Picking up expended ordanance

[rondog]

Digging up this old thread because I just found this photo. This isn't the projectile that we used as a doorstop all those years, but it's the closest photo I've found to what it looked like! Minus the black paint, brass casing, and Danielle of course.

 

[Field Tester]

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loc...enance-Incident-Camp-Pendleton-231808091.html

Handling explosives is always a dangerous thing, even for the pros.
God Bless them.

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

Every time it rains I find .30-06 shell casings from WWII down at my sisters which must have been part of Camp Blanding.

 

[Musket44]

Hey Plateshooter,

When did you go through Indianhead?

Musket
Class 28SN (Mid-April '68 -- Aug '68)

 

[alsaqr]

The M534 base fuze was used in the 105mm tank gun HEP round (M60 tank).

alsaqr:
Indian Head class of 17 July, 1959.

 

[Queen_of_Thunder]

Rule of thumb.
If you want to keep your thumbs and other body parts you will leave ordinance on the ground ,without you touching it and wait for the proper authorities to showup.

 

[Jim K]

On the lighter side, I once posted that disintegrating link belts were originally required for use with aircraft guns so that an empty belt wouldn't get into some place where it shouldn't be. The link belt would come apart and the links would be dropped out of the plane.

The next poster was concerned that those falling links might hurt someone on the ground.

Jim

 

[xfyrfiter]

I used to live in Roswell NM, the former home of Walker Air Base. The area East of town up on the caprock was a military practice bomb and firing range, Literally tons of exploded and unexploded bombs and shells from .50 cal up to 105 mm, many practice bombs of all sizes and shapes . Look but don't touch on anything above .50.

 

[dagger dog]

Living near Ft. Knox KY we hunted and fished the reservation when opened, you had to have a pass and obey the rules, there was ordinance from 30 cal. to 155 MM laying every where, and every thing was treated as live, the impact areas were off limits but not all ordinance fell in the impact areas.

Worked around the Ft Indiantown Gap PA area in the 70's, the trails were open to off road vehicles, same thing there, you couldn't go anywhere without finding live ordinance, if a grunt got tired of lugging a full can of linked 30 cal and he'd pitch it in the ditch, found parachute flares that didn't pop hanging in the trees, impact craters that you could tell that didn't go off, shrapnel from air bursts.

If you touched it, it could possibly be the last thing those fingers touched !