Is there a way for me to sell this?

Um...yeah...I'm a Infantry team leader Veteran of Iraq...that's a Practice Mortar round. I can't tell you if it's live or not, typically practice rounds have a smaller amount of explosive, either way, I wouldn't keep that in my house...seen WAY to many people die from mortars...

My question is "where the heck dod you get this thing from"?

looks like it would make a nice doorstop....just dont slam the door!!!!!

Yeah, the insurgents regularly wired those up with 9-volt batteries and used them to ambush us. Actually fairly easy to set-off...wouldn't want to be by it when it did go...it's not pretty.

I take back my previous comment ...not funny and no disrespect to a hero like you cavaleriesoldaat

I got it at an auction with a bunch of other stuff. I thought it was just a nice replica. Does "LOT MA 12-52" mean that it was made on March 12, 1952? I would like to sell it, but not if I'm going to break any laws. And, if I can't sell it, how do I dispose of it?

Why dont you just send it prepaid to the president of Iran.

Just kidding!

Well, I was thinking may be a gun shop or one of those places where they sell excess military inventory.

I'm all for the Iran idea...lol

Seriously, it's technically illegal to have them in your possesion...so I'm not sure what to do...maybe turn it in to authorities?

As far as the numbers go...not sure, they vary so much... here's a link to the base that makes them...I know there is a page somewhere with info on them http://www.ria.army.mil/sites/local/

I don't know really what you should do with it...how did you get it? That kind of simplifies or complicates the situation.

that is soo spooky, where the hell would someone dispose of that secretly lol, buring it probably wont do much good. I suggest getting in touch with some of your local army recruiters, maybe they can point you in the right direction

OH MY WORD!

I can guarantee you I'd be calling one of my buds whose a police captain ASAP.

I know..I know..what's the local police have to do with this? Nuttin. But I guarantee Bill would at the very least have someone from bomb squad at my house to pick the darn thing up ASAP.

Did anyone see the 60 minutes. 20/20, Dateline or one of those shows? It was in regards to a subdivision in Texas where a whole subdivision was built on buried missiles? NEW subdivision!

A neighborhood full of young parents with children. I.E., swingsets, bikes, skateboards, etc.

The neighborhood looked like a ghost town. Nobody would let their children outside (of course) to run and play.

Lots of bombs were found and are still being found underneath the foundations of the homes, etc. Some of the bombs were live and some weren't.

Can you just imagine how fearful you would be every day?

Needless to say...there are lawsuits against the builder. Such a sad situation.

I digress....

To heck with figuring out who to call..just call somebody. Even if it's the local fire department...they can figure out who and what department should deal with this.

Good Luck and keep us apprised,
Donna

Well, I am being careful with it. But I'm not that fearful of it. May be its not even live. God knows I've been tossing it around when I was sorting through the stuff I got at the auction and I've been tossing it around here and there and thanks goodness no problem--I don't do that anymore though. I'll figure out how to get rid of this, I hope. Thanks.

Where do you live ? hope your not anywhere near NH

I can tell you how to safely set it off, that is, if you have an open area.

You'll need to pieces of basic wire. attach each one to the tip of the detonator (very front) making sure the metal is in contact. Now get at least 50 feet away behind solid cover, i.e., a mound or burm. Once behind cover, take a 9-volt battery, attach one wire to the negative, then the second to the positive. If it blows, than you had a live one!!!

If not, wait at least 15 minutes after you have disconected the 9-volt and approach the device. At this point, you can a little more assured that it isn't live, but not 100%. I could have a bad detonator but still have the powder in it.

Anyway...that's the proper way of disposing of it, in the army anyway.

Um, yeah, if it were me I'd still avoid trying to detonate it myself -- even if I did have good instructions...

Sounds like news headlines in the making.

In Iraq, instead of waiting for EOD (Explosive Ordinance Disposal)to come...which meant we'd have to sit exposed for hours...we'd pile 'em together, and sit one, detonator up, on top of the pile. Then we'd take turns trying to shoot the very tip of the detonator from about 200 meters away. We usually made the Team Snipers sit it out...no fun with those guys (who hits something like that on one shot...really? Not human, I say) Great fireworks when you hit it!!!

Yeah huh. I shoud try hitting the tip at 200 meters away with my 9mm. I'll be there all day long. Thanks for the tip on detonating it though. I am considering it now--I think it would make for a cool show. I live in Arizona so there's a lot of open land around in the desert where it could be done. If it's not a live one then it will make for a poor show though.

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Originally posted by carolelliott:
Where do you live ? hope your not anywhere near NH

You and I seem to be far enough away from AZ...I know I'm over 2000 miles.

EEEK!
Blessings to the deserts of AZ!

Peace, Donna

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Originally posted by EFLORES949:
Yeah huh. I shoud try hitting the tip at 200 meters away with my 9mm. I'll be there all day long. Thanks for the tip on detonating it though. I am considering it now--I think it would make for a cool show. I live in Arizona so there's a lot of open land around in the desert where it could be done. If it's not a live one then it will make for a poor show though.

Take your camera and get some pics for we "gawkers."

I'm bout as dumb as dirt when it comes to this kinda bang bang stuff. It was finally explained to me to where I put two and two together a few years back that a magazine goes into the gun. Heck when magazines were talked about, I thought it was like my monthly subscription to Southern Living. <big smile>

Get some pics of the ka-boom for us!

Good luck,
Donna

I got some real good live footage from Iraq...I should throw it up on a back page of the website...if I do, I'll post a link for ya'll.

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