Not often seen

[browningautorifle]

A story I read somewhere

I'd read another about a Jap sniper taking Aussies at leisure until a digger decided to use a .55 to end it. He shot through the tree sheltering the sniper...

Here are my three. Left is a solid brass DP (drill) round. Only one I've ever seen and came to me in a classic "Shoebox of stuff". Center is a Kynoch '43 of which we've seen so many. Right is a Dominion Arsenal '42 drill round, common enough. I had no idea these were worth so much now...

[30Three]

Maybe you guy's can recognise this round. It's 1" diameter ogive, copper jacket lead core.
Appears to be 1940 date. I believe it's a 25mm Hotchkiss anti tank round.

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Note: the tape is only there to stop the ogive dropping inside the case when on display!

[30Three]

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I found this on Wikipedia. Caption states: The British Army in France 1939 Men of the 2nd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers training on a French 25mm SA 34 anti-tank gun, 4 November 1939.

[browningautorifle]

Maybe you guy's can recognise this round

25x194/(193) rimmed? Here's some info that might help... https://forum.cartridgecollectors.or...gun-id/35668/6

https://forum.cartridgecollectors.or...itank-gun/6300

[browningautorifle]

Here's one for sale... Cannon Ammunition 13 - 20 mm

Nice piece...

[CINDERS]

I agree it being an 25mm Hotckkiss A/T round.

Shell: 25 × 193.5 mm R, AP
Crew: 4
Caliber: 25 mm (0.98 in)
Barrel length: 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) 72 caliber

CN = Unknown Factory, France
LM = Cartoucherie du Mans, Le Mans, France

[30Three]

Thanks; yes that confirms what I thought it might be. It looks like an overgrown .303 round!

So there's one at 125 pounds 175 for the other one in the add. I guess I got a bargain! Think I paid 6 Euros in 2019.

[browningautorifle]

To me the magic is it being a live loaded cartridge. I know that's not possible in some places, this one too if you don't have a firearms license. I have two 13mm WW1 anti armor rifle cartridges and one is factory correct, one has no powder. the live one is far more valuable to me. Still, I'd take one like yours out of comparative rarity. You never see them here.

[RCS]

I am certain that I must have posted these photos before, but about five years ago, i made two dummy cartridges. The first was the German 7,92x94mm anti tank round that had the small pellet of tear gas in the bullet. Once the bullet went through the armor, the tear gas would force the crew to abandon the tank (which did not work out in actual combat) This cartridge was the 13mm German anti tank cartridge made by necking it down to 7,92mm and rimless.

The second cartridge that I made was the Polish 7,92x107mm which had a 225 gr bullet at 4180 fps. It was fired in the Polish bolt action rifle KB wz 35.
Photo: 7,92x57, 7,92x107 and 7,92x94
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[CINDERS]

Overbore or what I bet there was plenty of throat wear running those hot rounds.
Nice ones though RCS.