You've probably seen this photo...supposedly from the Battle of Gallipoli. It has been claimed they met in-flight and were touted as an absolutely impossible shot.
Well...it is probably impossible...but look further. One bullet shows the rifling twist and one does not...which indicates it was not fired but was hit some other way....in an ammo pouch perhaps?
All in all a pretty cool paperweight to have.....
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Bantam T3-C 1947
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Re: Bullets
Somewhere in our house, we have a pair of 30:06 rouds fired in WWI picked up by (then)Lt. Ward Robinson whom later gave them to my Pop in the 70's. Same guy had his Puttis in a pair of 77mm shells he brought back that he had misplaced.
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Re: Bullets
I've not seen it-thanks Chuck...reminds of the Civil War Minies seen fused head on when the boys slugged it out with .58 vs .577-
both pretty obviously fired,unlike your picture.Agree that the one had never been chambered.Either a cartridge pouch hit or the clean one was a 'drop',hit after it was on the ground.Talk about spinning a fellow around...
both pretty obviously fired,unlike your picture.Agree that the one had never been chambered.Either a cartridge pouch hit or the clean one was a 'drop',hit after it was on the ground.Talk about spinning a fellow around...
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