cal 50 with pink colour tip

[phil6780]

hello

some years ago, y found a .50 cartridge with a pink colour tip. Can someboby help me to identify the kind of ammunition it is. (official name or nomenclature M??, technical information, period of production ,...)The headstamp is SL 43.
I have found a picture of the same cartridge on the web page

http://www.big-ordnance.com/50cal/50browning.htm

and this cartridge is classified as armor piercing , molybdenum


http://i7.tinypic.com/2rpaadc.jpg
Picture of my cartridge
thank you for helping me,

[Flying Dutchman]

Hi Phil,

there were test series for the .50BMG-AP with different cores for the bullet.
One of those had a pink/black or pink bullet tip. core was made of
molybdenum-chromium-nickel.
BUT . . these test were done by Frankfort Arsenal and specimens known
have headstamps FA 44. not SL.
Could your be "home-made" by somebody ?? Also compared to the tracer,
the pink tip is pretty big

cheers
FD

[phil6780]

thank you for this answer.
I don't know the story of this catridge. I just know that my specimen has been found in the years 1971-72 in Grand duché de Luxembourg. The people that had found it say's me that it was given by a farmer.

I know that a collector in south of france have an other specimen. The headstamp of his specimen is SL 43 too.

It seems that a serie of this cartridge has been product with headstamps SL 43 (there are 2 specimens in europe and one in the USA ).

Do you have informations ( like web links, books,... where i may find more details about this kind of cartridges)

cheers

[Flying Dutchman]

Hi Phil,

in another forum I was told that this is an "ordinary" tracer bullet.
The colour wasn't 100% right, but in 1943 they had other problems

cheers
FD

[phil6780]

thanks, FD,

do you have the name or the link of this forum ?

[x]

thanks, FD,

do you have the name or the link of this forum ?

http://cartridgecollectors.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=1

[phil6780]

Hi, X
thank you very mutch for those precisions,

cheers,

phil