Found hidden in chestnut

[s.varty]

This bullet was found by me in a crevice of a horse chestnut tree, it was live and believed to be an anti tank bullet, anyone else found odd or interesting things in trees. Yes i am bored.

[C.J]

How long is it and what diameter are the bullet and shell case?

[treequip]

Here ya go, some buts I kept from my time in Berlin.

 

The shrapnel was a novelty in the beginning but that soon became real tiresome.

 

Bomb casing was bad enough but the worst was the blast damage masonry taking the chrome off the tooth.

 

We have from left to right

Chunk of oak with a smooth bore round embedded in it.

One smooth bore round (flattened by impact from the same tree)

Three bits of WW2 shrapnel

One copper jacketed small calibre round

One penny coin for scale

[s.varty]

How long is it and what diameter are the bullet and shell case?

 

The bullet is 6" long , diameter is the same as a 1 pound coin. On the firing pin end it reads "ks 43"

[john burgess]

It's probably a Browning .5 it could be armour piercing or normal round and they still use today

[Bomag]

It should say on the base of the case what calibre it is.

[Tnarg25]

taking down a tree next to a scrap yard a few years ago and there was a pigeons nest in the tree made entirely of copper wire .

[Chris Sheppard]

The bullet is 6" long , diameter is the same as a 1 pound coin. On the firing pin end it reads "ks 43"

 

Sounds similar to one I have that grandad fired during WW2 on a training exercise (and dug the bullet back out of the steel sheets at the end of the range) from a Boyes Anti Tank Rifle but mine says K 39 W,I on the base.

[White Noise]

The bullet is 6" long , diameter is the same as a 1 pound coin. On the firing pin end it reads "ks 43"

 

Well then thats an American made round circa 1943 .

 

Copper head steel core .

[armchairarborist]

found an ancient hand cut bolt with big square head, approx 1 inch diameter and 9 inch long with 70 years growth over the top of it, inside the last cut on a 150yr old dead syccie:thumbup:, customer kept the bolt:thumbdown: