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Apparently my blogging jones is wandering aimlessly in the void...

By The Armorer on July 12, 2004 | | Comments (9) | TrackBacks (1)

...and I'm stuck with nothing to say. Politics has just gotten painful. Iraq is going better than the media will tell us, but there's no telling some people.

I'm not getting good jokes or juicy stuff in email - or the new classification regime has overclassified everything into non-usability.

So I'm stuck, as Homebru puts it, "Posting pictures of rusty bits of metal and saying "What's this?""

Guilty.

Some of you guys actually play the game, and it's kinda fun seeing how peoples minds work on the the problem.

Homebru didn't even come by, near as I can tell, for his special one. And no one tried guessing what the rusty gun in a field was... (it was a 20mm from a Colorado Air Guard F-100 fighter that crashed on Mt. Cirrus in the Rockies in 1967, that was re-visited in 1996. Sounds like a fun hike, actually). Homebru's challenge was, of course, a red herring. It was a picture of farm disks from Jacob Rose's website, here. Jacob takes some nice pictures.

So, my Muse having deserted me, I'm left to posting pics again.

This time at least, it ain't rusty.

Any guesses?

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By Boquisucio on July 12, 2004 6:57 PM
That looks like a bear-nekkid lead core. From my vantage point 'tis hard to gauge the caliber. That background looks like pig-skin. Thus, WAGgin' from its grain it looks like that of a plain vanilla 7.62mm Ball: M-80
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on July 12, 2004 9:29 PM
How about the 7.62mm penetrator from a .50cal SLAP round? (Not a WAG; a SWAG!) By the way, re the F-100 loose cannon, I wanted to go for the 30mm cannon from a CZ M53/59, but the vegetation background didn't fit. Cheers JMH
 
By Gunner on July 12, 2004 9:39 PM
WAG here. Part of an artilliarymans tool kit for working with maps. The tip of one of their measuring instruments. Does not look like a submunition but I could be wrong. I thought the wrecked item could have been an old 37mm Jap gun, but the image was rusty and I could not see the end of the barrel to proove it was a barrel and not something else.
 
By Gunner on July 12, 2004 9:41 PM
As for feeling like you are falling back on old pictures don't. The talk here is good, but the old pictures was what brought us here. Maybe finding your roots is a good thing.
 
By John of Argghhh! on July 13, 2004 6:14 AM
Gunner - that's an excellent guess, and is just the kind of out of the box thinking that makes doing this fun (for me, anyway). It wrong, but it does show how getting a group of people together to do some tasks can be useful! As for the rusty gun post, I really didn't expect anyone to get that one, it was just there snarking homebru's snark about rusty bits of metal - kinda showing what I could do if I really put my mind to it!
 
By Madfish Willie on July 13, 2004 9:27 AM
For some reason, pics in the posts on your site and Beth's site are not showing up on by box... it may only be a problem with my video driver...but I thought I'd let you know.
 
By Boquisucio on July 13, 2004 6:18 PM
JMH: My first SWAG (I humbly stand corrected), was that of a penetrator(aka "Little Widow-makers"). But on closer look - and assuming that it is a penetrator - its ogival stirations would make the projectile way unbalanced. The little imperfections in its ogive would cause a shifting center of gravity as the projectile spins itself down range. Then again, it could be a Pakistani Penetrator... but I digress. Steel is unyielding. When subjected to the drawing press, the copper jacket would be the one to mould itself to the penetrator and not the other way around. On the other hand, a lead core would be the one to mould itself to the copper jacket. These stirations would smash themselves against the back-face of the copper jacket: thus, conforming itself into centered balance. That is a long explanation for my rationale behind my SWAG. In regards to the hypothesis of a .50 Cal. SLAP, I rotundly disagree. That hasn't the vaguest shape of a Sabot. As far as the exact type of lead core that it may be, (either M-193 5.56mm, M-80 7.62mm or .50 Cal. M-2), I defer to the erudite expertise of the Master of this Keep. And if it isn't a lead core...I will gladly have a chuckle: being thoroughly satisfied by this small piece of Ammo/Weapon P0rn. you press the projectileThe Stirations would not give under the as the drawing press would not
 
By GEBIV on July 13, 2004 9:19 PM
Gee, it looks like a piece of mechanical pencil lead sitting on the carpet to me.
 
By C. A. BUNKER on December 22, 2004 1:37 PM
NOTICE THE TIP HAS BEEN GROUND,SO IT COULD NOT RATIONALLY BE LEAD. SURELY IT IS THE TUNGSTEN CARBIDE CORE, AND A NICE ONE, OF AN ARMOR-PIERCING ROUND, PROBABLY A .762. AND IT'S NOT stirations FOR CHRIST'S SAKE.
 
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