A friend has the bullet that was removed from his dad in WW II. 8mm
German; it has a blue core. What would that core be?

On 2015-11-12, wrote:
A friend has the bullet that was removed from his dad in WW II. 8mm
German; it has a blue core. What would that core be?

I am guessing hardened heat treated steel, test it with a magnet.

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On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 05:20:43 -0600, Ignoramus885 wrote:

On 2015-11-12, wrote:
A friend has the bullet that was removed from his dad in WW II. 8mm
German; it has a blue core. What would that core be?

I am guessing hardened heat treated steel, test it with a magnet.

Weren't German WWII bullets steel-jacketed lead? I'm thinking the blue
core could be corroded lead, or maybe copper.

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On 2015-11-12, Tim Wescott wrote:
On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 05:20:43 -0600, Ignoramus885 wrote:

On 2015-11-12, wrote:
A friend has the bullet that was removed from his dad in WW II. 8mm
German; it has a blue core. What would that core be?

I am guessing hardened heat treated steel, test it with a magnet.

Weren't German WWII bullets steel-jacketed lead? I'm thinking the blue
core could be corroded lead, or maybe copper.


this is what a magnet is for, inspead of speculating he will know in a
minute

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On 2015-11-12, Tim Wescott wrote:
On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 05:20:43 -0600, Ignoramus885 wrote:

On 2015-11-12, wrote:
A friend has the bullet that was removed from his dad in WW II. 8mm
German; it has a blue core. What would that core be?

I am guessing hardened heat treated steel, test it with a magnet.

Weren't German WWII bullets steel-jacketed lead? I'm thinking the blue
core could be corroded lead, or maybe copper.


this is what a magnet is for, inspead of speculating he will know in a
minute


A magnet will not prove either of your theory's. It will prove that steel is
present, but was it the core or jacket that caused the attraction.


Robert

On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:04:15 -0600, wrote:

A friend has the bullet that was removed from his dad in WW II. 8mm
German; it has a blue core. What would that core be?

Huh! Musta hit a Smurf on the way in.

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On 2015-11-12, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:04:15 -0600, wrote:

A friend has the bullet that was removed from his dad in WW II. 8mm
German; it has a blue core. What would that core be?

Huh! Musta hit a Smurf on the way in.

I've seen really old copper-jacketed lead which does look sorta
blue. Not like blued steel -- more like a medium light blue chalk. I
figure that is the result of electrolytic corrosion between the copper
jacket and the lead core (which may be inside-out in the example above,
though 8mm German would be "hard ball" (that is, solid tip), since the
military consider a wound ties up more personnel than a kill does.

Obviously, his dad survived. I wonder what the range was? At
close range, I would consider military 8mm to be likely to punch on
through.

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I'd put it under a microscope or eye lope.

It might be a heavy mineral like Lapus, or some of the coppers.
It needs to be examined by a pro or just yourself. It might
be a composite mixture like a sealing that is covering up something
nasty like tracer bullet. Burn anything.

I'd be careful, but likely it has been already been iD'd by doctors
or else. Maybe not if in the field...

We need more than color and a bullet - German is a big hint - all
sorts of this and that were tried.

Might be a sniper ID. Our bullets are marked with outside rings of
color and some colors indicate core content. But our bullets are FMJ.

Martin

On 11/12/2015 12:04 AM, wrote:
A friend has the bullet that was removed from his dad in WW II. 8mm
German; it has a blue core. What would that core be?

On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 20:49:11 -0600, Martin Eastburn
wrote:

I'd put it under a microscope or eye lope.

It might be a heavy mineral like Lapus, or some of the coppers.
It needs to be examined by a pro or just yourself. It might
be a composite mixture like a sealing that is covering up something
nasty like tracer bullet. Burn anything.

I'd be careful, but likely it has been already been iD'd by doctors
or else. Maybe not if in the field...

We need more than color and a bullet - German is a big hint - all
sorts of this and that were tried.

Might be a sniper ID. Our bullets are marked with outside rings of
color and some colors indicate core content. But our bullets are FMJ.

Martin

I believe that the German WW II ammunition was also full metal jacket.
But the Germans also used a color coding and blue was used to identify
some lots of armour piercing munitions, although in the examples I've
seen it was marking on the cartridge base, not the bullet.

On 11/12/2015 12:04 AM, wrote:
A friend has the bullet that was removed from his dad in WW II. 8mm
German; it has a blue core. What would that core be?

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John B.

On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:04:15 -0600, wrote:

A friend has the bullet that was removed from his dad in WW II. 8mm
German; it has a blue core. What would that core be?

This bullet is one of five that hit him. This one passed through his
pelvis and was removed from under his armpit.

Here is photo.
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On 11/20/2015 11:58 AM, wrote:
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Here is photo.
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