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Booby trap Mills ?
- Thread starter ludokhan
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Not obvious (to me at least).
Assuming there are no images of it disassembled, an image with good illumination to show what is under the curved metal tongue would be helpful to reduce any wild speculation.
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No, the ammunition is not intended to be disassembled. It will be destroyed.
However, if no one has ever observed another similar grenade,
(Frankly, I don’t understand how this can work., there is no striker inside)
It is probably the creation of a freak in his garage.
thx Snufkin
I agree that the "mechanism" does not seem to have any function, so likely the work of some enthusiast in the past.
No markings on base plug to be seen, it never stops to amaze me that people want identification but the most important things like markings are no shown.
Finally, the ''risk-assement'' allowed the dismantling. The center piece was empty, a simple grenade with a small tinkering.
I saw a base plug like that on a No 23 grenade in Northern Ireland in 1982.