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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: PegLeg45 on March 01, 2016, 05:12:01 PM
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http://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/75-rounds-of-ammunition-found-underneath-house-nearby-homes-evacuated
75 rounds of ammunition found underneath house, nearby homes evacuated
The San Antonio Police Department's Bomb Squad was called to a Southwest Side neighborhood Saturday after dozens of rounds of ammunition were found underneath a home.
The ammunition was discovered on the 7900 block of Dempsey Drive, near Old Pearsall Road and Southwest Military Drive, around 2:45 p.m. Saturday.
Capt. Troy Balcar of the San Antonio Fire Department said a family member found a sealed box with about 75 rounds of decades-old ammunition underneath the house. He said the rounds are .40 caliber and about 40 years old, based on a date written on the box. Half a dozen nearby homes were evacuated for about three hours.
"This is definitely a big danger, because they've been under there so long," Balcar said. "They've rusted, they've been exposed to the weather, elements outside so we definitely want to get them disposed of as quickly as possible."
Family members said a veteran who served for more than 30 years lived at the house until he passed away recently.
This is the second time old ammunition has been found at the home. Just last week, the bomb squad spent about half an hour disposing of shotgun shells found there.
Thought you guys would get a kick out of this.
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I have more than that in the table next to my easy chair!
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At least someone stopped the Chicken Little Crisis before they had a demolition team rig a pile of explosives and take out half a city block.
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The cops had the EOD people from Lackland AFB com in and haul it off.
This makes me think it might have been 40mm something or other and just reported wrong by the local press.
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The cops had the EOD people from Lackland AFB com in and haul it off.
This makes me think it might have been 40mm something or other and just reported wrong by the local press.
Ahh...that sounds likely. 40mm grenade souvenirs from the Vietnam era....
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Ahh...that sounds likely. 40mm grenade souvenirs from the Vietnam era....
They had the same reaction to shotgun shells so it probably was just .40 caliber.
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They had the same reaction to shotgun shells so it probably was just .40 caliber.
If so I bet the EOD people were laughing their asses off.
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Gets boring sitting around the station. Great training run for EOD.
So far, all I've found is some news sources say "crate" of ammo.
Most of them say the box was decades, some say 40, years old.
And they all attribute it to the previous owner, a WWII vet.
.40 S&W wasn't introduced until 1990, which makes it 36 years old.
Probably mid, late '90s before pistols were readily available. So I'm thinking this wasn't .40 ammo but 40mm ammo of some type
Which then begs the question as to what type of "shotgun" shells were previously discovered. Could have been M79 grenades?