✅ SOLVED Bullet shell with nylon threads inside?

[Nick79]

Hi all, anyone seen this before? I can't figure it out!

 

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[hollARDog]

Auto-Bore Cleaner 😁🤘

 

[Red-Coat]

Auto-Bore Cleaner 😁🤘

Could you show us a picture of such a cleaner? Never seen one.

I'm no ammo expert, but those look like cordite filaments to me... the charge for the cartridge.


Credit: Forrest H. Barfield, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

 

[Retired Sarge]

Could you show us a picture of such a cleaner? Never seen one.

I'm no ammo expert, but those look like cordite filaments to me... the charge for the cartridge.

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That was my first thought also (Cordite)....

Obviously it doesn't appeared to have been fire. Can the OP clean up the primer end of the shell and read any of the head stamps? Curios as to whether it's a 50 cal or some other large round.

 

[Nick79]

That was my first thought also (Cordite)....

Obviously it doesn't appeared to have been fire. Can the OP clean up the primer end of the shell and read any of the head stamps? Curios as to whether it's a 50 cal or some other large round.

That was my first thought also (Cordite)....

Obviously it doesn't appeared to have been fire. Can the OP clean up the primer end of the shell and read any of the head stamps? Curios as to whether it's a 50 cal or some other large round.

Its probably a 30-06 or similar. No headstamp, thanks

 

[hollARDog]

Could you show us a picture of such a cleaner? Never seen one.

I'm no ammo expert, but those look like cordite filaments to me... the charge for the cartridge.

View attachment 2078838
Credit: Forrest H. Barfield, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Sorry buddy, I was just making a joke 🤗

 

[Jack873]

The British used Cordite as a propellant.
Looks like a rimmed cartridge. British .303

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Perhaps we can change this to IDENTIFIED ... but do tell us about how you aquired it and how a strand burns ?

 

[Nick79]

Perhaps we can change this to IDENTIFIED ... but do tell us about how you aquired it and how a strand burns ?

...I got it in my Cracker Jack box

 

[hollARDog]

Not in Cali 🤣😂🤣

 

[Red-Coat]

Perhaps we can change this to IDENTIFIED ... but do tell us about how you aquired it and how a strand burns ?

Safety precautions needed, just in case, but a single unenclosed filament should burn like this (if it hasn't deteriorated):

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/63/Burning_Cordite.webm/Burning_Cordite.webm.720p.vp9.webm

 

[pistol-pete]

British .303 case end eroded or cut off. remains of cordite powder sticking out.
They were all the same length hence looking like a brush. They used cordite from late 1800's through ww2. and beyond.