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Buried Tank and Crashed Jet

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Undercover of Blue Skies and Puffy Energetic Clouds,  three investigators searched the desert record for clues.

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GPS Waypoint of Buried Tank

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    Buried Cache??

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At the end of the day, I remain clueless.   Although I was able to Govern the search.

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A clueless day in the desert still beats a day in the office.......:(

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Any of the Gun Folks help with identifying those shells?

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Shell casing looks like a .50 cal machine gun round the other looks to me like a 20mm cannon round. These are Depleted Uranium and will make you sterile...hahaha J/K on the Sterile part. I have no idea what that bullet is but some do have an explosive in them...Should use caution handling these....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_mm_caliber

 

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Deposited back in nature.  Thanks for the warning.

Hey Paul,, Wash your hands

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Just now, Bagstr said:

Deposited back in nature.  Thanks for the warning.

Hey Paul,, Wash your hands

Pfft.

Clipped years ago.

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30 minutes ago, Huntndogs said:

Shell casing looks like a .50 cal machine gun round the other looks to me like a 20mm cannon round. These are Depleted Uranium and will make you sterile...hahaha J/K on the Sterile part. I have no idea what that bullet is but some do have an explosive in them...Should use caution handling these....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_mm_caliber

 

Hmm.

I'm thinking these are of a few generations prior to those fancy-pants guns in the video. And yes, the live round was drilled through the middle of the projectile. They were pretty close in diameter, and there were many belt clips lying (laying?) around. I got to wondering if the shorty was used as a tracer periodically in the belt and the longer shell was the "real" bullet.

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Curious what GPS coords you have for the tank. I have 33.200000, -116.147444

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Close -  33.2          -116.14745

DMS      33-12-0       -116-8-50.82

  Good Luck, take a metal detector.  Also, it is on the Wash east of Fault

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8 minutes ago, amgems said:

Crashed jet? 

That’s classified. 

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49 minutes ago, paulmbowers said:

That’s classified. 

The one East of the Blu Inn ? Been their 

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15 hours ago, paulmbowers said:

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Redacted version for public release. 

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17 hours ago, amgems said:

Crashed jet? 

Approved for public view...

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10 hours ago, SoCalMule said:

Redacted version for public release. 

That's perty dam funny right there.

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16 hours ago, Zubb said:

That's perty dam funny right there.

Yeah I just got some looks from around the office floor myself

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Say Hello to my Leetle friend.

 

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I showed the images of the ammunition to a friend who knows about such things. He asked a friend of his who knows more about such things and the 411 is:

 

.50 BMG from the Milwaukee Ordnance Plant in 1943, and a random 20mm likely fired from a multi-barrel something-or-other

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