 3" barrel :roll:

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 12:22 am
by ilovefire
awesome! has it been disarmed? or is it just a solid projectile?

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 12:29 am
by Patto
hehehe man you have some cool friends :lol:

Is it a mortar Round ?

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 12:49 am
by jackssmirkingrevenge
It's inert, not sure if it was actually meant to be fired or just used for firing drills. Looks like a British 3 inch/81mm round but haven't been able to identify it exactly.

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 2:22 am
by Selador
jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:It's inert, not sure if it was actually meant to be fired or just used for firing drills. Looks like a British 3 inch/81mm round but haven't been able to identify it exactly.
You sure it's inert ?

Have you hit it with a hammer ?

;)

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 2:25 am
by jackssmirkingrevenge
It's marked "PRAC" which in all probability means "practice", there is no fuse fitted nor is provision for a fuse, and in any case the previous owner informs me he used to throw it around quite happily as a child... so yeah ;)

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 2:34 am
by Selador
jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:It's marked "PRAC" which in all probability means "practice", there is no fuse fitted nor is provision for a fuse, and in any case the previous owner informs me he used to throw it around quite happily as a child... so yeah ;)
So...

You haven't hit it with a hammer, yet ?

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 4:14 am
by jackssmirkingrevenge
Oxbreath wrote:You haven't hit it with a hammer, yet ?
No, and I won't :P

Here's another cute little relic, the (fired) tail section of a 2 inch mortar round :D

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 4:27 am
by Zeus
Funny you should post this now, a kid out here brought a grenade to school for show and tell, the b0mb squad had to come out and deal with it, not before the staff and some students buried it in the oval!

I almost used emoticons then, I'm slipping.

Edit: Even if it was live but lacking a fuse, you'd have to shoot it with a rifle which has a muzzle energy rivaling a .243, more like a .308 win mag

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 1:01 pm
by Ragnarok
jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:No, and I won't
Shame. It would've looked great on high speed.

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 4:23 pm
by HunterT
Gotta love military surplus! :D I have a belt of .30 cal machine gun blanks, somewhere.

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 2:37 am
by jackssmirkingrevenge
Ragnarok wrote:
jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:No, and I won't
Shame. It would've looked great on high speed.
lol indeed.
I have a belt of .30 cal machine gun blanks, somewhere.
You know what to do ;)

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 3:26 am
by HunterT
jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:
I have a belt of .30 cal machine gun blanks, somewhere.
You know what to do ;)
The Youtube video is gone.

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 3:44 am
by jackssmirkingrevenge
HunterT wrote:The Youtube video is gone.
try now.

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 2:35 pm
by HunterT
I see a belt fed valveless cartridge bbmg in my future. :idea: Thanks JSR