Some Kind of Cartridge?

[proteus922]

What do you think this is? It's about 3 inches long by 3/8 inches in diameter. It is broken at the top and inside is a pointy thing. The bottom has letters that look like 'R A' and 'N' and '18'. I found this in my backyard of my 114 year old farm house. It is fairly heavy. I thought at first it was some sort of cartridge, but I'm not sure. Thanks in advance for your ideas. Deb

 

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[EccentricInTexas]

30-06 Springfield is what it looks like to me.

 

[Pointman]

The only time I have remotely seen something like that is when we get a misfeed on a machine gun and it jams the bullet up the shell casing, but generally it will not jam up as far as yours has. Usually the point on the bullet will be flattened. Plus when it jams like that it isn't in line with the firing pin to indent the primer. It almost looks like someone created that from a fired shell casing. Possibly someone had a misfire and then tried to cycle it back through and it rammed up the casing.

 

[fyrffytr1]

I think the letters on the headstamp are "NA". That could be Newton Arms company. Their centerfire ammo was produced by Remington Arms. Newton arms Company was in business from 1914-1930 though cartridges for their weapons were likely produced after that. We would need precise measurements including overall length and outer diameter of the case mouth to help Id your bullet unless someone here can go by the number on the headstamp.
If you can pull the bullet out of the cartridge and give us some pictures and measurements that would also help ID your cartidge.

 

[BosnMate]

Agree to all the above, the 18 probably means it was loaded in 1918. It's been fired, so someone has a pushed a bullet into the empty cartridge for some unknown reason. The cartridge might well have been hand loaded over several times, or a wildcat cartridge where the shooter was changing the bullet and sizing the case neck to a different caliber, and the re-sizing of the neck over and over ended up causing the damage. I see dents on the case that look just like the dents on some I loaded when I had too much lube in the re-sizing die.

 

[pistol-pete]

It's a 30-06, R A H 18, Remington Arms Hoboken, NJ. plant loaded in 1918

 

[MuckyBottles]

What do you think this is? It's about 3 inches long by 3/8 inches in diameter. It is broken at the top and inside is a pointy thing. The bottom has letters that look like 'R A' and 'N' and '18'. I found this in my backyard of my 114 year old farm house. It is fairly heavy. I thought at first it was some sort of cartridge, but I'm not sure. Thanks in advance for your ideas. Deb

It could be that the bullet was jammed in there to hide something..

 

[MuckyBottles]

We reversed Ma-Deuce spent casings to hold some November Juliet when the desert got cold at night..

 

[capsmith]

It's a 30-06, R A H 18, Remington Arms Hoboken, NJ. plant loaded in 1918

I thnk you have nailled this one .

 

[proteus922]

Just a little more information at the suggestion of fyrffytr1: The 'bullet' inside measures 18 mm long x 8 mm diameter; the cylinder measures 63 mm long by 12 mm diameter.

 

[proteus922]

It's a 30-06, R A H 18, Remington Arms Hoboken, NJ. plant loaded in 1918

Thanks!