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[browningautorifle]

What you could do is take it out and tape it to a stake and use a line to pull the pin. I'd just pull it and toss it around a tree or building corner so it blows on the other side, there can be shrapnel from the blasting cap. That is providing the striker is still cocked. Also the bobby trap switches you have contain live primers. Those are like a small rifle primer or small pistol mag primer, maybe shotgun primer depending on what exactly they are. Those can launch an anvil like a small projectile.

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[jjjxlr8]

What you could do is take it out and tape it to a stake and use a line to pull the pin. I'd just pull it and toss it around a tree or building corner so it blows on the other side, there can be shrapnel from the blasting cap. That is providing the striker is still cocked. Also the bobby trap switches you have contain live primers. Those are like a small rifle primer or small pistol mag primer, maybe shotgun primer depending on what exactly they are. Those can launch an anvil like a small projectile.

Thanks, Jim. I reload ammo and have some experience with primers. They are very powerful despite their small size. I think these are the 209 shotgun shell primers.

As far as the live fuse/detonator on the grenade, I don't plan on holding it and throwing like a normal grenade. It's old and I have no idea if the fuse will work properly, providing a delay. I think your idea of remotely pulling the pin is the best. I don't want to damage the grenade, though, and the fuse assembly will not unscrew easily by hand. Do you know if the detonator/blasting cap will damage the grenade body? I have no experience with these.

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I agree with Jim completely. I've seen a lot of de-milled ordinance and usually they leave it so that you can tell it's safe from a quick visual inspection. All of the inert grenades I've ever seen had the bottom cut off leaving a circular hole. If you unscrew the top they'll have a burnt fuse.

Please be careful and let us know.

The grenade with the live fuse/detonator does have the bottom removed (first picture above). The other one with the screw in the bottom doesn't have a live detonator, fuse, or primer. They appear to have been properly disabled on that one.

Thanks, guys!