I got a lot from a local scrap metal yard but I have also seen a number of auction website with shells for sale.
Can you list them? I have checked Gunbroker and ebay.
Does anyone know where I can get Inert Ordnance? Shells, Projectiles, etc.
Zero humor. About the dumbest thing I can imagine any soldier doing.Cool!
Maybe I should buy one and then put it under my platoon sergeant´s car. It would scare the living crap out of him! :lol:
In return I would be out of the army in 5 min.:sarc:
The danger being that inert ordnance is not always completely inert.
Seen here is a small but dangerous enough pile of Baratol that I removed out of a 1942 Mills grenade that had sat on someone's mantle piece for nearly 60 years. The detonator, time fuse and primer had been removed, but the explosive was intact. Baratol is a TNT based explosive, and is reasonably insensitive when kept in good condition, but there's no telling what happens to it over that period of time.
It burnt beautifully with a soft hot flame similar to that of sporting powder so I have no doubt that it still could have been quite energetic under the right circumstances. Even a low order detonation would have ruined the day for anyone warming their bum in front of the fire.
Something that old, A proper nudge from the mantle unto the floor might have been unpleasant.
Something else I thought I'd throw in on this thread, if your active duty, don't pick up unexploded ordnance off of a range- You'll be done almost as fast as the guy who joked about his Plt Sgt.
Visit the WW1 battlefields in France and Flanders, there's still tons of the stuff neatly stacked and just laying there, only problem is, its still live.
A young boy was stopped by customs in Dover a few years ago carrying a live grenade, mum and dad had a fit, the customs hall was cleared and bomb disposal called in. When asked where he had got it, he said it was sold by someone in a museum.
Its no joke, We have a house in Normandy, just a few kms from the beaches there are still some areas you don't want to walk around in because of landmines and other live ordinance.
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