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Offline bangsbox

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anyone know what happen to this sherman?
« on: December 26, 2014, 02:15:44 PM »

Offline Guppy35

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Re: anyone know what happen to this sherman?
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2014, 02:45:34 PM »
Looks to be a target on some army's firing range.  They were used for that often post war
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Re: anyone know what happen to this sherman?
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2014, 03:00:24 PM »
Target.

From the uniform, size of penetration and angle, which is most apparent on the barrell. I would guess this is from Germany, 1980s and the dirty work of the GAU-30mm from an A-10.

Just my guess.

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Re: anyone know what happen to this sherman?
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2014, 04:19:25 PM »
It went quail hunting with Dick Cheney?
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Re: anyone know what happen to this sherman?
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2014, 04:42:54 PM »
It went quail hunting with Dick Cheney?


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Re: anyone know what happen to this sherman?
« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2014, 04:48:00 PM »
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Re: anyone know what happen to this sherman?
« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2014, 06:38:26 PM »
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Re: anyone know what happen to this sherman?
« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2014, 10:16:43 AM »
Wish I had it to carry to the scrap yard iron at 12 bucks a 100 pounds . Be a nice little pocket full of money .
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Re: anyone know what happen to this sherman?
« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2014, 01:09:28 PM »
Termites?
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Re: anyone know what happen to this sherman?
« Reply #9 on: December 27, 2014, 03:45:36 PM »
Hundreds of hits by 3.5RL, M72 and Carl Gustav via ex Cdn armour soldier