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It looks like we're all busy today

By The Armorer on December 15, 2008 | | Comments (16)
Dusty, Kat, Bill, me...  plus, I got caught in a time crunch this morning and didn't get the pics uploaded for yesterday's whatziss answer, so that will have to wait.  Perhaps I'll get home for lunch.

So here's a forensic challenge for you geek firearms types.

Here's a shot of two fired cartridges.

What do you think the story is?  [Update: I should add that more than one story is possible, but the mostly likely ones are all variations on a theme, so constructive credit will be awarded.]


So, what's the story?
 
For those of you who whine about the pics being too small, no context, etc - here's a larger version.

H/t, SezaGeoff from Down Under.

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By Tomcatshanger on December 15, 2008 9:42 AM

Star Crimp .308 blank fired in a 30.06?

 
By Pogue on December 15, 2008 9:43 AM
Well, my guess is the one on the right started life as a .308 Winchester (or 7.62mm NATO) and was fired in a Navy Garand that had the chamber insert in the .30-06 barrel it was issued with.  The inserts had the nasty habit of ejecting with the brass.  Perhaps the attached to the case on the left?
 
By Matt Maynard on December 15, 2008 9:58 AM
7.62 NATO fired in a Garand.
 
By Terrapod on December 15, 2008 10:16 AM
7.62X51 fired in 30.06 chamber would be my guess, pity you did not place a metric or inch scale next to them....
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 15, 2008 10:23 AM
Well, I'll help you there, Terrapod, since everybody is defaulting to the 7.62x51/.308 Winchester anyway...  the round on the left is a .308 Winchester.
 
By Eagle 1 on December 15, 2008 11:57 AM
Yeah, I seem to remember reading a story about a guy shooting the National Matches at Camp Perry, was shooting both a .308 and an -06 Garand in different matches and discovered to his horror when he was policing his brass that he was the proud owner of what now appeared to be .45-70 Govt brass. Oops! Didn't help his scores either!

Eagle 1
 
By Flock of One on December 15, 2008 1:57 PM
Yeah, I'll go with .308 in an '06 chamber.  End of the cartridge is tapering just at the point the .30-06 would.
 
By WirelessGuy on December 15, 2008 2:23 PM
Well, sure looks like a 308 FIRED in a 45-70 to me!  Though, surprized that the case isn't split or something.
 
By Martin Morehouse on December 15, 2008 3:53 PM
Funny, when I do that I always get neck splits in the ex-308 brass. I think this may be something else.
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 15, 2008 4:01 PM

When that happens, Martin, are you shooting virgin brass or reloads?

 
By John of Argghhh! on December 15, 2008 4:05 PM
And, I would wonder, too - military or commercial ammo?
 
By Josh on December 15, 2008 6:45 PM
See, I saw that and my first thought was .308-based wildcat round...although upon closer inspection, the taper at the very very end probably rules that out...
 
By AW1 Tim on December 15, 2008 7:34 PM
Maybe it's for the blank cartridge the Navy uses with the M-14 line gun.

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2008/03/26/m14-with-shot-line-adapter/
 
By Terrapod on December 16, 2008 2:11 PM
Well, you all have me on the hook now..... so what exactly is it that produced the shell on the right? :-))
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 16, 2008 3:10 PM
T-pod - I had so much stuff up today already, I'm saving the reveal for tomorrow.