Age of shell

[boojababy]

 

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[creskol]

LC stands for Lake City Ordnance Plant. Maybe a google search will help determine the year. Lots of stuff to read through. Good Luck!

 

[baspinall]

That's a blank as well. Crimped at top.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

A loaded misfire blank.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

It looks like a 30-06 which is odd, the 12 means 2012

 

[cheese]

Looks like a .556 to me. It's a blank round but it does look like it was fired and did not go off (mis-fire) like Back-of-the-boat says. Commonly used in 21 gun salutes.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Looks like a .556 to me. It's a blank round but it does look like it was fired and did not go off (mis-fire) like Back-of-the-boat says. Commonly used in 21 gun salutes.

Way too big for a 5.56 unless the OP has really small hands....

 

[boojababy]

My hands are average size.

 

[cheese]

My hands are average size.

I was thinking smaller hands tilting the shell closer to the camera and trying g to compare to my fat fingers. I agree then. I even took a pic of a. 556 blank held similarly to see how it looked. Definitely smaller even though my sausage fingers help to make it look smaller. You can see a Lake City 1953 30-06 shell in the background.