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diamondjim said:
I'm totally in for Russian vacation...no passport either, but I'll get one. Think they'll me let sneak out a T-34 in my shorts? What's the cost of a flight to Moscow anyways? No luggage...just detectors :-) Rent a "car" and slum around the back woods of Moscow...I'm so in! August better for me, but what's the weather like there in Aug? Dekalb got an international airport now? :-) Probably put you on a 2-seater, wind up the rubber band and send you to O'Hare. I'm serious too...always wanted to visit Russia anyways...but this is way more fun! So put down those scissors and start saving some dough.

Nahabit: Don't understand "How you live with him", can you try to explain it? Your english is really pretty good! But sometimes it's difficult to understand. We couldn't even get on the plane to Russia without a passport, BUT we can travel to Canada and Mexico without one. So most Americans don't have passports.

I had in view of as you живеш WITHOUT the passport? To rent the machine it is not necessary the machine there is at me, a cost of good hotel in moscow region 50 dollars day and even more cheaply, the ticket up to Moscow learn at Dekalb he now prosecutes this subjects. August at us hot but very high grass approximately 1.5-2 meters in height. At such grass extrim to dig! And that from for your severe laws you very much many relics cannot transport the most unpleasant through the airport and border. write me you questions on email
 

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tinpan said:
hi jim going to russia sound like a great idea. i got a passport and if some buys me a ticket, i will carry the bags.mding all day for war relics and a night with nice russian ladies and lots of vodka. this sound like a great idea.hay jim if ever find a bag of cash remember me. lol lol
tinpan
Lady and vodka - at us it is very easy and simple - to especially such guys as you! To you the blonde or brunet?:)
The main thing that about it was was found out by your wife:)))))) ;D
 

Re: Someone else's bad day!

diamondjim said:
Sorry, no lawn mowers, cars, atv's in this section of woods :-) Ice could rip, but not deform case this way. One way or another, this dude exploded. Casing not just ripped open, but mushroomed out.

I don't worry too much about live rounds anymore...in fact I might take a few down to hocking county (WAY out in the country on a friends 150 acre farm) and try to set them off intentionally under safe circumstances and see if there is any danger of old rounds in the ground. I need as big of a sample as possible and I only have a few, any donations for the project?

Sure the stuff Nahabit is digging can still be pretty lethal...but when's the last time any of us in the US dug a landmine? Grenade? So what is the real risk factor of unearthing a live 7.62 round? How does age affect it?

I shall try to explain in detail German patrons were made of a brass and consequently there are in a fine condition later 60 years, the bullet in German patrons was made of lead in a steel environment and frequently decays. During a finding in the ground in a patron water and the become wet gunpowder any more sometimes gets does not represent threat and cannot light up or blow up. However from for very high quality manufacturing птронов in the German industry water almost never gets inside and patrons in general that can blow up if to throw them in a fire. Without fire they are completely safe. Russian patrons were made of steel and almost completely decay in the ground only a bullet was made of copper - and here a bullet only and kept. Russian patrons in general cannot be taken in calculation. As to mines trotyl which they are supplied till now is explosive - therefore at a find of a mine or pomegranates it is IMPOSSIBLE to touch and move her from a place, all over again it is necessary to be convinced of absence of a detonator and then only it is possible to take her in hands and to disassemble on a souvenir:)
 

Re: Someone else's bad day!

diamondjim said:
Lady's...hmmm...I'll take the blonde, well OK, maybe the brunet too :-) I won't tell the wives if you don't :-)

Thanks for the great info about live rounds in the gorund! When we get there, we'll trust our lives to your skill! We don't know how to dig this kind of area, you'll teach us? D and I are interested in mostly small artifacts, small shell casings without bullets, coins, rings, medals, maybe a helmet or two...those we can ship home through customs easily, but not take on the airplane with us. Might raise a lot of questions! But more important than artifacts, the experience of digging with you so far home would be worth it! No live ammo going home with us! You keep whatever we dig but can't ship home.
We to you shall treble helmets:) the rest too:)
 

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