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05-28-2012, 11:17 AM | #1 |
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Mystery shell.
I wonder do any of you have knowlege with artilery?
This shell has been sitting in my basement for years and I know nothing about it, I suspect its anti aircraft, The top unscrews and there is nothing inside any longer and it seems to have been fired at some stage judging from the rifling. |
05-28-2012, 12:12 PM | #2 |
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The closest image I can find is of a WW1 3.8inch Schrapnnel shell.
http://cartridgecollectors.org/?page...-shell-casings |
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05-28-2012, 01:47 PM | #3 |
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WW1 anti personel shell,nasty! It does look very similair. I always assumed the timer was for a flak shell, You really do learn every day.
I wonder how it survived in such good shape after firing. |
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I liked your link. Guys who collect artillery shells? I bet their wives love that! Bob
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I have a 155mm RAP round in my garage, only been fired once.
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Haha, I see your point, I bought this for a 100 kroner off a little russian guy about seven years ago at a flea market, no idea why realy, it just seemed to interest me. I put it in my back pack and headed over to the pub for the day. anyway I woke up the next day with this thing sitting on the floor with the top screwed off, luckily it had been boiled out a long time ago and I must have figured it was a de-ac due to the barrel scoring.
Since then im married two kids and a lot more cautious what i bring back from a day drinking! I remember the thing was absolutly stinking though, covered in decades of nicotene tar,. |
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bazaar indeed
As for bazaar stories, those would be hard to top.
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It looks very much like one I have in my cabin. I will take a closer look next time I'm there too be sure.
Acutally.. I use it as a counterweight for a hatch up to the second floor. No idea how it ended up there, I always thought it was something my father found when diving. But when I think of it, that just don't make any sense.. I know he found some shells that where taken care of by the army. But I can't imagine that he would be interested in having one deactivated.. nor did he ever show any interested in it, so it must have ended up there by someone else. I notice andwaahs is also from Norway, perhaps there where several of these deactivated here in Norway some 40+ years ago?
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05-31-2012, 12:27 PM | #10 |
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Will be interested to see if you have a twin there Steinar.
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You bought an artillery shell off a Russian stranger, stuck it in your backpack, took it to a pub, woke up the next day with the shell disassembled on your floor...Presumably done while you were..."under the influence"...Yes??? Wow...I'm going to print this out and post it on the squadron bulletin board... (I was thinking of sending it to the Darwin List people, but you're still alive, so it won't win any prizes)...
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Yes, you got the jist of it. well done....
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I could open my own Forum filled with all the stupid things I've done while drinking...
Not that that has anything to do with this thread...I'm just sayin'...
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Attachment 27593
Attachment 27594 Here is that shell I mention above. I know nothing about it or how it got there, just that it's an excelent counter weight
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Sorry!
Here are the pictures; Totaly off topic.. here is a man with a pipe and a welcome sign Two little birdies.. ..and the view
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Kind of a cool shell... Looks to be of pre WWII vintage by the shape of it.
When I was in the Navy, I once woke up in the back of a 1953 Cadillac hearse on a used car lot in downtown San Diego. The lot owner gave me a cinnamon roll and a cup of coffee after he found me. Don't ask...I don't remember how I got there. Or where I had been the night before.
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Almost a twin, same paint too. must have been in Norwegian use, I thought mine was brought in from the east somewhere.
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I found this in the Oslo Military museum this morning, looks an exact match to that one alanint found. No information on it except 1st world war Norwegian artillery shells.
Tho big one by the way is a tall boy bomb dropped on the Tirpitz, I added that as I thought it was so damn cool. |
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