by
Digger
Id have to opt for the less extravagant idea of local ammunition disposal. Normally rounds are taken away for disposal in furnaces, but if youve only got a handful of rounds, whats the point in filling out the paperwork? By cutting the cartridges through youd render them useless to anyone.
These could also have been duds, which would yield the indented primers. Also when a round is loaded into the chamber it does infact press an indent into the primer, and this can sometimes be confused with rounds that have been fired. They may just have been the last few rounds of a link, and rather than being disposed or relinked, they were rendered inoperable and discarded. As much as I would like to believe that they were cutup for "art", Id have to lean towards the more mundane and military purpose.
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