Beach hunt Silver, Silver ring, and .50 cal round?

[Jed in NC]

Spent about 5 hours on the beach Saturday with the Nox 600 and 15" coil. Still finding lots of coins along storm cuts. Also found what I think is a .50 cal round. Measures out at about .50 on my calipers. Any help with an ID would be appreciated. Thanks for looking!

 

[laplander]

Wow lots of digging Jed, congrats on a busy hunt. You know what they say if it looks like a .50 cal and measures like a .50 cal it probably is a .50 cal LOL Any pull tabs?
Jeff

 

[metalfun]

Nice hunt Jed. Way to go on the silver.HH

 

[tcornel]

That is a 50 caliber round. I just recovered dozens of them in Myrtle Beach. Many were over half encrusted with the ball being about 2" in diameter. My hunting buddy and I speculated that the round was hot when it hit the sand and melted some silica to get it started. Other rounds were perfectly clean.

 

[GeorgeinSC]

Looking at the 50 cal round it may be an armor piercing round. Check it with a magnet. I find them frequently as when they pump sand from off shore to replentish the beaches they are pumping from areas that at one time was a practice range for the USN There were a number of areas up and down the coast where the Navy fired thousands of those 50 cal rounds.

 

[Mark kus]

Nice hunt I just found a .50 shell casing in a school yard!

 

[BigTony]

GeorgeinSC, so if the 50 cal round is magnetic then it’s armor piercing?

I was wonder why a few I found on NJ beach were slightly magnetic.

Tony NJ