Possible grenade part found in woods

[hunterV3]

Found this in the middle of the woods a few years ago and meant to post it here. Came across it today and looked it up. I had a feeling of what it might be, and it looks like it went to a hand or smoke grenade. Just thought I would share because it was cool and you never know what you'll find out there! I'm thinking because the handle is broken off and what's left is not deteriorated, it was explosive and not smoke. HH

 

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[Kieth-Tx]

Cool find.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

The shaft of the pin is still in place. Could still have a functioning primer and ignition charge - or not. A lot of them came home as paperweights.

Can't tell if it was smoke or explosive (or CS gas) as it has never been "fired". Likely it was deactivated and tossed rather than being intact and allowed to disintegrate on it's own in the woods.

 

[hunterV3]

Thanks for all the input. The downward tube was empty, so I was reasonably sure any powder was burned or gone. As you can see it is now "De-Milled" and I trashed it. Didn't want it around the house if there was any danger (but didn't want to just toss it if it could be dangerous).

 

[Blind.In.Texas]

A blasting cap went into that tube. That blasting cap is what ignites the composition B in an M67 fragmentation DEvice.....looks like it came from an M67, but the CS gas DEvices we used also used the M67 heads.......besides........if it had a cap in it, the hammer would have told you

Glad you destoyed it instead of the other way around!!

 

[TxTim]

I find a lot of those fuses at an old WW1 camp (bottom left in this photo).
I throw them in a bucket!

 

[jpitt1970]

A buddy of mine was in the Merchant Marines. He brought the insert from a grenade home from Russia. Dumbass forgot about it & left it in his jacket pocket & put it through the washer & dryer.

For whatever reason, another buddy was in the laundry room & found it. Second dumbass pulled the pin "to see what would happen". The thing went off in his hand, causing major damage!!

 

[jpitt1970]

why would dumba** be deleted??

 

[trikikiwi]

Because

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Mike

 

[trikikiwi]

Actually, I'm not sure why

 

[mickk]

Down here until the early 80s you could buy inert grenades with base plates attached that you could remove if you wanted to play army. I didnt have the money to buy them when I was a kid which is a great shame as we would have stuffed penny bungers in em and lobbed em at each other when playing army. Would have gone down very well with the slug guns and been more exciting than dirt bombs.

Smart move to trash it, in the wrong hands, thats enough for a good bomb scare itself.