Ok, well, maybe not a shoulder fired gun, but a monster in it's own rights.



I have had this bullet in my possession since I was a child. I can't believe it wasn't stolen or lost or otherwise abandoned.

I know what it is, but does anyone else? The bullet beside it is a 308, 165 grain Game king.

A 20mm projectile, like antitank gun projectile, like from a Lahti? Milsurp real or facsimile?
Mighty shiney!
How much does it weigh, how long is it and what is the diameter?
I'll play.



The Lahti L-39 is a Finnish 20 mm anti-tank rifle used during the Second World War. It had excellent accuracy, penetration and range, but its size made transportation difficult. It was nicknamed "Norsupyssy" ("Elephant Gun"), and as tanks developed armour too thick to be penetrated by even this large, powerful rifle, its uses switched to long range sniping, tank harassment and with the L-39/44 fully automatic variant, an improvised anti-aircraft weapon.

Aimo Lahti had doubts about the original idea of a 13 mm anti-tank machine gun and started working on a 20 mm design. Officers who wanted smaller calibre anti-tank weapons believed that the muzzle velocity of 20 mm shells was insufficient to penetrate armour and a weapon with a higher rate of fire and in a smaller calibre would prove useful. As a result Lahti designed two competing anti-tank weapons: a 13.2 mm machine gun and a 20 mm rifle. After test firing both weapons in 1939, they found that the 20 mm rifle displayed better penetration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahti_L-39

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8DehAUimRA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rV170xEEgw

I have a friend who had a Carl Gustav 20mm recoilless rifle. The thing was heavy but balanced well on the shoulder. We joke about hunting with it, ultimate brush gun.

Mark
a pic from the internet, not me

It is a 20mm Hispano/oerlikon missing driving bands

FYI I am the one kneeling in the Gustav pic. This one is a little bigger. Video dose it no justice http://youtu.be/ywPtuoYobjM

It's original. My father made these in WWII, he was not quite old enough to go to war, but old enough to work. I believe he pinched this one off the assembly line.

I don't really know the history of this round. Can I assume they were not all chromed? I heard he had this one chromed.

This was on one of the cartritge collector forums. Some info on projos and a cutaway pic of what you have
http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/...4626-20mm-projectile