What kind of ammo can is this?

[+-CacheMonkey-]

I picked up this ammo can, at least I think it's an ammo can, from a surplus store near Ft. Lewis today. I neglected to ask what it was used for. Can anybody throw me a bone here? I have no clue. Was thinking maybe a mortar round or something. Sorry for the link, I couldn't get the insert photo to work.

Photo of Strange Ammo Can Here!!!

[+Sparticus06]

Aint got a clue, but it sure is cool looking.

[+DaFunkyFrogs]

I don't know either, but I want one!

[+PhxChem]

Does a giant sping snake pop out?

 

It's cool.......me want one!!

[+WRASTRO]

I would guess that anyone who could truly answer your question would then have to kill you.

[4wheelin_fool]

I picked up this ammo can, at least I think it's an ammo can, from a surplus store near Ft. Lewis today. I neglected to ask what it was used for. Can anybody throw me a bone here? I have no clue. Was thinking maybe a mortar round or something. Sorry for the link, I couldn't get the insert photo to work.

Photo of Strange Ammo Can Here!!!

 

It appears to be a portable human waste disposal unit.

[+karstic]

Probably something out of eastern Europe/Russia

[+doingitoldschool]

It looks big enough to be a container for a ship's cannon shell or an artillery shell. Mind you, I don't even know if those rounds come in containers.

[+JohnnyVegas]

It almost looks like an container I saw maybe 30 years ago the was for a Bazooka rocket.

My guess it is for a rocket of somt sort.

[Cache Whisperer]

It isn't an ammocan at all.

 

It's a geocache.

[+Crid]

It looks big enough to be a container for a ship's cannon shell or an artillery shell.

 

I don't think they'd camouflage a ship's cannon shell green. You don't find much undergrowth at sea.

Edited June 6, 2008 by Crid

[+GSVNoFixedAbode]

You could try some of the military collector websites / forums: those people can be almost as obsessed about containers as, well, us.

 

I picked up this big puppy for an island cache and only took a day or so to get my answer from a Collectors Forum:

 

...ammunition can for the 20mm Oerlikon (Navy) gun. From memory the can held 180 rounds in individual carboard tubes...

[+BBWolf+3Pigs]

Could be for a tank's main gun round, or some sort of artillery round.

 

Can I ask you how much you paid for it, and if they had any left?

[+D@nim@l]

I have one sitting in my garage and know of a very cool cache made from one, but what it held originally I am not sure. Most likely some sort of mortar round.

 

Edit to add:

 

I walked out to my garage and my label is in tact. It is a cannon load of some sort.

 

Here is something I found: Storage Tube

 

The NATO part makes since there is German, Italian and French written on it.

Edited June 6, 2008 by D@nim@l

[+DonB]

I picked up this ammo can, at least I think it's an ammo can, from a surplus store near Ft. Lewis today. I neglected to ask what it was used for. Can anybody throw me a bone here? I have no clue. Was thinking maybe a mortar round or something. Sorry for the link, I couldn't get the insert photo to work.

Photo of Strange Ammo Can Here!!!

It might be for an RPG, I have seen metal ones but this might be a newer version, it looks like about the right length and diameter.

[+Totem Clan]

It hard to say because all the markings are covered but it looks like a tube for a 105mm round.

[+GPSlug]

mil-spec pringles

[+Totem Clan]

mil-spec pringles

[+ArcherDragoon]

I picked up this ammo can, at least I think it's an ammo can, from a surplus store near Ft. Lewis today. I neglected to ask what it was used for. Can anybody throw me a bone here? I have no clue. Was thinking maybe a mortar round or something. Sorry for the link, I couldn't get the insert photo to work.

Photo of Strange Ammo Can Here!!!

There is a cache in Minnesota that uses that!!! The cache page calls it a German Ammo Can...so...maybe, just maybe that is true. Considering a couple of the posts say possible European Origin...

[+nashuan]

It isn't an ammocan at all.

 

It's a geocache.

 

Great answer

[+sequens vitae mortem]

I picked up this ammo can, at least I think it's an ammo can, from a surplus store near Ft. Lewis today. I neglected to ask what it was used for. Can anybody throw me a bone here? I have no clue. Was thinking maybe a mortar round or something. Sorry for the link, I couldn't get the insert photo to work.

Photo of Strange Ammo Can Here!!!

It might be for an RPG, I have seen metal ones but this might be a newer version, it looks like about the right length and diameter.

 

It is for an RPG. I was just in a guns and ammo store a few days ago, and they had one of these babies on display. It would be a super cool cache container!

[+whistler & co.]

Here's another bizaare "ammo can" thing that is used as a cache container:

 

[+Voodoo7]

The Pringgle Can is the best answer! Coffee almost came out of my nose on that one LOL

[+The Leprechauns]

I own a cache in a similar (but not identical) container, for a military rocket. It's gotten dozens and dozens of logs over five years that say "cool container!"

 

I made sure I hid this cache in a remote area of a local park, and it's there with the park's knowledge. Don't hide a container like this in a spot that would provoke a bomb squad practice session.

[+-CacheMonkey-]

Could be for a tank's main gun round, or some sort of artillery round.

 

Can I ask you how much you paid for it, and if they had any left?

 

$10 and they had 2 or 3 others also.

[+-CacheMonkey-]

I have one sitting in my garage and know of a very cool cache made from one, but what it held originally I am not sure. Most likely some sort of mortar round.

 

Edit to add:

 

I walked out to my garage and my label is in tact. It is a cannon load of some sort.

 

Here is something I found: Storage Tube

 

The NATO part makes since there is German, Italian and French written on it.

 

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS!!! THANKS D@NIM@L!!

[+infiniteMPG]

I picked up this ammo can, at least I think it's an ammo can, from a surplus store near Ft. Lewis today. I neglected to ask what it was used for. Can anybody throw me a bone here? I have no clue. Was thinking maybe a mortar round or something. Sorry for the link, I couldn't get the insert photo to work.

I was thinking it was the holder for the new extended life battery for the Garmin Colorado 400 so it will last as long as the 60CSx

[+Unkle Fester]

Not for pringles, Spuddies, 'cause with Spuddies, enough is never enough.

 

I liked the extended battery too. LOL!

[knowschad]

There is a cache in Minnesota that uses that!!! The cache page calls it a German Ammo Can...so...maybe, just maybe that is true. Considering a couple of the posts say possible European Origin...

 

You beat me to it, Archer!! Here's the link: GC3128

[+Castle Mischief]

Dood, that is one super-cool looking container. I'm going to have to raid (shop at) my local Military Surplus store and see if they have any.

[+infiniteMPG]

Dood, that is one super-cool looking container. I'm going to have to raid (shop at) my local Military Surplus store and see if they have any.

The only surplus store in the local area said the other day they are totally out of ammo cans and are not expecting any in any time soon. They said some line of BS about their supplier is starting to shread them down to be recycled and they couldn't get more... Huh???? Anyone else hear anything like this?

 

But started shopping online full time, save about 75% on cost (even with shipping) and get the things in 3-4 days.

[AZcachemeister]

Dood, that is one super-cool looking container. I'm going to have to raid (shop at) my local Military Surplus store and see if they have any.

The only surplus store in the local area said the other day they are totally out of ammo cans and are not expecting any in any time soon. They said some line of BS about their supplier is starting to shread them down to be recycled and they couldn't get more... Huh???? Anyone else hear anything like this?

 

But started shopping online full time, save about 75% on cost (even with shipping) and get the things in 3-4 days.

 

That's got to be total B.S.!

The steel in a typical ammo can can't be worth more than a few cents, while the intact can is certainly going to go for a few dollars.

[+Bill-Chapman]

when I was a 13 bravo in the ARMY on a M109 Howitzer, we used similar looking containers for our Powder charges.

The ARMY uses 2 seperate types of ammo in Artillary, Fixed & Seperate loading.

Fixed loads look like Bullets on Steroids.

Seperate loading like the type I fired used a seperate projectile & Powder charge,which can be tuned by using designated increments.Which is why the Canister is so long(for the really big Boom)

[+BBWolf+3Pigs]

How about these two for caches? I've seen teh first one used for a cache!

 

155mm Howitzer Storgae Tube

 

40" Storage Tube

 

But check out the weights! These are big and heavy!

[+DonB]

I picked up this ammo can, at least I think it's an ammo can, from a surplus store near Ft. Lewis today. I neglected to ask what it was used for. Can anybody throw me a bone here? I have no clue. Was thinking maybe a mortar round or something. Sorry for the link, I couldn't get the insert photo to work.

Photo of Strange Ammo Can Here!!!

It might be for an RPG, I have seen metal ones but this might be a newer version, it looks like about the right length and diameter.

 

It is for an RPG. I was just in a guns and ammo store a few days ago, and they had one of these babies on display. It would be a super cool cache container!

They are using one for GC9E5E.

[+BlackRok]

I remember searching for this can as well, since I have one too!

I think it is a Swiss Rocket Tube from WWII! (circa 1940's)

 

Mine is missing the latch, but could not pass it up for $1.50

I remember there being a picture of a backpack that could hold 3 or 4 of those as well!

 

Found mine at an antique shop in Pigeon Forge Tn.

 

Hope this helps!

 

BlAcKrOk

[+Insane Kangaroo]

You sure its a storage tube or is it long enough to be part of a stokes mortar?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes_Mortar

 

Edited June 9, 2008 by Insane Kangaroo

[+lrosell]

Wouldn't the ultimate size ammo-can be an old used ICBM silo? Just imagine the amount of Dollar General swag it could hold.

Edited June 9, 2008 by lrosell