Cartridge ID

[bayonet]

I dug this up a few days ago and I'm clueless as to what this is. I found it many years ago at a Boy Scout camp. I know it's a blank cartridge of some sort and that's about it. I polished it up to test some brass polish I had.

If any of you know what cartridge this is, please let me know. Thanks

[GrayWolf09]

Looks like a 30-06 blank.

[Munk]

Looks like a 30-06 blank.

I have a box of .30-06 blanks, and this looks amazingly close, so it's probably just a slightly different type (mine are wood plugged).

[FLIGHT762]

It is a 30/06 blank made by FN (Fabrique Nationale, Belgium) in 1965.

[Cheep]

If it is a blank, why is the primer struck and the crimp still intact?

[OldShooter32]

I have a box of .30-06 blanks, and this looks amazingly close, so it's probably just a slightly different type (mine are wood plugged).

I think those wooden bullet-rounds were close-combat training rounds. The blanks were crimped like this one or rolled-crimped with a waxed cardboard wad.

[fguffey]

If I had one of those rounds and I was in a bind and could not throw a grenade far enough I would remove the gas plug in my M1 and rearrange the furniture on the end of the barrel, then install a grenade on the muzzle end of the barrel, then aim?, pull the trigger.

What I would not do would be to shoulder the rifle, it was designed to to be fired with the stock placed on the ground, there are documentaries made during the Pacific campaign that show solders shooting grenades from the shoulder, in all appearance the recoil looks like the soldier was turned sideway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifle_grenade

http://www.inert-ord.net/usa03a/usarg/rg/index.html

http://www.billricca.com/glpg.htm

F. Guffey