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Selma Hunter

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Sumter Projectile(s)
« on: June 01, 2020, 06:33:07 AM »
Anybody know anything about these projectiles.  I'm thinking post-war.

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Re: Sumter Projectile(s)
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2020, 08:22:14 AM »
Years ago I found a bunch like this up here in the Washington DC area that were possibly Spanish American war stuff. After we found they weren’t civil war everyone lost interest but I kept digging, hey a shell is a shell. If I came across a 16 inch Iowa class shell I’d dig it!!
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CarlS

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Re: Sumter Projectile(s)
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2020, 11:14:50 PM »
Definitely 20th century shells.  Looks like the guy lives on a test range impact area!  One of the few times I prefer to dig incomplete shells.  Hard to tell which used black powder and which used TNT and other non-water soluble explosive charges.  They become very hard to disarm.  Plus some had spring loaded fuses in them.  Too dangerous.
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