WWII 50 Cal. Bullets

[dano91]

I found a practice range where millions of these were fired, during training for WWII.
I dug 108 in about 15 minutes, they are thick as thieves for thousands of yards.
1 pic is of a cleaned one cut in half, and one cleaned one scored to show thickness of the copper jacket.
About 10 cents of copper on each one. Maybe I should get a backhoe and a gravel separator, and clean house on recycling copper and steel? I think I could make $30 an hour just with an MD.
Dano & Yogi.

 

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[Kas]

Not a bad idea.
Looks like there's plenty of copper in them babies.
HH
Ken

 

[Stormtrooper154]

sounds like a great plan to make a little extra cash!

 

[julesjunk]

A great way to clean up the enviroment, recycle a non renewable metal source, AND make a little money. With a partner, I would think you could "clean up". One of you swing, while the other digs.
Regards,
Jules

 

[northeast hunter]

Last i remember you could get about .80 cents a pound for lead cotted with copper housing..

 

[Michigan Badger]

Hey dano91, as long as there isn't anything explosive you might just try selling these whole on ebay. Lots of people today collect WWII stuff. Maybe some millionare would like to decorate his bar with bullets?

Anyway, I'd give it a "shot."

Badger

 

[Skrimpy]

Are you in NY. I know of an old Navy Boot Camp in NY that is now a state park. It is probably a good place to look for rounds.

 

[Harry_Morant]

Great finds - you might want to take a soil sample though to check for lead content as a lot of ranges are heavily contaminated (especially if you've some young-uns at home).

I'm sure there's a market for WWII 50 cal slugs - good luck

 

[EDDE]

bring the 10 YO and a shovel dano
thats thinking outside the box

 

[watercolor]

Neat finds. . . I stopped by an army surplus store about a year back and saw a tray on the counter with a bunch of fired .50 rounds like you have. . . they wanted $3 each. I'll bet those would clean up real nice with copper polish. . . or maybe in a rock tumbler? Just be sure they're all inert. Maybe you could sell those wholesale to stores like that. Just a thought.

watercolor

 

[willie d]

Save some and make sort of display. Would a good conversation piece.

 

[Capefearsman]

I found alot around here but never thought about cutting one in half. Nice

 

[RelicRick]

Hey!

I just found a bunch of those myself on the beaches in Delaware. The locals told me they were from between WWI and WWII where a tugboat would pull a barge with targets on them for practice shooting. They just replenished these beaches with the sand from where these barges were fired at. Lucky me! Lucky you!!!

 

[privet12]

Just be careful if you start finding 30 mm rounds some of them are made out of depleted uranium cores in them. So don't be grinding on those mite not be healthy if you know what I mean.