WWII Practice Bomb

[romeo-1]

Picked this up today for 20 bucks...love stuff like this!

 

[tamrock]

Thats what is. Neat thing to find. It may work good as a down rigger weight
also?
http WWII AN MK-23 PRACTICE BOMB

 

[JimDon]

Cool. Luckily someone did not call the police as they would blown it up

 

[AlienLifeForm]

Awesome, I love inert ordnance - I would have been very happy to pick that little guy up.

 

[diggummup]

It's in great condition too!

 

[romeo-1]

Cool. Luckily someone did not call the police as they would blown it up

The seller actually took it to the RCMP to get clearance to sell it legally...no issues!

 

[bigcaddy64]

I'm happy this thread popped up! I have one of these little inert "bombs" in my storage, complete with the oversized signal charge inside. I've never actually tried looking it up but now i know what it is.

Ill get some pics today of it with the signal charge.

 

[bigcaddy64]

As promised, my WWII practice round with flare charge intact. I picked this up from the estate of a retired Air Force Colonel that lived in Burbank. It was in a box full of old German uniform patches, shell casings of all sizes and lots of war photos.

 

[trdking]

I'm happy this thread popped up! I have one of these little inert "bombs" in my storage, complete with the oversized signal charge inside. I've never actually tried looking it up but now i know what it is.

Ill get some pics today of it with the signal charge.

Please make sure it is actually a practice bomb? I get nervous when I hear persons saying they don't know what something is and then say it is inert. Just make sure thats all!
I took in a batch of old WW2 stuff and inherited a VERY live Grenade. The guy that sold it to me said that it was his grandfathers and he used to try to play with it as a kid. Come on People!

 

[JimDon]

I was watching aquachiggers Metal detecting video on YouTube and this guy starts banging a live shell they just pulled from a river with a rock. Kind of scary.

 

[bigcaddy64]

Please make sure it is actually a practice bomb? I get nervous when I hear persons saying they don't know what something is and then say it is inert. Just make sure thats all!
I took in a batch of old WW2 stuff and inherited a VERY live Grenade. The guy that sold it to me said that it was his grandfathers and he used to try to play with it as a kid. Come on People!

Its inert. I made sure to throw it on the ground, nose first, repeatedly before bringing it inside so its good to go.















If you look down the middle, its a smooth cylinder with just a firing pin assembly at the tip, held by that cotter pin. The shell gets loaded and upon impact, gravity makes it fire, sending a report from down range. Its completely harmless

 

[Ammoman]

Its inert. I made sure to throw it on the ground, nose first, repeatedly before bringing it inside so its good to go.















If you look down the middle, its a smooth cylinder with just a firing pin assembly at the tip, held by that cotter pin. The shell gets loaded and upon impact, gravity makes it fire, sending a report from down range. Its completely harmless

LOL reminds me of my first duty station. The Guys gave me a hammer and told me to ping every MK-82, 500 lb bomb on the nose to perform a dud check.

If you know anything about munitions, it was perfectly safe but still.....in the back of my brain i was not feeling the love.

 

[romeo-1]

Please make sure it is actually a practice bomb? I get nervous when I hear persons saying they don't know what something is and then say it is inert. Just make sure thats all!
I took in a batch of old WW2 stuff and inherited a VERY live Grenade. The guy that sold it to me said that it was his grandfathers and he used to try to play with it as a kid. Come on People!

Rest easy...the only harm my bomb could do is if I dropped it on my foot. Just a hollow cast iron shell.