BIG bullet at the beach and i mean BIG

[MackDigger]

So My first time detecting at the beach and thanks to fellow Tnet members I got my pro ground balanced and started swinging. I got the usual stuff a hot wheels truck a fake gold (I think) Capitol A pendent thing and some clad (two late 60s go figure) but the one wild card was this HUGE bullet about 8inchs down in the wet sand. It's a monster and I have no clue how it got here but it's pretty cool. Any idea what gun could shoot this thing?!? Or how old it might be? Either way had a great time and will be back at it tomorrow.

 

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[Jim in Idaho]

Old military .50 caliber casing...made in 1943. Maybe fired from an aircraft, though they put .50's on just about everything. I find a few of them on our local desert, which was an aircraft firing range during war 2.
Jim

 

[jewelerguy]

yep, what Jim said

 

[DigginDownUnder]

It's amazing where those things turn up.



2nd from left is a US .50 bmg bullet. I found it on my farm in Australia, no where near a military base.

 

[MackDigger]

Old military .50 caliber casing...made in 1943. Maybe fired from an aircraft, though they put .50's on just about everything. I find a few of them on our local desert, which was an aircraft firing range during war 2. Jim

Awesome, so it's ww2 then? What would it be doing in ocean city MD hmm. Is it live? Can it hurt me? Lol seriously though I don't find many bullets and the ones I do look nothing like this.

 

[gwdigger]

Yep. Aircraft. I was in a field on the atlantic coast of delaware some years ago and started digging those right and left. All within a short distance of the look out towers from WWII. They were littered across a much older homesite.

 

[vabuckhunter]

Mackdigger where did you find the bullet? I found a 50 cal bullet like that last year in Nags Head North Carolina while on vacation.

 

[vabuckhunter]

Oops nevermind I see where you found it.