M24 STICKGRENADE

250,00 €

Product no. 4-367

1 in stock

1 in stock

Category: Deactivated Firearms and Ordnance
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The Stielhandgranate 24 (M24) was the standard German infantry hand grenade of the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht. It was a refinement of the First World War stick grenades and entered service in the mid-1920s. It has a thin sheet-steel head with an explosive filling, screwed onto a hollow wooden handle that holds a Brennzünder 24 friction igniter. The user unscrewed a metal cap at the end of the handle and pulled a cord ending in a porcelain bead. This started a delay of roughly four and a half seconds before the detonator fired. It was an offensive blast grenade that relied on concussion rather than fragmentation. Detonators were packed separately, so early heads were stencilled with a reminder to insert one before use. This stencil was dropped from production in April 1940, and a painted weatherproofing band disappeared around 1941–42. Collectors date examples by the head-to-handle thread and attachment type, the presence of the stencil, maker codes, Waffenamt stamps and inked filler markings. Related types include the cold-weather 'K' filling, the Nebelhandgranate smoke version, the red-marked Übungs training grenade, and the simplified Stielhandgranate 43 of 1944.

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