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Guybrush · Post by **Guybrush** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 5:41 pm

Found this earlier on the beach. I'm not really au fait with ordnance but the tip looked interesting. It was next to another much larger shell which I'll also post in a mo. Any ideas on age/type?

pippy96 · Post by **pippy96** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 5:52 pm

it looks like a 7.62 NATO blank

Pops · Post by **Pops** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:14 pm

I concur with Pippy. Be warned, it looks not to have been fired...

Guybrush · Post by **Guybrush** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:52 pm

Oh dear a live round you think? I'll give the local police a call tomorrow then thanks for the heads up.

pippy96 wrote:it looks like a 7.62 NATO blank

Thanks for the ID. Any idea of the age? It was in the same hole as an anti-aircraft shell from the second world war presumably.

stargazer · Post by **stargazer** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:56 pm

It's a blank round. 100%. Probably 7.62

Neil&Julie · Post by **Neil&Julie** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 8:10 am

Im going to say 5.56mm blank going by the size next to the ring pull!
Looks live too, reasonably safe in its current condition!

If it is a NATO round then the 7.62mm came in around 1955 and the 5.56mm came in about 10 years later around 1965, these are the same size as the civilian counterpart .308 and .223 respectively.

I very much doubt this is a WW2 blank unless it is a .30-06 American issue.

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