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    7.62x51 grenade launching cartridges.
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    JEDEM DAS SEINE

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    Are you sure? they look like training blanks to me. What is the headstamp?

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    TonyE
    British Military Smallarms and Ammunition
    Collector, Researcher and Pedant
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    The HS is IVI nato cross and 70,they probably are blanks,what would be the HS on a Canadian grenade round?...Pete.
    JEDEM DAS SEINE

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    The headstamp would probably be similar Pete. However, 7.62mm NATO grenade blanks are generally always short rosette crimped blanks, plus British (and I think Canadian) ones are stained black on the lower half to identify them.

    The reason that the training blank has the long neck crimp is that they are required to feed from the magazine, whilst the short grenade blanks are single loaded each time a grenade is required.

    Of course now with 5.56mm, grenades are of the bullet trap type and use ordinary ball ammo to launch them.

    Picture of a service (left) and experimental (right) British 7.62mm NATO grenade blank.

    Regards
    TonyE
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    British Military Smallarms and Ammunition
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    Thanks Tony,I`ll have to keep looking for one...Pete.
    JEDEM DAS SEINE

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