Bullet and Shell Civil War Projectiles Forum
Relic Discussion => Artillery => Topic started by: emike123 on February 25, 2017, 10:20:24 AM
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Jack Melton gave me this but didn't know what it was. When I got it the sabot was off but I squeezed it back on.
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Looks like a postwar modification of a Stafford (but the sabot is shorter than a Stafford), or a Eureka (short sabot like this, but Eureka's disc-sabot did not use a bolt for sabot attachment).
Mike, did you shoot any photos of the sabot's internal side, or the now-hidden lead base?
Also, does the fuze unscrew? Or is this shell still "live"? The fuze appears to be an iron-anvil percussion. Is that what it is?
Regards,
Pete
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Thanks Pete. Good to see you active on the forum. The shell is open to through that bottom hole all the way and empty. I was thinking it might have had a base fuse in addition to the iron anvil cap. I cannot easily pull the sabot back off -- just a fraction -- but perhaps you can see the small slots in the shell body the lead ring slid into.
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Note: I modified this post only to add some info.
Thanks for the additional photo. It shows a triangular slot at the brass sabot's upper rim. The only time I've seen one shaped like that is on the Arick/Eureka exploded shell-base-&-sabot shown in the Dickey-&-George 1993 Edition book. This would seem to confirm that the mystery shell is a relative of Arick's "Eureka" projectile.
Also, note that the mystery sabot and the Arick/Eureka sabot appear to be exactly the same size.
See the photo below.
Regards,
Pete