Some of my bigger gear

[browningautorifle]

The bottom was open and the inside of the shell is completely empty.

So, that's a base ejecting smoke of some kind...or could it be illumination?

106 RCL HEATFS

I remember when the ranges were covered with the TPT versions of these...

[Ovidio]

I’ll go to my parents in the near future, and check the thing. Now you got me curious...

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2Pdr No2 from my collection 303 Mk VII for scale driving band is a bit messy on one spot but it's an unfired projectile which is always nice to have.
Shell case is in pretty good nik also in my state these larger calibre rounds don't grow on trees nor do we have 2nd hand shops in abundance that sell this gear like the USA or the U.K.
I look at what available on gunbroker in the UK and go a bit green with envy the prices are a bit high but then again a huge selection.
I would certainly like to complete my English Nitro express collection one day.

[Ovidio]

Well...here I am, pouring ash on my head.
I mixed up two different things.
I called my dad and asked him.
He told me that shell in his house is a 120 mm or 4.7” shrapnell round, with timed fuse.
It went off and kicked out the base, without bursting.
It landed close to home and was retrieved by grandpa after the war.
He also had the other one, but gave it to the ordnance teams.
I’ll make pictures next time.

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105mm Leopard 1 HEAT practice round with the latter steel case the rarer one to have is the brass 105mm TK which I have in my collection just trying to procure a 105mm H.E for it but they are like the brass cases very hard if not impossible to obtain.
Pic #2 303 Mk VII round down bottom by the fins of the projectile for scale.

[browningautorifle]

the brass cases very hard if not impossible to obtain.

Sad I had two that I watched fired and decided not to bring with me on the posting. Then two more in a surplus store about five years back and one two months ago in a local shop. Sold now, but would have cost $300CDN to ship...if not more.

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20Pdr with the smoke projectile (Unfired but deloused) pretty nifty having an intact driving band as they are usually engraved with rifling or taken off as allot of WWII & WWI gear due to copper shortages.
The projectile itself is very long when shown next to the 20Pdr APDS projectile it's pretty hefty as well the 303 Mk VII round is for scale.
I don't know its burn time perhaps some artillery chap's or Tankers who operated the Centurion may know.
It is another one in my collection that I really like.

[browningautorifle]

I've had one of those since the mid '80s and missed an opportunity to get the brass a while back. It would have cost about $300CDN then. Shipping extra. I left behind the 155MM base ejecting smoke projectile, probably a good thing as it weighed probably 80 lbs empty.

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This is a 4" H.E projectile that was in my family before I was born and one of the few things I managed to end up with after mum & dad had passed.
It came into our family via my brother (Dec) when he was a teenager he went to a scrap yard that was located near the railway line just down from the Royal Perth Hospital how he managed to get it home I just don't know.
But he rode home with it precariously balanced in the front basket of his 28" push bike with my eldest sister riding her bike behind him!
It was our front door stopper, [When you could leave your doors open at night] for as long as I can remember it claimed many a visitors toes as they stubbed them on it when entering our house me included it has a solid base and had flat transport cap installed.

About 10 years ago I had a local machine shop dummy up a brass cap and fake driving band and just painted it up with no real reference to colouring except for the yellow band which I thought represented H.E.

Has /|\ [/|\] then B K underneath that it has N O followed by other markings as follows 4 IN 35Lb I B A.N F.A. M C 21 F S any clues on the lettering I thought the ANFA stood for Australian National Field Artillery could be wrong.

As a side note I used to train at home with it for free pistol when using my Drulov holding that shell straight out at arms length in the shooting stance to strengthen and train my upper body and arm strength with that hefty piece of kit I can assure you that my arm and that Drulov felt like a feather when shooting.
When I was home and only very young I also employed using it for arm curls but got into trouble for moving it from my dad I then just went to what Charles Atlas used dynamic tension that with playing allot of basketball all year round kept me in top form.

[browningautorifle]

Nice piece...the guy that I gave my 155mm to died some years later and no one has any idea what happened to his collection...gone.