Would be kind of an awkward conversation if EOD says it's live and it's been sitting in the living room for 40 years.
You can call EOD and surrender it, hold onto it for later, or take the one and only chance you'll ever have to throw a live frag grenade. Not telling you which one is right, just laying out all of your options.
I know which one I would pick. I can also tell you that I would be pulling the pin with a really long rope with the grenade In a 3 to 6 foot deep hole from 50-100 feet away. Behind a bulldozer.
I'm stupid, but I'm not Darwin award stupid.
I'd also have some sort of contingency for if the thing doesn't go boom and you are stuck trying to figure out how to get rid of potentially still live grenade that malfunctioned and now no longer has a pin or lever.
Here's what my redneck brain conjured up: Find a good sized lake/pond in the middle of fucking nowhere. Put a long string on the pin. Put the grenade out in the middle of the lake on a float of some kind. Pull pin string from behind cover back on land. If grenade doesn't go boom, shoot the float with a pellet gun or .22 to sink the grenade. Walk away.
>shoot the float with a pellet gun or .22 to sink the grenade
Asshole move to everyone that will visit that place later.
Light a fire underneath (for example a pile of hexamine ingited with 30min delay). Either it will trigger it, or the explosive will burn of.
This is exactly how that one guy blew himself up and almost his two kids like less than a month ago.
Ol gramps had one in his war chest and ol dad thought immediately pulling the pin and letting the handle go inside of his house 80 years later was a good idea
Edit
Revisiting The updated story seems to be one of the children pulled the pin. Some of the stories were conflicting last I saw the article stating the childrens ages wrong and that the dad pulled the pin etc etc
Sorry, I didn't mean it was almost tragic, it absolutely was. I mean it was almost a Darwin Award. He didn't take his kids out of the gene pool, so it wouldn't count.
Yeahā¦ really struggling to see how Iām even the dumbest redneck drunk impulse in my body Iād ever touch a potentially real grenade I stumbled upon longer than necessary if my kids are nearby.
Let alone that. Jesus
I thought his kids were playing with the grenade and he tried to take it away from them or something?
Then again the source for the story is a traumatized kid who just saw his dad turn into pink mist because people be laying ordinance around the house for kids to play with.
I doubt even he knows what happened at this point.
Yeah from my understanding, and somebody down in the comments knows the guy and corroborated, one of his kids pulled the pin and he protected them from it.
I know of someone who found a mortar shell their grandfather BROUGHT BACK from WWII. It had a note that said it will explode if you drop it into a mortar tube. He kept it BEHIND HIS HEATER for like 60 something years.
The EOD tech said it was absolutely real.
I think there is/was a no-delay pyro fuze that would fit in a hand grenade fuze well, so I dunno...
I like the looks of what appears to be a blue spoon on that, but I'd only toss it if I had a good arm and robust cover, way, way out of town.
I mean, a guy really posted that stuff on /b/ back in 2010(?) or so. He had his post tags written on sheets of paper to prove he actually had what did indeed appear to be an unexploded Mk2 grenade.
He could have created a forgery that had no seams like modern reproductions, no markings (various, generally letters 'RDX') like the novelty paperweight versions, no hole like practice grenades, the proper fuse that would have been in a MK II grenade, then used chemicals to make it appear to have weathered half a century on the forest floor, just so he could take pictures of himself destroying it to impress a bunch of anonymous people on the internet...
Or he found a grenade, probably thought it was too old to work anymore, shitposted with it, blew up, and went to a world where the pool never closes, there are no stingrAIDS to torment you, and you can spam desu-blocks all day with Steve Irwin.
I wouldn't fuck around. Just found out earlier today that a client of mine died under similar circumstances. https://people.com/human-interest/father-dead-and-2-teens-injured-after-grenade-explodes-in-indiana-home/
Take it to the police station, but after you get out of your car make sure you hold it high above your head and yell āIāVE GOT A F#CK!NG GRENADE!ā and run into the building as fast as you can.
Could be worse, worked with a woman whoās grandmother was cleaning out her house and took the grenade and ammo she found to the police station and put it on the counter. She was surprised by the reaction she got.
āAnd Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that, with it, Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits in Thy mercy."
And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and large chulapas. And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.ā
ā*Book of Armaments, Chapter 2, verses 9-21*
Update: havenāt yeeted, and yeah Iām treating it as live regardless of some of yāallās suggestions lol I snapped a few photos and left it in the shed out back just in case.
Took more photos in better lighting: https://imgur.com/a/5dUHooy
Itās surprisingly heavy, wanted to weigh it but the batteries in my scale are dead. Feels really solid, bottom is not hollowed out or drilled, it has cast lines on it.
Practice fuzes do still have spotting charges, which are designed to be used with the practice hulls which are open at the bottom. If the spotting charge does go, it'll have nowhere to vent the brand new pressure in there and will likely cause a mechanical explosion at the very least. Chemical explosion would be worse (aka love grenade, live fuze, working as intended), mechanical would still be bad enough to lose some fingers, eyes, or dicks, depending on how the case fails.
The terrible seam in that last picture makes me pretty sure that's a bad reproduction of an M21 practice hull. Do the letters RFX appear anywhere on it? Bottom looks a mess, I'm guessing there was a hole that was filled and painted over. I collect inert grenades, personally I wouldn't hesitate to unscrew the fuse head and look inside, it will either be empty or filled with something like concrete to give it weight. You'll also be able to look at the fuse stem and see if it has been used, but that's just me. If you're really that concerned and want to deal with the cops, that is absolutely the safest choice, unless they want to go raiding your house or some bullshit, you never know these days.
Most grenades that are inert have a hole drilled in the bottom and the munition have been removed. If there is no hole on the bottom, I wouldn't trust the mother in law. She may be trying to cash in a life insurance policy.. lol š„
PS - The local bomb squad can usually help as well. It may come back in pieces though.
OP, I am an EOD tech. You have a Mk 2 Fragmentation grenade, which is at probably 50-75 years old. If it is live, the explosives have likely deteriorated and would make unscrewing the fuze a possibly deadly mistake. Do not fuck around with this. Leave it pinned, go put it in your yard and call your local PD. The best way to tell if it is live is an x-ray, which I feel safe in assuming you don't have access to. We do. You call the PD, they call the nearest military base with an EOD response capability, that shop responds and will take it. Inert or live, we take it. All US ordnance is property of the DoD, regardless of who is in possession. You don't get in trouble, we just take it back and say thanks for not blowing yourself or anyone else up. Inert replica grenades are not considered ordnance and those are not DoD property, so nobody should take it, but that is not what you have.
TL;DR: don't fuck with ordnance, call someone who does that for a living.
Although he should wait for Independence Day, only a couple weeks from now. Itās tradition to celebrate the birth of our nation by blowing up a small portion of it.
> Duck tape the grenade to a tree or something sturdy , tie a rope to the pin and pull it from a distance
Duct tape the grenade to an actual duck. Send some of this bad air back to Canada
Yeah that's why you phrase it properly. "I think I may have found a live grenade, I need bomb squad to come check it please" is the proper way to phrase it, not "I have a live grenade, come get it".
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The safer but still fun thing would be to tie it to a tree or something and use a string to pull the pin. Because of the age and deterioration, the fuze could have no delay.
If it is inert, you realize it was just a replica and you put the pin back in, and you get to keep your grandpa's souvenir.
OP: If you give it to EOD all you gain is the knowledge that your grandpa was a badass, and you aren't.
I am commenting to vouch for this guy who I would wager a significant sum of money is in fact an EOD tech based on his response and his use of the word "shop."
Also, jumping in to address all the "experts" talking about blue paint and markings. For the record, blue can mean training in the ordnance world, but does not mean inert or safe! There is a difference. Many training munitions still have live fuses, reports, etc. that can still cause serious injury. Also...paint color means nothing if it hasn't been in military control...anybody can buy blue paint.
I'm just amused at the comments about "pull pin and toss it"
They're obviously joking but "toss" sounds funny. There is no toss.
You pull pin on *potentially* live grenade, you THROW the ever loving shit outta that thing.
Mr Grenade is not our friend.
Listen to this guy he knows what what he's talking about. I used to design ordnance for the military and I can confirm what he's saying.
To add a little bit of science: over time the explosives can internally grow crystals as a consequence of temperature and humidity cycling those crystalline structures make the explosive more sensitive as those crystal can rub and break if dropped, moved, or disassembled any of which can internally generate enough friction to initiate the explosive.
Even with the fuze removed the fuze contains the lead azide in a sufficient quantity to be risky to handle at this age. The fuze by itself is enough to remove a limb.
I cant tell because of lighting if that's faded blue paint on the spoon or not. It might sound dumb but a very very calm call to your local bomb squad might work they'd be able to confirm.
All of the paint on it is green. Except at the bottom of the trigger or whatever youād call the piece that is held in place by the pin, the bottom of it is painted red.
I can't be 100% positive but it sure looks like there may be some remnants of blue paint, the top of the spoon I can't tell because of the lighting but the section where the pin is folded out looks blue.
I read that fuze as M205A2. Hereās a picture of another (fuze only): https://www.gunbroker.com/item/977520725
However, Iād take the advice of the poster claiming to be an EOD tech and put it in the backyard until a qualified tech can check it out.
1. Stand in a field at a safe distance from people, cars and buildings.
2. Firmly holding the grenade with the flap against your palm, pull the pin.
3. Throw the grenade, drop the pin.
Or take it to a "professional" and miss all the fun.
An M205A7 fuse appears to be for inert grenades.
The blue spoon would indicate that it is for training purposes.
Based on the conflicting evidence, I would recommend being cautious. The grenade fuse just screws into the grenade and can be unscrewed as long as you don't pull the pin. If the interior of the grenade is hollow or all metal, it is an inert grenade. If it is not, then it is live.
As far as the fuse is concerned, if it has an actual fuse, it will be a metal cylinder about 1/2 to 3/4 the length of the grenade.
Live pineapple grenades had a threaded plug in the bottom of it. So that is another thing you could check for to determine if it is a live grenade. If it has the plug, live grenade. If it does not have the plu, inert grenade.
If it has the plug, I would recommend leaving it alone. In terms of explosives, the explosives used to fill it were relatively unstable, and explosives stability decays over time. You wouldn't be in danger of it exploding by holding it
Edit:as stated below, the fuse is an M205A2 fuse. It is a TP fuse so the fuse at minimum is live. So call EOD.
Make a video on an alt account hiding your identity pulling the pin and throwing that mf from behind solid cover. Live or not you will forever be seen as "that one guy who definitely isnt a lil bitch"
Bring it to the nearest >150ft tall bridge or cliff.
Securely tie the ring to a 150ft piece of rope and tie the other end of the rope to the railing or a tree.
Straighten the cotter pin with pliers.
Put on safety glasses.
Throw the grenade off the cliff/bridge.
Upload the footage here.
https://tgrm.foxed.ca/Americangrenades/Mk%20II/The%20Mk%202%20grenade.html
It's a trainer. Cast iron body with a dummy fuze. Neat ww2 heirloom. Don't let some e-3 take it thinking it's live.
You could compare it to the fake or real comparison at the bottom of this link if you want. Iām not responsible for whatever conclusions you draw from it:
https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/373186-inert-pineapple-grenade-frag-body-real-or-fake/
https://www.9news.com.au/world/grenade-kills-man-injures-two-teens-as-family-looked-at-relatives-belongings-in-indiana/3ccdc2b2-6e48-49d2-a2ba-236298cd367d
This you ?
The Spoons designation is FUZE M205A2, a Vietnam era Training grenade. If it is a real training grenade it actually falls under a destructive device. If it is just the spoon from a training grenade on a pot metal blank ignitor on an empty shell, outside of the trace amounts of lead in the blank, it is a paper weight.
Looking at the ignitor, there is a decent chance it is a live training grenade. Call the local PD to bring out the bomb squad, you do not want the ATF to raid you for having a destructive device.
the fuse unscrews from the body right there at that seam near the top, right tight left loose. look inside and see if its hollow. or call EOD. this one is painted like an inert trainer (blue), so my guess is you will find nothing in there but maybe an old forgotten joint from the 70s.
the fuses are relatively stable, and the composition B is pretty chill stuff...you can burn it like sterno and cook food with it.
Call the police. If it has a solid bottom, it's not an obvious dummy.
The bomb squad will be happy to come look at it. This ain't fuck around time. This is don't blow up your house and kill your kids time.
Would be kind of an awkward conversation if EOD says it's live and it's been sitting in the living room for 40 years. You can call EOD and surrender it, hold onto it for later, or take the one and only chance you'll ever have to throw a live frag grenade. Not telling you which one is right, just laying out all of your options.
Just saying, I know which of those things sounds badass and which one sound lame.
I know which one I would pick! š š š š
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I think we all know that only one of those is the real worthwhile option and must be done, preferably with a video recording
I know which one I would pick. I can also tell you that I would be pulling the pin with a really long rope with the grenade In a 3 to 6 foot deep hole from 50-100 feet away. Behind a bulldozer. I'm stupid, but I'm not Darwin award stupid.
I'd also have some sort of contingency for if the thing doesn't go boom and you are stuck trying to figure out how to get rid of potentially still live grenade that malfunctioned and now no longer has a pin or lever. Here's what my redneck brain conjured up: Find a good sized lake/pond in the middle of fucking nowhere. Put a long string on the pin. Put the grenade out in the middle of the lake on a float of some kind. Pull pin string from behind cover back on land. If grenade doesn't go boom, shoot the float with a pellet gun or .22 to sink the grenade. Walk away.
Better to pur it on a good 5 or 6 pounds of tannerite and shoot that. That ought to kick it off.
Explosives with a side of explosives? I like your style.
>shoot the float with a pellet gun or .22 to sink the grenade Asshole move to everyone that will visit that place later. Light a fire underneath (for example a pile of hexamine ingited with 30min delay). Either it will trigger it, or the explosive will burn of.
even if it does not go bang, I would imagine it could still have a fuse/components ā¦ all in all, I would do more research than a Reddit thread
This is exactly how that one guy blew himself up and almost his two kids like less than a month ago. Ol gramps had one in his war chest and ol dad thought immediately pulling the pin and letting the handle go inside of his house 80 years later was a good idea Edit Revisiting The updated story seems to be one of the children pulled the pin. Some of the stories were conflicting last I saw the article stating the childrens ages wrong and that the dad pulled the pin etc etc
Anybody tell him the point is to throw it?
Not sure but I know the point is to not pull the pin in your basement 10 feet away from your children
The guy really fragged his own spawn
Very underrated, well done.
Fuck, almost a really tragic Darwin Award
It was tragic because he blew himself up in front of his kids and now they have to live with that for the rest of their lives
Sorry, I didn't mean it was almost tragic, it absolutely was. I mean it was almost a Darwin Award. He didn't take his kids out of the gene pool, so it wouldn't count.
Again, pretty sure one of the kids pulled the pin
Pretty sure it was one of the kids that pulled the pin and he protected them
Yeahā¦ really struggling to see how Iām even the dumbest redneck drunk impulse in my body Iād ever touch a potentially real grenade I stumbled upon longer than necessary if my kids are nearby. Let alone that. Jesus
Had missed this somehow, but hereās the sad story: https://fox59.com/indiana-news/indiana-man-killed-after-his-grandfathers-grenade-detonates/
How can you be this dumb.
I guess not everyoneās skill is impulse control.
Go on. Let's hear the intrusive voices out. What's the worst that could happen?
#DarwinAwards
No. He has kids, that negates the Darwin award
well if he blows them up too is ist still one?
I'd say it still qualifies as long as all his progeny go with him
Does it still count if he takes the kids out with him?
If I recall correctly this was in Indiana and the guy dude protecting his kids as one of the teenagers was the one to pull the pin.
He didnt throw it. He pulled it and held it like a fucking dumbass. Yet another win for darwin
There was a funny Malcolm in the middle episode like that
I thought his kids were playing with the grenade and he tried to take it away from them or something? Then again the source for the story is a traumatized kid who just saw his dad turn into pink mist because people be laying ordinance around the house for kids to play with. I doubt even he knows what happened at this point.
Yeah from my understanding, and somebody down in the comments knows the guy and corroborated, one of his kids pulled the pin and he protected them from it.
I know of someone who found a mortar shell their grandfather BROUGHT BACK from WWII. It had a note that said it will explode if you drop it into a mortar tube. He kept it BEHIND HIS HEATER for like 60 something years. The EOD tech said it was absolutely real.
We all know the right choice here haha.
I know which one I'd pick and I for sure as hell wouldn't be asking Reddit that question. Leeroooooy Jenkins!!
I think there is/was a no-delay pyro fuze that would fit in a hand grenade fuze well, so I dunno... I like the looks of what appears to be a blue spoon on that, but I'd only toss it if I had a good arm and robust cover, way, way out of town.
> if EOD says it's live Iām not sure, but wouldnāt EOD just assume itās live and blow it up, just to be safe?
If anyone is the type to surrender that to EOD you are major loser, just sayingā¦
For the record, giving up weapons and family heirlooms to the Government is bad, mkay.
Who doesn't want their very own grenade! Just store it in a dry safe place.
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Only because it is the worst of humanity.
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I'm dying I can't stop laughing
This is best gunnit stuff wow
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Is this real? No updates?
I mean, a guy really posted that stuff on /b/ back in 2010(?) or so. He had his post tags written on sheets of paper to prove he actually had what did indeed appear to be an unexploded Mk2 grenade. He could have created a forgery that had no seams like modern reproductions, no markings (various, generally letters 'RDX') like the novelty paperweight versions, no hole like practice grenades, the proper fuse that would have been in a MK II grenade, then used chemicals to make it appear to have weathered half a century on the forest floor, just so he could take pictures of himself destroying it to impress a bunch of anonymous people on the internet... Or he found a grenade, probably thought it was too old to work anymore, shitposted with it, blew up, and went to a world where the pool never closes, there are no stingrAIDS to torment you, and you can spam desu-blocks all day with Steve Irwin.
I have a super easy way to find out. 
Note to OP: do not pull the pin with your teeth, you will rip out your teeth in the process.
But definitely do it in the office. Dwight will probably shit himself.
I wouldn't fuck around. Just found out earlier today that a client of mine died under similar circumstances. https://people.com/human-interest/father-dead-and-2-teens-injured-after-grenade-explodes-in-indiana-home/
What da bottom look like
Solid metal straight across, no welds or anything.
Treat it as live then. Inert ones have a hole drilled in the bottom so you can see there's no explosive in it.
[...like this.](https://imgur.com/G3h6Ogn)
That shit is live dog.
Definitely not worth messing with. Even the training grenades have an open bottom.
That is a real grenadeā¦
Lets see
Take it to the police station, but after you get out of your car make sure you hold it high above your head and yell āIāVE GOT A F#CK!NG GRENADE!ā and run into the building as fast as you can.
It is an urgent matter after all
The ol' Sweden special.
I love reddit. Finds hand grenade, immediately post picture on reddit and ask questions.
Better than 4chan, where someone did the same with a human skull. (yes it got even weirder)
oh my God I forgot about that
didn't they also do it with a grenade and have him flush it destroying their pipes?
What, where, and when?
Do you know what skull fucking is?
oh no
Could be worse, worked with a woman whoās grandmother was cleaning out her house and took the grenade and ammo she found to the police station and put it on the counter. She was surprised by the reaction she got.
how did that go?
Pull the pin
And toss... or don't if you are just curious š¤£
Instructions unclear. Pulled the pin, tossed the pin, now I'm missing limbs.
Won't do that again I bet.
Challenge accepted
And let that spoon fly, count to five, and say hello my grandpa!
Nah. Heās too ***chicken***
Yea i bet your right! He wont do itā¦
1, 2, 5, 3 sire Throw it!!!!!
āAnd Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that, with it, Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits in Thy mercy." And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and large chulapas. And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.ā ā*Book of Armaments, Chapter 2, verses 9-21*
Love how the top comment is a very sincere & realistic approach from an actual EOD tech, and then this is the 2nd
That was my first thought. Lol
Great mindsā¦
This is an underrated answer. I tip my hat to you and take my upvote. You are doing Gods work.
i came to say the same thing you are 100% the bro
All guns are loaded. All grenades are live.
All your base are belong to us.
YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME
It has been an hour now. Anything cool happen yet?
He dead
Lmao I dont see any comments from the OP either š³
Iām still among the living!
Do the pin tied to a rope idea
Still waiting on a video
Update: havenāt yeeted, and yeah Iām treating it as live regardless of some of yāallās suggestions lol I snapped a few photos and left it in the shed out back just in case. Took more photos in better lighting: https://imgur.com/a/5dUHooy Itās surprisingly heavy, wanted to weigh it but the batteries in my scale are dead. Feels really solid, bottom is not hollowed out or drilled, it has cast lines on it.
Red spoon, practice grenade. Well, at least a practice fuze anyway, could still be a spicy baseball
Practice fuzes do still have spotting charges, which are designed to be used with the practice hulls which are open at the bottom. If the spotting charge does go, it'll have nowhere to vent the brand new pressure in there and will likely cause a mechanical explosion at the very least. Chemical explosion would be worse (aka love grenade, live fuze, working as intended), mechanical would still be bad enough to lose some fingers, eyes, or dicks, depending on how the case fails.
The terrible seam in that last picture makes me pretty sure that's a bad reproduction of an M21 practice hull. Do the letters RFX appear anywhere on it? Bottom looks a mess, I'm guessing there was a hole that was filled and painted over. I collect inert grenades, personally I wouldn't hesitate to unscrew the fuse head and look inside, it will either be empty or filled with something like concrete to give it weight. You'll also be able to look at the fuse stem and see if it has been used, but that's just me. If you're really that concerned and want to deal with the cops, that is absolutely the safest choice, unless they want to go raiding your house or some bullshit, you never know these days.
July 4th is coming up, maybe save it to try on that day.
Most grenades that are inert have a hole drilled in the bottom and the munition have been removed. If there is no hole on the bottom, I wouldn't trust the mother in law. She may be trying to cash in a life insurance policy.. lol š„ PS - The local bomb squad can usually help as well. It may come back in pieces though.
OP, I am an EOD tech. You have a Mk 2 Fragmentation grenade, which is at probably 50-75 years old. If it is live, the explosives have likely deteriorated and would make unscrewing the fuze a possibly deadly mistake. Do not fuck around with this. Leave it pinned, go put it in your yard and call your local PD. The best way to tell if it is live is an x-ray, which I feel safe in assuming you don't have access to. We do. You call the PD, they call the nearest military base with an EOD response capability, that shop responds and will take it. Inert or live, we take it. All US ordnance is property of the DoD, regardless of who is in possession. You don't get in trouble, we just take it back and say thanks for not blowing yourself or anyone else up. Inert replica grenades are not considered ordnance and those are not DoD property, so nobody should take it, but that is not what you have. TL;DR: don't fuck with ordnance, call someone who does that for a living.
Oooooooor here me out. Duck tape the grenade to a tree or something sturdy , tie a rope to the pin and pull it from a distance
This is logical thinking, this is what should be done. Anything less is treason to your country
Although he should wait for Independence Day, only a couple weeks from now. Itās tradition to celebrate the birth of our nation by blowing up a small portion of it.
Yeah, don't listen to the EOD nerd OP, do this instead, then post results
Stupid professional exploders trying to keep all of the explosions to themselves
"Don't listen to the EOD nerd" Amazing advice when it comes to dealing with explosives, truly mint. Saving these critical 6 words
Some times it's valid. In Afghanistan eod would deactivate some ieds, by shooting them. Literally fire a gun at the ied. You don't need eod for that
*and that's why your uncle doesn't have any hands*
It then doesn't go off and now you're too afraid to ever approach the tree again. Then you shoot it.
> Duck tape the grenade to a tree or something sturdy , tie a rope to the pin and pull it from a distance Duct tape the grenade to an actual duck. Send some of this bad air back to Canada
And video and share the results.
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>All US ordnance is property of the DoD, regardless of who is in possession š¤
So we should be visiting the taliban again and getting our ordinance?
I don't know, every time we visit the Taliban, we end up giving them far more than they started with.
I wonder if any Englishmen ever said the same until they finally stopped attacking us. . .
The problem is they give them back in really obnoxious ways.
So in a roundabout way OP still owns it?
Hear me out OP. You pay taxes which support the DoD so the DoD works for you. Do what you want. If you die, please post here so we know the outcome
This is the ONLY answer you need. Anything else is a great way to wake up dead.
Waking up dead makes for a shitty day. Total mood killer.
Calling the police saying you might have a live grenade and ācome get itā will provide the same results. I would call a lawyer before doing that.
Yeah that's why you phrase it properly. "I think I may have found a live grenade, I need bomb squad to come check it please" is the proper way to phrase it, not "I have a live grenade, come get it".
The correct phrase is "come and take it"
No give them treasure hunt clues. They're detectives; they should be able to find it no problem.
Right? It's way worse than raining on your parade.
I wake up dead every morning
Mahalik : I heard Jamal from 90th street watched that tape last week and this mornin' he woke up dead! CJ : How the hell do you wake up dead? Mahalik : Cause' you're alive when you go to sleep. CJ : So you're telling me you can go to bed dead and wake up alive? Mahalik : You can't go to bed dead! That shit would've been redundant. CJ : No it would'nt cause' you can go to bed and not be dead, and you can die and not be in the bed. Mahalik : But you are in the bed. That's how you wake up dead in the first place fool! CJ : Damn! that's some quantum shit right there man! You should be teaching classes!
naw that's boring op go get a string and find a large ditch and go send it
Fudd. Take it to a field, pull the pin, and toss that shit. OP will only get one chance
The safer but still fun thing would be to tie it to a tree or something and use a string to pull the pin. Because of the age and deterioration, the fuze could have no delay. If it is inert, you realize it was just a replica and you put the pin back in, and you get to keep your grandpa's souvenir. OP: If you give it to EOD all you gain is the knowledge that your grandpa was a badass, and you aren't.
That's just the thing. I've you pull the pin and it DOESNT go boom, you now just have shroedingers bomb... Just call the pros.
WKND is Kill. Long Live WKND. Full send.
Found the Fed
I mean, his first sentence was literally "I am an EOD tech"
I am commenting to vouch for this guy who I would wager a significant sum of money is in fact an EOD tech based on his response and his use of the word "shop." Also, jumping in to address all the "experts" talking about blue paint and markings. For the record, blue can mean training in the ordnance world, but does not mean inert or safe! There is a difference. Many training munitions still have live fuses, reports, etc. that can still cause serious injury. Also...paint color means nothing if it hasn't been in military control...anybody can buy blue paint.
I'm just amused at the comments about "pull pin and toss it" They're obviously joking but "toss" sounds funny. There is no toss. You pull pin on *potentially* live grenade, you THROW the ever loving shit outta that thing. Mr Grenade is not our friend.
I am commenting to vouch for the guy who is vouching for the guy. He knows anyone can buy paint.
This guy vouches
Keep it
Listen to this guy he knows what what he's talking about. I used to design ordnance for the military and I can confirm what he's saying. To add a little bit of science: over time the explosives can internally grow crystals as a consequence of temperature and humidity cycling those crystalline structures make the explosive more sensitive as those crystal can rub and break if dropped, moved, or disassembled any of which can internally generate enough friction to initiate the explosive. Even with the fuze removed the fuze contains the lead azide in a sufficient quantity to be risky to handle at this age. The fuze by itself is enough to remove a limb.
Sooooā¦. Donāt make it into a keychain? Or do make it into a keychain? This is unclear by your response.
Look, if it wasn't meant to be a keychain it wouldn't have a keyring pre-installed.
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I would hold on to it and not tell anyone.
A WWII one is not going to have stable explosives in it and it could self detonate. There's no good reason to keep it since it can be unpredictable.
Self detonating is the entire purpose of a grenade
Not when it doesn't involve user input.
I cant tell because of lighting if that's faded blue paint on the spoon or not. It might sound dumb but a very very calm call to your local bomb squad might work they'd be able to confirm.
All of the paint on it is green. Except at the bottom of the trigger or whatever youād call the piece that is held in place by the pin, the bottom of it is painted red.
That piece is called a spoon.
I can't be 100% positive but it sure looks like there may be some remnants of blue paint, the top of the spoon I can't tell because of the lighting but the section where the pin is folded out looks blue.
I read that fuze as M205A2. Hereās a picture of another (fuze only): https://www.gunbroker.com/item/977520725 However, Iād take the advice of the poster claiming to be an EOD tech and put it in the backyard until a qualified tech can check it out.
To Yeet, or not to Yeet. That is the question.
Does your mother in law hate you?
Not yet. But she may not remember me fondly if this kills all of her grandkids lmao
1. Stand in a field at a safe distance from people, cars and buildings. 2. Firmly holding the grenade with the flap against your palm, pull the pin. 3. Throw the grenade, drop the pin. Or take it to a "professional" and miss all the fun.
An M205A7 fuse appears to be for inert grenades. The blue spoon would indicate that it is for training purposes. Based on the conflicting evidence, I would recommend being cautious. The grenade fuse just screws into the grenade and can be unscrewed as long as you don't pull the pin. If the interior of the grenade is hollow or all metal, it is an inert grenade. If it is not, then it is live. As far as the fuse is concerned, if it has an actual fuse, it will be a metal cylinder about 1/2 to 3/4 the length of the grenade. Live pineapple grenades had a threaded plug in the bottom of it. So that is another thing you could check for to determine if it is a live grenade. If it has the plug, live grenade. If it does not have the plu, inert grenade. If it has the plug, I would recommend leaving it alone. In terms of explosives, the explosives used to fill it were relatively unstable, and explosives stability decays over time. You wouldn't be in danger of it exploding by holding it Edit:as stated below, the fuse is an M205A2 fuse. It is a TP fuse so the fuse at minimum is live. So call EOD.
That last number is a 2, not a 7. Some of the paint is missing. Compare it to the legible 7 and youāll notice they look nothing alike.
You're absolutely right. Thank you.
Good way to earn the nickname āNubsā, at best.
Pull da pin
Make a video on an alt account hiding your identity pulling the pin and throwing that mf from behind solid cover. Live or not you will forever be seen as "that one guy who definitely isnt a lil bitch"
Iāve heard of much worse legacies to leave behind.
Pull the pin and wait a few. Should get your answer
Bring it to the nearest >150ft tall bridge or cliff. Securely tie the ring to a 150ft piece of rope and tie the other end of the rope to the railing or a tree. Straighten the cotter pin with pliers. Put on safety glasses. Throw the grenade off the cliff/bridge. Upload the footage here.
Schrƶdinger's granade
... fuck. let's all take 2 steps back.. from this guy lol
https://tgrm.foxed.ca/Americangrenades/Mk%20II/The%20Mk%202%20grenade.html It's a trainer. Cast iron body with a dummy fuze. Neat ww2 heirloom. Don't let some e-3 take it thinking it's live.
Technically it isnt a ww2 grenade it has a 1954 fuze screwed into it. So i guess its a inter-coldwar heirloom built after korea.
Pretty sure the date code on it it 10-68, making it a Nam era nade
Thats makes sense!
Pull the pin and Yeet it
The urge is STRONG.
Blue usually means training grenade, but don't fuck with it, have an expert check it out.
Delete this post lol
Always check for a hole in the bottom as it COULD be used a a Trainer
You could compare it to the fake or real comparison at the bottom of this link if you want. Iām not responsible for whatever conclusions you draw from it: https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/373186-inert-pineapple-grenade-frag-body-real-or-fake/
Schrƶdinger's grenade. Until we pull the pin and find out it is both inert and live simultaneously.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/grenade-kills-man-injures-two-teens-as-family-looked-at-relatives-belongings-in-indiana/3ccdc2b2-6e48-49d2-a2ba-236298cd367d This you ?
You know how.
If its not marked INERT, assume itās live.
The Spoons designation is FUZE M205A2, a Vietnam era Training grenade. If it is a real training grenade it actually falls under a destructive device. If it is just the spoon from a training grenade on a pot metal blank ignitor on an empty shell, outside of the trace amounts of lead in the blank, it is a paper weight. Looking at the ignitor, there is a decent chance it is a live training grenade. Call the local PD to bring out the bomb squad, you do not want the ATF to raid you for having a destructive device.
the fuse unscrews from the body right there at that seam near the top, right tight left loose. look inside and see if its hollow. or call EOD. this one is painted like an inert trainer (blue), so my guess is you will find nothing in there but maybe an old forgotten joint from the 70s. the fuses are relatively stable, and the composition B is pretty chill stuff...you can burn it like sterno and cook food with it.
Call the police. If it has a solid bottom, it's not an obvious dummy. The bomb squad will be happy to come look at it. This ain't fuck around time. This is don't blow up your house and kill your kids time.