How do I sell a live flare?

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By all means he should call and ask

If you ever want to launch flares for training it requires some phone calls to local agencies (mostly as a courtesy) letting them know when you start and finish and where you are lighting the stuff off. If you are near or on the water you will also have to make security broadcasts on VHF-FM so that other mariners don't start calling in flare sightings. Call your local CG station for some advice on how to do this.

Jeremy, I would have posted that link but I'm not sure that the Auxilliary would take a flare made in 1947! But you are absolutely correct.

Taurus66 whether you agree with me or not I have given some solid advice here and I never said he should launch them over a populated area. My advice was based on 27 years of experience on the water, 22 of it in the military.
 
answerguy said:
I think the fellow that posted that advice knew that the clock was running out for the annual award on this website for "Worst Advice of the Year".





A long time tenant moved out, leaving it behind. By long term I mean a 60 year long tenancy.
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I think that would be why the can said "July 47" on it. Think they are really over 50 years old?
 
I think when it comes to things maritime, the advice of a Chief Bosun in the USCG is about as good as you are going to get. I second the advice to call the local LEO or Fire Department and ask their advice. Several years ago, the local EOD detachments here (at Ft. Lewis and NAS Whidbey) would take expired marine pyrotechnics and use them in training scenarios or would otherwise dispose of them. Unfortunately, they no longer do this since some idiot also enclosed a jar of crystallized picric acid in a flare box. He said that he was cleaning out his boatshed and just put everything into an empty box. It is a wonder that he did not spontaneously detonate on the drive to Ft. Lewis.
 
Honestly if you called the local fire dept Im 99 percent sure they would be able to assist you. This is what I would honestly do first above all else. I do not live near the water so donating them to an organization nearby is probably pointless because I doubt there is any organization nearby.

FWIW it would be interesting to see if they actually did light up. That would be the kid in me still, haha, God knows as a kid I did some stupid ???? on many a 4th or the 1st with firecrackers. These days like tommrow Im just gonna play it low key and do probably nothing.

Play it safe, just like you would with firearms and do the right thing. Call at least one local authority first.
 
A couple of questions come to mind here.

1. Is this a sealed can?
2. If the can is open, do the flares look like giant shotgun shells, ie. about 1 1/2" in diameter and
about 8 inches long? If the answer to this question is "yes", they are probably 37mm flares for
aircraft signaling or ground signaling.

IIRC Kilgore was a supplier of flares for the military for a long time. I have a(military) aircraft flare kit with the pistol and flares in a fiberboard box about 10"X8"X4". The flares are 4 to 8 inches long and 37mm in diameter.

If you want to sell the can and contents, PM me and we can probably work out a fair price. Re-enactors use them also occasionally
 
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