Someone Had A Close Call

I thought that one had been debunked, no rifling marks on the struck bullet?

I seem to remember reading that on another thread some time ago

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Originally Posted by user1

Another collision from the Gallipoli campaign https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...f07f1c69-1.jpg

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One with rifling marks, and one without. Not a mid air collision as many on the internet have previously suggested. I think I have seen that particular bullet collision in the Gallipoli Museum in Turkey if I remember correctly.

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Originally Posted by boltaction

That is very cool! Wonder if the bullet was nearly spent or it it passed through another clip first? I wouldn't have thought one cartridge would stop a close range bullet...

Ed

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I thought the same thing. Charges are carried in rows in Pattern 1908 pouches. Same goes for bandoleers.

The photo in post #4 is from the first world war. There is a copy of that in "le Mirroir", (with french wording) a French newspaper from that period that I have in my bookshelf.

I have an Edwardian penny [coin] transfixed with an 8mm Mauser bullet which I am sure has been made up as a souvenir. Call me a cynic, but I am just the tiniest bit suspicious about the two bullets shown, which have a similar "look" to mine.

303,
Nothing like a good old Chinese cable tie to keep it all together :madsmile:

It wasn't a close call if the bullet passed through the poor sod from the back before lodging in the charger carried in the pouch on his front!

A fellow I bought a Carcano carbine from tried and tried to sell me a Walther PP that had been shot in the slide with something powerful....interesting piece but it wasn't any good to me.

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Originally Posted by Havenot

A fellow I bought a Carcano carbine from tried and tried to sell me a Walther PP that had been shot in the slide with something powerful....interesting piece but it wasn't any good to me.

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I would have bought that in a real hurry! Sounds really cool.

And so ad infinitum...