todays beach finds

[william holmes]

here is all the stuff i found down the beach this morning

[diverdoug]

nice finds

[Barnet]

Cough, splutter. Is that a couple of live rounds ?

If so please take a look at this post in Military Ordnance

http://www.metaldetectingforum.co.uk/vi ... 61&t=10472" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[cockneyred1970]

nice

[william holmes]

no their not live ive just put them back togeather if you look close enough you can see the rifeling grooves on the bullets

[WhiteHunter]

Nice finds, there all nice and shinny. the live 50cal are pretty safe to be honset so i wouldn't worrie if you find one just pull the head, spray WD40 down the end where the primer sits and leave it for 24. It will be 100% safe afterwards.


John

[william holmes]

thanks for that useful tip

[Lyon1986]

nice finds pal good condition too

[fishy]

Cleaned up nice B-)

Is that a sea shell?

[william holmes]

yeah but the strange thing about it is its made of lead verry odd

[fishy]

Whats the ring thing?

[william holmes]

That's a copper drive band off a 20 mm projectile

[fishy]

That's a copper drive band off a 20 mm projectile

Ah ha. I have some of those.

After seeing your bullets ive just been outside and tried another way of cleaning mine.
Used a brass wire wheel on my bench grinder B-) B-) B-)

I didnt know they could get that shiny, normally use Cillit Bang

Glad I saw your post.

[william holmes]

The more shiny the better B-)
I dip them in acid then I clean and buff them up with a verry fine wire brush on my demel as you can see it does a verry good job

[william holmes]

You'll get em back with crayons as projectiles