Can Anyone Tell Me Where These Came From

[Robert1968]

Hi chaps


The wife got me cleaning and well I thought where best to clean than the man cave.


Anyways clearing out a box of oddities I found this I don't think they are live ( I think I got it from an old car boot sale years ago


I'm not sure what they are i.e calibre or type of round/ belt feed etc, so I thought I'd throw it out to you chaps. Tried to put a Vallejo bottle for scale of size


Yes I know it's a bullet before the smart Alec's come out of the woodwork.


Thanks


Robert


Rober

[rickoshea52]

They're spent 7.62mm linked rounds.

[Robert1968]

They're spent 7.62mm linked rounds.

Thanks


So would they be fired from any gun like a GPMG/ SLR or similar or even later and just put in the links?

[PaulTRose]

eeeee...had lots of fun putting belts of that through gimpys

[PaulTRose]

Thanks
So would they be fired from any gun like a GPMG/ SLR or similar or even later and just put in the links?

more than likely since you have at least 2 different manufacturing dates that i can see


RG means Radway Green.....the manufactuer.....the 07 or 01 is the year of manufacture.......they must have collected fired cases and links, then inserted new bullets and assembled the links............and by those dates it would have been gimpys since SLR have been long out of use

[rickoshea52]

Thanks
So would they be fired from any gun like a GPMG/ SLR or similar or even later and just put in the links?

Most likely GPMG or even M60, it depends where they came from. Chinooks were fitted with a door mounted M60 in Northern Ireland. I'm sure that some sniper rifles used this calibrate of ammunition too, someone better informed will have the answer I'm sure.

[Robert1968]

more than likely since you have at least 2 different manufacturing dates that i can see
RG means Radway Green.....the manufactuer.....the 07 or 01 is the year of manufacture.......they must have collected fired cases and links, then inserted new bullets and assembled the links............and by those dates it would have been gimpys since SLR have been long out of use

Thanks Paul ( it's nice to know that somethings can be re used)


So you fired this Gimpy ( hope not in anger

[Guest]

They're spent 7.62mm linked rounds.

Spent? They have bullets in them! Me, I'd call the army if I found anything like that.

[Guest]

Looks lie the projectiles were put in after they were fired as evidenced by the indented primers.

[Guest]

They are definitely safe and are reconstructed from used cases and new bullets


Roger

[PaulTRose]

Spent? They have bullets in them! Me, I'd call the army if I found anything like that.

definatly inert....primer has a mark where the fiirng pin hit them, you can buy this sort of thing from hundreds of places

[Guest]

They sell these at Bebington tank museum shop at silly prices

[Guest]

They are rebuilt, you can see the mark of the striker at the base of the cartridge, a pressure point inward.


And if it seem 30 or 7.62mm NATO caliber used in personal weapons (substituted by at least 5.56mm NATO and USA) and mounted weapons such as M60 and L2A2. Anyway be careful with them ...o_O Greetings

[stona]

The number on the head stamp beginning with L gives more information about the cartridge. The only one I can read is L42A3 which indicates a cartridge using a Swiss propellant. The cap was also made in Switzerland by RUAG. Earlier rounds had percussion caps manufactured at the ROF Chorley, but production ceased at a date I don't know, obviously before this round was manufactured (2007). I didn't know that the MOD purchased this round, it may have come from abroad.


You'll probably find some "Round 7.62mm Ball L11A1" as the MOD ordered 10 million of these from Raufoss in Norway in 1967!


"Round 7.62mm Ball L44A1" is the current operational ball round.


Between 1976 and 1994 Radway Green adopted a universal case without any "L" designation that could be used for both ball and tracer.


There were/are some ammunition purchased by the MOD from other European and other manufacturers which were not allocated an L number. You might find something like "Round 7.62mm Ball M.80" which was manufactured in India (OFV-Ordnance Factory Varangaon, I think near Calcutta).

[spanner570]

Slightly off on a tangent, I did some 18 months 'work' with the Army during the late '70s. To relieve the boredom between jobs, I collected the empty cases and flattened the ends in a vice. Then I filed the flattened ends into chessmen.....I still have the complete set now - somewhere in the loft!