Bavaria Mike
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- Feb 7, 2005
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- Minelab XT70, Fisher 1280, Garrett Ace 250 and MH5
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I had to work this Thanksgiving Day. Not a problem as my German family did not have the holiday and the kids were in school. I did have a nice lunch with our American soldiers, ate turkey, lobster, shrimp and steamship round and I can’t believe I ate the whole thing, I’m still stuffed with no desire for dinner! We are setting up for a big military exercise, it happens to be in serious Celtic country, a very beautiful area that I turned down over 20 years ago. Thought I would get some prime time on some fields and a chance at Celtic gold coins today but it didn’t happen. I did do some detecting on the military post, explored some WWII areas and still had a good time even though the Celtic hunt was out due to delivery time changes. My finds for the day was about $0.70 in American change, 2 toy cars and a hand full of shot brass cartridges from different periods of WWII to modern American. No pictures of the finds but, here is some of the interesting things I saw today. First pic is of an exploded WWII German bunker, must have taken a serious explosion to blow this thick concrete bunker.
A closer look at the thick corner wall and the 4’ thick roof.
Near the middle of the collapsed concrete roof I found this mangled mess of metal underneath, looks like the remnants of a FLAK gun turret for anti aircraft.
This is a Russian T54 tank, maximum range of about 1300 meters. Compared to the American M1 Abrams tank of about 4000 meters of maximum effective range, you could safely sleep at night during the Russian cold war as they had no chance even though they outnumbered our tanks something like three to one! Good thing the Russians never struck against us as we would own Russia and your taxes would have gone up to pay for it.
Here’s a Russian BMP, has some armament effective to 1300 meters and could carry 11 or so troopies. Not very effective against American technology.
And this is a mock up American vehicle only meant to do simulations on the battle field, it is a simulated bad guy to Americans. The wimpy tube of a cannon actually fires a laser beam and not a round. HH, Mike
A closer look at the thick corner wall and the 4’ thick roof.
Near the middle of the collapsed concrete roof I found this mangled mess of metal underneath, looks like the remnants of a FLAK gun turret for anti aircraft.
This is a Russian T54 tank, maximum range of about 1300 meters. Compared to the American M1 Abrams tank of about 4000 meters of maximum effective range, you could safely sleep at night during the Russian cold war as they had no chance even though they outnumbered our tanks something like three to one! Good thing the Russians never struck against us as we would own Russia and your taxes would have gone up to pay for it.
Here’s a Russian BMP, has some armament effective to 1300 meters and could carry 11 or so troopies. Not very effective against American technology.
And this is a mock up American vehicle only meant to do simulations on the battle field, it is a simulated bad guy to Americans. The wimpy tube of a cannon actually fires a laser beam and not a round. HH, Mike
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