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Old 28-11-2016, 13:56   #387
Retlaw
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Re: Metal Detecting (Including Finds).

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Originally Posted by Accyexplorer View Post
Cheers for the info,my question is this,why are there so many bullets in the ground...IRA,modern day criminals or something less sinister?

I hear cordite,which is allegedly what is in some WW bullets, is illegal in any amount....does this mean I risk arrest if I hand them into the police?
Do you mean bullets or cartridges, bullets can be found all theover the Coppice and Moleside The used to be a range at Hapton which was closed as dangerous, ricochets went all over the place from there, Live ammo on the slopes near Moleside, yes it was a military area during the last war, as for cordite, that has been used in British small arms military ammo since 1892, as cordite 5/2 5/100 th's OD / 2/100 th's ID. Its tubular, cordite is a mixture of Nitro Glycerine & Guncotton with a 5% vaseline base added for lubrication. there are 37 sticks of it in a .303, it was also used in blanks but called ballistite, flaked cordite was also used in the Webly .38 & .455, cordite was also used in ships guns, large bags of it rammed in behind the shell. You can put cordite on the flags an thump it all day wit a hammer an nowt will happen, put a match to it and it burns like celluloid, you can even eat it, an nowt will happen other than your ticker races abit. Nitro is used for some heart problems

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