- Mar 30, 2020
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Living and detecting in a rural wooded NE US coastal region I find lots of interesting ballistics from .75 ball to all brass 12 gauge shotgun shells to modern rounds and just about everything in between. Today I found this round and it's intriguing. I know that it is a damaged live round produced in 1943 by the Twin Cities Ordinance Plant operated by the Federal Cartridge Company (1941-45). It was like seeing a ghost for me because during the early 1980's I worked as a professional archaeologist on some very large military bases in the Mojave Desert of Southern Cal. I was briefed more than once by US Army Ordinance Officers as there was plenty of live ammo laying on desert floor. Live rounds dating back to pre-WWII can be tricky as the powder becomes unstable when baking in the desert sun.
This was an isolated find in the forest floor of a hill slope, buried nose down at a 3-4"depth I normally associate with 50+ year old artifacts. It is live but looks as though it jammed. Not an area where I expect to see someone lugging a large automatic rifle into the woods. Who knows for certain, but I wonder if it is a jammed Air Force round ejection cleared at altitude from live practice along the eastern tip of Long Island. During WWII we had a very active coastal defence network.
This was an isolated find in the forest floor of a hill slope, buried nose down at a 3-4"depth I normally associate with 50+ year old artifacts. It is live but looks as though it jammed. Not an area where I expect to see someone lugging a large automatic rifle into the woods. Who knows for certain, but I wonder if it is a jammed Air Force round ejection cleared at altitude from live practice along the eastern tip of Long Island. During WWII we had a very active coastal defence network.
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