Market for .50 bullets?

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My other hobby is metal detecting. What is currently the regional Boy Scout camp use to be used for a gunnery range during WWII..so..whenever I'm out there "swinging" you can't help but dig up a half doz or so .50 bullets. Fortunately, the dirt if very soft in the area and most bullets are in very good shape for being in the ground all these years. Does anyone buy "already fired" bullets? I've thrown them in a tumbler and they clean up very nicely...just wondering...

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If you decide to drill them for key chains, be aware that some of them very likely were Tracer bullets.

And some of those may be duds still loaded with trace element.

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Tracers are easy to tell from ball or AP as they have a HUGE cavity in the back, the ones in the picture are not tracers.
 
Just say'n, if there is .50 ball in the ground, there is going to be .50 Tracers in the ground too.

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There are also probably some armor piercing rounds in there. The hardened steel cores make great center punches.

I mounted one in a block of steel, with the pointed end up, and it works great for taking the dents out of case mouths before I drop them in the tumbler.

There are lots of uses for those steel cores, and I'd be lost without the ones I use on my bench almost every day.

Hope this helps.

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There are also probably some armor piercing rounds in there. The hardened steel cores make great center punches.
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Good call! My father had one on his workbench when I was a kid.

It should also be noted that the FMJ's have steel cores as well. They're just different from the AP's.
 
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