?What the Heck Is This?

Bioman · 06-15-2009, 06:35 PM

I was cleaning a batch of .308 brass I recently bought. Once fired military brass and in the middle of all of it was this. Can anyone tell me what this is?

Sasha88 · 06-15-2009, 06:39 PM

Could be a grenade launching cartridge.

cycloneman · 06-15-2009, 06:44 PM

i believe your looking at a lake city blank

woolleyworm · 06-15-2009, 07:32 PM

Yes indeed, it is a blank. wouldn't reload it, refer to the current thread on flash hole size.

22WRF · 06-15-2009, 07:37 PM

and a Lake City blank mfg in 2004

JLA · 06-15-2009, 08:46 PM

agreed... its a blank

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