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A friend had this in some stuff he got from his dad's stuff and asked me what I thought it was from. The headstamp reads MKI1A3 AOP-1-42 1943
The base is .51 inches, length is about 1.5 inches, outside diameter tapers from .36 at the base to .35" at the open end. Inner diameter is .26". The primer is small rifle sized and the dimple made by the firing pin is fairly shallow.
I think it was used in either a grenade or in a land mine, but I haven't been able to verify what it was used in for certain. Have any of you run across anything like this before??
There was something like this thing sometime back in an issue of the American Rifleman magazine. Someone had one and was trying to determine what it was used it. The answer given is it a primer cartridge for an artillery piece. For big guns using cloth bags of powder. When the gun is be prepped with projectile and bag of powder, one of these were placed into the breech block last thing before closing the breech. A laynard cord is attached to a piece which will strike the primer or rear of primer cartridge when the cord is pulled. It makes everything go BOOM. If you can find some photos of them shooting some artillery you look close you can usually see some wearing a bandoleer of these waiting to insert one into the breech mechanisim. Of course some just carried the thing in their pockets. I believe it was simply loaded with Black Powder to act as an initiator. But don't hold me to this. Most were used on guns as large or larger than 155MM. Interesting.
That's an old one, but yah, it looks like it could be a canon "primer"...
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That is an artillery primer for large guns firing separately loaded ammunition such as the 8" Howitzer, 155mm Gun, 175mm Gun, etc. What looks like the primer in the base is actually a captive firing pin that strikes the conventional primer located under it. The body is charged with black powder as a booster. The primer is inserted in the firing lock which is then inserted into the breechblock once the breech is closed and locked. The firing lock is then struck by the hammer which is pulled by the firing lanyard.
