Cartridge collecting.

[CINDERS]

A cartridge case everyone should have !

This case is from the 800mm Gustav cannon the largest ever built capable of firing a 4.8 tonne & 7 tonne projectile used in the siege of Sevastopol in WWII.
Weighed over 1,350 tonnes took a veritable army of men and flak batteries with fighter cover to operate.

For scale my wife is 5' 8" tall it is not a faker as it had the primer (Fired) present it's a whopper of a case.

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[Timothy-R]

A cartridge case everyone should have !.

Wonder if Lee has a factory crimp die for this one

[Aragorn243]

It looks like she could sleep in that thing.

[72 usmc]

So I wonder how much shipping would be? Thanks for posting. Takes the term huge to a new level. Like collecting practice bombs--you need some space.

[limpetmine]

I recall reading about the Siege, and that railroad gun struck the fortress with one shell, and it entered from the roof and exited the basement, through 8-10 floors of stone. All in all, these huge guns were a waste of manpower and materials.

[CINDERS]

It hit a Russian ammunition dump passing through 90' of rock to destroy it.