found this on yellow river

[jakec]

Me and a buddy of mine went hunting on yellow river wma and found this on the bank. Unfired 5.56 blanks. Pretty cool.

 

[ilintner]

That's awesome, someone who knows something can probably identify what that was attached to. Gotta be a SAW...

 

[DevilDog]

Yeah, thats a box mag from a SAW. At least that what it looks like.

 

[jakec]

Yep that's what it is. It says m249 on the back of the box. I wish the gun would've been there still.

 

[flyandscuba]

Yep - SAW magazine. I've got a few SAW mags of the real stuff 4 Penetrators to 1 Tracer on 200 rd belts if anyone wants any.

 

[jakec]

Damn man if I had a gun that would shoot them I'd be all over that. I would break them down out of the links.

 

[flyandscuba]

Correct - de-linking them and shooting them in an AR makes more sense than buying a belt-fed upper like a Shrike... The uppers are expensive and not too reliable.

 

[SAWMAN]

When I used to hunt N of the River Road (RR 211) on Eglin,I came apon several different campsights that has some web gear,tents,blank belted ammo,and several training grenades. I promply threw the stuff into the deep water swamp.

The blank rounds probably will not completely cycle the action of a AR without the blank firing muzzle devive. AND....they will greatly soot up your action. --- SAWMAN

 

[jakec]

i was wondering if the blanks would be dirty as hell. i was talking about shooting the penetrator and tracer rounds flyandscuba has. why did you throw all of it in the swamp? i understand the grenades and ammo so nobody hurt themselves or someone else but the web gear and tents should be ok. i would be one of the dumbasses that would have to try out at least one of the grenades. i wouldnt be able to resist the temptation. i was never in the military so i never got it out of my system.

 

[SAWMAN]

The web gear was fairly old and covered in mudd. I was about a half mile into the thickish stuff with my gun and a backpack,didn't want to lug the stuff out,got loads of that stuff already. --- SAWMAN

 

[jakec]

that makes sense.

 

[Mullet Hunter]

We used to got to Elgin hunting back in the day, we relocated many m16 mags, many were full of blanks, smoke grenades, mess kits, huge cannon shell brass, camping equipment, gas mask, etc... It used to be a treasure hunt back in the mid 80's... Then we would turn it all in to the guards before we left...:thumb:

 

[jakec]

How legal of you.

 

[SAWMAN]

Hey....just thinkin' on it...I believe that I still have the location saved in my GPS. Can easily pass the numers on if anybody wants to go mud diving for the stuff. Of course it HAS been 5 years now and my numbers are stored in UTM's. You would have to convert to Lat/Lon. --- SAWMAN