From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2006 - 06:55:53 PDT
At 7:04 AM -0500 4/5/06, Everette wrote:
>I do not know much about power of primers, from
>personal experience cap on muzzle loader blew
>rammed ball out for a friend of mine that had
>patched and rammed ball into a 58 cal. rifle
>before he put powder in.
>
>I am sure others remember from basic training
>when instructions put fuze from hand grenade
>under steel helment and just fuse blew helment
>many feet in the air.
In that case its a detonator. Note, the 1st post
says the projectile was 5" long. seems like a
40mm round complete would be much longer? Anyone
have that standard catalog of ordnance around?
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