I bet my biggest "pellet" can beat your biggest "pellet"!
World War II 3 inch naval round and that is a USA quarter for scale.
I got the round from my grandfather who was a Marine EOD during WW II. I use it as a door and more than once it has caught a house guest's attention and makes for a conversation starter. No it does NOT have an explosive round in it, I had my Army EOD buddies inspect it just incase, but then it was 2000, so 50 plus years after the fact.
Like many EOD people I hear about from that era, my grandfather who was also a major gun nut, liked to bring "work home", so to speak. I distinctly remember after he died, going through his things and finding which was probably a fuse for a naval round. The "fuse" was made of brass, had dials on it with numbers you could set, which I was told in adulthood was probably a fuse for a naval round fired from a ship and went off after so many rotations of the round. The only other thing I remember was my grandmother freaking out and my grandfather's marine buddies came over to "clean house."
P.s. I remember a tutor I had as a kid to help me with reading who was the widow of a Vietnam era US Air Force pilot who had an anti-personnel bomb (I think they were called daisy cutters) it was in the in the living room! The bomb was to remind them of the evils of war! Pss I assume it was defused, but what does an 9 year old know other than it was COOL!
World War II 3 inch naval round and that is a USA quarter for scale.
I got the round from my grandfather who was a Marine EOD during WW II. I use it as a door and more than once it has caught a house guest's attention and makes for a conversation starter. No it does NOT have an explosive round in it, I had my Army EOD buddies inspect it just incase, but then it was 2000, so 50 plus years after the fact.
Like many EOD people I hear about from that era, my grandfather who was also a major gun nut, liked to bring "work home", so to speak. I distinctly remember after he died, going through his things and finding which was probably a fuse for a naval round. The "fuse" was made of brass, had dials on it with numbers you could set, which I was told in adulthood was probably a fuse for a naval round fired from a ship and went off after so many rotations of the round. The only other thing I remember was my grandmother freaking out and my grandfather's marine buddies came over to "clean house."
P.s. I remember a tutor I had as a kid to help me with reading who was the widow of a Vietnam era US Air Force pilot who had an anti-personnel bomb (I think they were called daisy cutters) it was in the in the living room! The bomb was to remind them of the evils of war! Pss I assume it was defused, but what does an 9 year old know other than it was COOL!
