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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 week ago (6 children)

TIL Gawd makes bullets fly with the shell still attached

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's not painted as a casing, more like an exceptionally extended body. It rather looks like a tracer projectile body. I suspect somebody searched for 5.56mm projectile references and picked the tracer at random.

The crimp mark is quite far up though, rather than on the major diameter.

[–] Strykker 15 points 1 week ago

It is quite clearly painted as a brass casing, the rear half doesn't look close to the same color as the front copper in the op.

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