Test your knowledge on these large caliber (approx. half inch bullets) used in WW2 and some for many years afterAttachment 53029
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Test your knowledge on these large caliber (approx. half inch bullets) used in WW2 and some for many years afterAttachment 53029
Left to right, .55 Boyes, .50 Browning, 12.7 DSHK...
You got that really fast, years ago the 12,7x108mm was called the 51 cal Russian
Can you tell who manufactured this 12,7 mm cartridge by the headstamp ?Attachment 53030
Well, Kynoc, Frankfurt Arsenal and the Russian is a mystery as most of their markings are to me...factory number 64...and I can't find it. Has it been re-designated?
While testing a Nikon Coolpix camera, I took this photo of some British military cartridges over the past 100 years plus, should not be difficult to ID all these cartridges ?
The 12.7x108mm cartridge is Chinese ? I thinkAttachment 53044
577/450, 30-40 Krag, 7mm?, 303BR, 4.85, 7.62x51, 5.56
Just being a bit pedantic BAR and others, it's BOYS and not BoyEs.
Thanks Peter. I've never had a grip on that part...shot the gun though. Very passable...Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
Don't think the second one is a 30-40 Krag Jim, necks too short. It's a 303 but I'm not sure of the Mark. The tip looks a bit flat so maybe Mk.IV or V HP.
I sort of thought that too. It sort of looks like a Dum Dum round. Big 217 gr...
The second cartridge is a Mark II C K
The third cartridge is pre WW1
The 3rd one looks to be a .276 Enfield.
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Originally Posted by RCS
Yes. It's Factory 41 (China) year 1964.
Thank you Patrick, I know this 12.7mm came back from Viet Nam in the 60's
The third British cartridge is the 276 cal Enfield for the Pattern 13 rifle headstamp is R^L
also interesting (I should have taken a photo) is the 7,62x51mm headstamp is CAC 60 over L2A2 N
No.2's rim is not square like the 303 looks bevelled my guess is European round in @8mm pretty vague answer but heck whats wrong with being vague as I am well past 50ish
If you want a really big round get a look inside the Bovington tank museum they have one of Gustavs or Doras projectiles there cannot say if it is the 3 tonne or the 7 tonne but at 80 cm now that is a big projie.
Cripes only knows how many grains of powder to get those mothers going the 23 and 19 miles respectfully
Dora :
80 cm shell weighed 7 tons.
actual range was 51,000 yds....29 miles.
powder charge was 1 ton ( +/- 1/10 grain ) for 2,700 FPS.
Chris
One of Gustavs great achievements was at the siege of Sevastapol the shell penetrated a purported @90 feet of solid rock and destroyed a Russian ammunition dump, I also got the location of the 7 tonne shell wrong it is not at Bovington Tank Museum it is at the Imperial War Museum sorry guys for that.
I also used the metric measurement as that is the European standard and if your talking weights the discrepancy between the one you used tons emmagee1917 it can be rather alarming from my limited experience in 28 years of operating cranes example as follows,
Brittish ton or Imperial sometimes called the long ton = 2,240lbs
European 1 tonne = 2,240lbs
American short ton = 2,000lbs (so if you multiply this by 7 tonnes you are 1,680lbs short on your Imperial weight estimate very sad) and like the old LIMA crane I was on its load chart was in Short tons so if you were lifting 10 tonnes you had to be sure you could safely lift 22,400lbs not 20,000lbs (short ton) so there is a very short lesson on tons V's tonnes ende ;)