Traveled 4 1/2 hours to find.....

[Nana40]

OK...Am on vacation this week....having a great time on the beach!!! After doing all the fun stuff one might do while on vacation, I finally got to go out and hunt last night! You have probably already guessed what the first thing I found was! Yea.....more of the same! How could this be possible! Is someone playing a cruel joke on me?! LOL! Anyway....it's really really big!!! Don't know why it would be on the beach Don't have a clue as to what caliber....Any guesses and or condolances?!?



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[surfrat96]

Nana, what beach did you hunt and for how long? I can't believe that's all you found. I mostly hunt the beaches here in So. Fl. and have never found a bullet. LOL!

Are you hunting wet or dry sand? Try going at low tide and hunt the water's edge, a lot less junk!

Hope you can give it another shot.

P.S. Easy diggin ain't it!!

HH 8) surfrat

 

[JakePhelps]

Enjoy your vacation nana

That thing looks like it was never shot, prolly a rifle round someone dropped on the beach for some reason or another...Iv found the little metal balls from shotguns on the beach...

 

[Nana40]

OH YEAH! Diggin is so easy here!!! You guys have easy diggin here!!! The bullet was the first thing I found and it was in dry sand....well most everything I found was in dry sand! Lots a bottle tops Two little cars and eleven cents!

Jake....this is the slug from the bullet! Not including the casing! I couldn't believe it either! It is very large!! And appears to be brass.....

 

[Getty]

Wow nana,you coulda stayed home for that!Does it have a hole thru the center of it?If so then its a bullet fishing weight.If not it is a non-typical,extremely large caliber.HH

 

[JakePhelps]

thats large?? thats the norm around here

 

[Bspacc]

Looks to be a 50 Cal machine gun

 

[Nana40]

This is nana40's son, just thought I would share some more pics. I am certain it is not a weight...but it does look like a .50 cal something. Take a look at this pics and tell me what you think.

 

[JakePhelps]

Hi nana40's son! Yep its definetly a bullet, and it has the markes where the casing was clamped onto the bullet, looking at the back end of the bullet it looks like gunpowder residue, emaning it would have been fired? on the beach? but then why is there no impact mark on the bullet? strange...

 

[Nana40]

IMHO if a bullet were fired into the water from a long distance it wouldn't do any damage to the bullet. Or, even if it hit sand I could see where the sand would slow the bullet down. But, like I said it would have to be from some distance more than likely. Anywho I am about to go ave more fun.

 

[kermit]

Nana,

Looks to me like it's a 50 cal. Should be from 250 to 400 gr. You can pick up a 50 cal rifle from any good gun dealer for around $2800.00 give or take not counting the scope. The ammo can be reloaded so someone could have had the bullet in a pocket to show it off. That round is used mostly by persons in the military.

Check out this link.

http://www.biggerhammer.net/barrett/fas/

This is what the rifle looks likes.............

 

[dudes2112]

If you have some verniers or calipers, you could measure it and get a rough estimation of the caliber, I would have to guess .50 cal as well. It doesn't look like that bullet was ever fired though, never seen one look anywhere near that good after being shot, including into water. Who knows though??

Dudes

 

[JakePhelps]

Cool site kermit. Maybe it was dropped and the case either fell off or corroded off....

 

[twister]

Still a awesome find nana Congrats

HH

Twister

 

[Tripod]

Yea, looks like a .50 cal. I used to pick those up by the hundreds out of the sand at an Army test range. They had all been fired and ALL looked just as "unused". The full metal jacket on them hardly even scratches when fired into sand.

 

[vic910]

Oh Nana!!! ROFL!!!!!! Maybe you can clean up all the nails for me too, LOL! Hope you have better finds now that you've got "fate" out of the way!

vicki

 

[Getty]

thats large?? thats the norm around here ?

50 cal is large jake.Noone is hunting with anything like that!

 

[JakePhelps]

I have found larger believe it or not

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

H: it is a standard Military .50 cal machine gun projectile.? Notice the angle of the ogive - front section of the projectile, and angle of the rear section for min air turbulence, particularily when the velocity dropped below the speed of sound -designed for looooong range.? It is .50 inch in diameter.

This particular projectie was" not" fired since there are no engravings on it from the rifling.

I would speculate that it was dropped ?? Prob. from WW-2 when they had posts on the Atlantic beaches. The brass or iron alloy? case has simply erroded way. The alloys of the case, brass or iron, along with the salt water would fom a natural battery/galvanic action which would accelerate this.

Side thing, this projectle type and calibre eliminated many Japanese, German, Veitnam, etc etc? personal.? etc,etc. as well as aricraft.

Jose de La Mancha? ( I tilt windmills )

 

[buudman]

nana still a good find. we all live for vacations yours is here so i hope you enjoy every minute of it.when i was down flordia detecting the beach i dug every solid signal an it surpised me the things that i got.plus you said it your self the digging is so easy.
bud