Luftwaffe bullet?

[bill norman]

Jon and Lutz. The bullet is definitely 13mm - so how can it be a US .50?

[Tony Williams]

Originally Posted by bill norman

Jon and Lutz. The bullet is definitely 13mm - so how can it be a US .50?

.50 inch is the bore diameter of the US .50 - the bullet diameter is .51, which is 12.95 mm.

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[SMF144]

von Lutz,

That rifling you see comes from the rifling found inside of the barrel of the gun. It certainly doesn't look like a .5 to me.

Stephen

[Tony Williams]

Originally Posted by SMF144

von Lutz,

That rifling you see comes from the rifling found inside of the barrel of the gun. It certainly doesn't look like a .5 to me.

Stephen

It certainly does look like a .5 Browning to me, and I have lots of them on my shelf

Other cartridges loaded with bullets of similar size and shape were: 12.7mm Russian, 13mm T-Gewehr, 13.2mm Hotchkiss. However, the .50 Browning is the closest match (and by far the most likely in W Europe on the basis of the number used).

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[Jon]

I have dug up US.50's and also a few German 13mm heads at crash sites.
I am sure this is .50, lets face it a good few were fired over the South of England during the war.