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Peter Johnson
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Hi finally got an hour out on the local beach and took little Miss chatter box with me while Mrs is working.

The beach is sooo quiet I had to recheck every now and the to make sure the nox was still working. Managed to find a lot of ring pulls and flagon and whiskey tops. A few .22 bullet shells. Then I found what I thought was a live.32/20 cartridge but turned out to be an old round nose .303 projectile that someone had pushed into a .32 ( I think ) shell that had been fired but the salt had removed any markings on it.
What was odd was that the .303 was fired from a left hand twist barrel.
After our free time was up we walked back to the car and little Miss picked up a 50 cent piece. :D who needs a metal detector when you have a kid with you.

I love the Nox 800. It's so easy to use. I was finding ring pulls at 12 inches deep and very loud.
If it was a coin you'd certainly pick it up.
Just need a big storm to wash the beach out, far too much sea weed and soft deep sand atm.

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Wonder if that piece of case might be from a .310 Martini Cadet? It looks to be a rimmed, straight walled case, with about the correct dimensions judging from the .311 pill in it?
 
You could be right BC. Been a while since I did any reloading. Kind of lost track of all the dimension specifications. Still got my reloading books somewhere ? Looks too long for a 32/20 anyway.
Just thinking. You could be spot on. The area used to be a firing range for the defence force during ww2 .

What .303's rifles had the left hand twist ? Buggered if I can remember
 
Range of barrels out there with LH twist, I thought some of those were SMLEs? Pretty popular in Europe. Though apparently not so much with US barrel makers.
 
Maybe, esp. given that there was a combination of the two companies ('Martini Enfield') in between the Boer War and WWI. That's when the British Empire's troops started to get breech-loading cartridges in .303 cal.
 
I hope it isnt a childs coffin.

I heard somewhere, or read, that when a cemetery gets too full, they will dig up old graves to put in new coffins...

Maybe the cemetery was bigger in the past, and I have also heard that if not buried deep enough, if there is a lot of ground water
they can pop out of the soil with hydraulic pressure.

Spooky.

Nothing looks scorched, so not likely left overs from cremation
 
That is freaky Wishfull :( I thought door handles for sure until you mentioned the plaque at rest!
 
I WAS going to say nice find :8
But now I'd say RETURN IT BACK to its resting place and say 10 Hale Mary's
Then maybe you'll be ok :8
 

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