Lazy Dogs?
 

Anyone have any "Lazy Dog 'bomblets'" they're willing to let go of for something less than the rip off prices on GB or eBay? $10+/ea plus shipping is ridiculous...

For those who need a refresher:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_Dog_(bomb)

thats how much I sell them for (but not the shipping, I think I paid like $20 for all of them) - picked up 5 or 8 of them about 10 years ago

couple of different styles - my friend said that in the 50's/60's there were barrels of them for sale (seems like I always hear of barrels of Lugers, K98's, Mausers, Garands, etc)

this is one of the ones I have - let me look and see what I have, I sold a few of them

I also picked up some flechettes - they are three sizes i picked up, used in shotgun or M203 shells...

That's when I picked up one... in the 60's out of a bucket of them for $0.25. Those were the golden days of WWII surplus.

Yep. I also remember cardboard barrels full of them. I can remember 10 cents each.

I could never figure out what they would be good for- my not having an airplane nor being inclined to drop them on folks.

I think that kids played with them like they were little bombs and it cut their fingers and toughened the little buggers up.

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That would have been great! In the 50's, the kid next door and I would set up his "army men" in trenches and emplacements fashioned out of the driveway gravel, then sit back a bit and throw more bits of stone at them. We could have "bombed" them from above with these jobbers.

The neatness factor was high, since they did look like little, miniature bombs. The ones I remember were nowhere near as neatly polished as the one pictured. I remember a grey, phosphate finish to them. Many had bent fins you had to straighten yourself. They were no good in slingshots and too heavy to launch with fireworks.

The lore was that they would "go straight through an engine block" when dropped from a bomber. I highly doubt that, but I would not want to get koncked on the noggin' with one.

Not a dog owner. But...

I'm more into lively dogs. Kurusu just being mean. :D

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The bomblets were dropped on industrial installations. The intent was for the hardened steel projectiles to destroy machinery and production lines by jamming moving parts and severing electrical distribution without explosive demolition of the facility. A well intentioned attempt to preserve some buildings and infrastructure without leveling the city. Not sure how well it worked. I have one squirreled away someplace but it would probably take me a day to find it...I paid 5 cents for it at a flea market.

Ok, I am I the only one that never heard of these "bombs" before now? These little guys are news to me. :o

Eugene, it was new to me until about 7 years ago when my friend Bill Foehl asked me if I had ever heard of them.

BTW, he had a small revolver that he said was made locally. Turned out to be an ancestor of his who had designed it. And you find them here locally, so I have seen them on many occasions and bought one.

Zorba, did you get my PM?