Cal 50BMG black & blue ID please.

[me6_130]

My ammo field is mostly German WWII but I've had this Cal.50 for some time and I don't know what it is. The black and blue bullet, the one at the left, marked DM43 (Des Moines 1943). Thanks in advance.

Carles

[pionier]

See link from a dutch relic hunting forum.

http://www.bodem-vondsten.nl/Amerika...odes-30-45-50/

[Quest Master]

Black is armor piercing and blue is incendiary. BTW red is for tracer and silver is armor piercing incendiary.

[me6_130]

Thanks,

I did know that black is for AP and blue for Incendiary, but I have never found the whole bullet body painted black, only the tip. A regular AP-incendiary would have blue tip over a black tip, so the black tip would appear as a ring.

Carles