Re: Exploding paperweight costs teacher his hand

From: Mike Davidsen (mike@aspirationsoftware.com)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2006 - 08:45:20 PDT

Weren't there a whole slew of 40mm short cannon rounds around the WWI
period of time and before? My mind keeps bring up the short 37mm cannon
rounds, but something similar to that size would hold enough powder in
the case to detonate and blow a hand off, without killing the entire
classroom.

Mike
1967 Kaiser M725 ambulance

>My thought is that it's older. that's based on the assumption that a total cartridge wouldn't be left laying in a field, rather, it'd be the projectile that failed to function after impact or being fired. An AP or practice round that went skipping through mud with just the base burster charge could probably blow your hand off and not really do any damage to anyone else nearby. Those old AP rounds really had a limited amount of burster charge in them.
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