WTB Brass Arty Shell case

[WildBillCody]

At least 105mm, just want it for my desk at work to put pens in, so it doesn't have to be super nice.
Anyone know where I can find them?

[M1 Tanker]

a 105mm shell casing from a M1 Abrams (slick) is 24 inches tall, you gonna cut it down?

I don't know a source for any casings anymore. All that stuff was accountable and wasn't even brass anymore when we had 105's. I think you will have to comb ebay and the junk stores.

[Planning]

we had piles of 105 & 155 brass every where. one of our c-123 pilots made a deal with some koreans on the brass and we loaded the c-123 up with several pallets of it. he got greedy and wanted 1 more loaded and we put a pallet on the ramp. he got down at the end of the landing strip and held the brakes untill the air craft was shaking real bad and there he went. all the way down to the other end of the run way. ( our strip was the top of a mountain that was knocked off so we had valleys all the way around) over the side they went. all we could see was black smoke for a few seconds and a lot of engine noise, then we saw them coming back around. they landed and all the pilot said was " get it off" we unloaded it and set it on the side of the landing strip. it was still there when i left.........may still be there if you want to go get it.:airtight:

[okie shooter]

They are hard even for me to come by at work, I havent seen any steel artillary cases go off plant without us crushing them for a while.

Ron, as for that pile you have there, I have been the engineer on jobs, taking apart a couple of million of those things(most made for the vietnam war, late sixties and early seventies production), they are now all wound steel, with laquered steel over brass any more. Some of the armor arounds I have worked with are still brass but brass is few and far between for sure.

[vpost]

This is not for sale but thought I would let you see it,
105mm DPICM canister fired by my unit(A btry 3rd 319AFAR) when we crossed the border during Desert Storm.

[WildBillCody]

Ok, well I'd take a steel one, do you see any where the bottom 4" or so isn't smashed?

[okie shooter]

Ironically, after demilling the 105 rounds for the last ten years, the army claims most of the remaining assets of the rounds are in Korea, and promiced for demil by the Koreans. They have been saying that for about the last three or four years though, and we keep getting jobs to do them.

[WildBillCody]

I found one, I did check on ebay before I made this post, but I didn't put in 105mm, I did that, and it came right up with one.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220141683304

[okie shooter]

I think thats the type of round they use to salute at the end of the day, its been converted to shoot 12ga black powder blanks.

[gunbunny]

TOO short to be used for a "real" round, but probably just about the right height to hold your pens.

[WildBillCody]

Got it, But, It's too big for a pen holder without cutting it down more. It doesn't take a 12 shell.

[okie shooter]

Are there any id marks or is there a DODIC on it?

[XO3319]

vpost

When were you with the Animals?

I was the 504th PIR FSO, 3-319th AFAR S3 and Bn Xo in 2002-2005

LTC Tewksbury was our Commander for the 1st hitch in Afghanistan-- he was HSB 3-319th AFAR Commander for the Gulf War do you remember him?

ATW

[WildBillCody]

Are there any id marks or is there a DODIC on it?

I don't know what the DODIC, It's marked 105MM,M14, but that is all X'd out, then it has LOT E8S -1-21 1944, that's stamped on the bottom, then stenciled on the side:
Blank Charge
Weight 2 lbs.
105mm Howitzers
Lot PA-28-9
and R.P.A. 1952

[okie shooter]

I don't know what the DODIC, It's marked 105MM,M14, but that is all X'd out, then it has LOT E8S -1-21 1944, that's stamped on the bottom, then stenciled on the side:
Blank Charge
Weight 2 lbs.
105mm Howitzers
Lot PA-28-9
and R.P.A. 1952

The current case I have under my desk, is a 105mm M14B4 case, sprial steel with solid base(it saved the army millions upon millions when they went to the two part case, rather than drawing the case out of brass), I am guessing you have a solid drawn brass case, from the dates WWII, that was converted to saluting. The ones they use at the flag here, take a 12ga blank black powder shell, with some sort of adaptor. I will root around a little and see what I can find out.

Yes I am a armorments nerd, I know too much about the things I would with here. :)

[vpost]

Hey XO,

I was with the Animals from Jan 90 till Sept 95, I started as a plt FO for 1st plt Aco 1-504 and ended as the Team Chief for Bco 1-504, That was a lot of years ago, CPT Tewksbury, the name sounds familar but can't place him. Oh to not be retired and jumping again!

Vince