Unusual find from this past Sat. morning...

[Burning Metal]

I found these this past Sat. while doing my usual Sat. morning beach detecting routine. None of the jewelry is anything good...not real silver or gold. Thought it was unusual to find a pair of earrings though...they were about 15 feet from each other. I usually see hardly anyone else on the beach detecting when I'm there, but this Sat. I saw 3 people in the water with detectors and 3 more on the dry sand! The unusual find is the large bullet...this is the first time I've ever heard about any ordnance being found on this beach! An older lady that was there said that this beach was used as a target range during WWII, I've lived in the area for over 20 yrs and had never heard that before...

 

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[werleibr]

love the shells. The purple and white scallop is a beaut.

 

[Burning Metal]

love the shells. The purple and white scallop is a beaut.

Thanks...I always look for cool shells down here while beach detecting. Love the seashells here in Florida!

 

[chukers]

That looks like a 20MM round... I used to work on the F-15 Eagle and that what it shoots!

Chukers

 

[daroofa]

That looks like a 20MM round... I used to work on the F-15 Eagle and that what it shoots!

Chukers

I was thinking .50 cal, but could be wrong. BM, check the headstamp as there should be some letters and numbers which would tell you when/where it was made.

 

[watercolor]

Cool stuff!

The bullet is a .50-caliber machinegun round. . . it's most likely a "live" round with gunpowder still in the casing. If you don't want it around the house, give the police a call and they'll take care of disposing of it.

(Just don't tell them you found it metal detecting )

 

[{Sentinel}]

Some really nice shells you have there. We have a place called shell island up in the Gulf off of Panama City that we go to get huge shells and Sand dollars I'd say that is probably a .50 Cal shell you have. I find them all over here in Virginia left over from WWII. And being that was the favorite round for their equipment back then and that Florida was a place that they loved using for target practice, its a good chance it could be left over from WWII. There's an easy way to find out. If you could, read me the number off of the bottom of the shell and tell the date it was made.

 

[chukers]

I was going by memory... Its been 20 years...

I looked the 50 cal and the 20MM and you can see the difference now I see them both...
Compared to the 50 caliber slug the 20mm is much bigger

The pics show the differences... good IDs