viper771
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Well, no weapons yet. But the good news is, I know where to look for them now. I have about 50 lbs of shrapnel in the garage(seriously), and left a lot sitting on tree stumps in the woods to mark my path. Some of the pieces are about a foot long! I am not talking about just frag grenade pieces, im talking HEAVY ARTY PIECES! The place was hit really really hard by arty. I found the remains of a motar tube, but I didn't take picts of it yesterday. I was in a hurry to find where the weapons cache was located. I will go back out there and hunt around it some more. After a lot of hunting yesterday, I found a LOT of shrapnel, 2 mine fuses, a hatch? that looks like it was on the side of a turret where you would eject your empty shells out of (don't quote me on that though, still researching). I didn't find many bullets out in this area. A few shell casings, but thats it. All the fighting positions I found had no bullet casings, or bullets in them. But just about every one of them had a grenade fragment in them, or some HE shrapnel. So they must of retreated elsewhere when it started to come down.
Today, my friend and I found some really good stuff. We located where all the stuff was buried, blown up, etc. Some of the stuff is really buried in some muddy water, so it is preserved nicely. I pulled out a few bullets that have no rust on them at all! We found 2 anti tank round warheads(they are solid), the one that is kind of shorter than the other weighs 30 lbs!!! The longer one looks kind of squished, and the detonator it had in the nose was taken out. I found 4 large steel shell casings, and I bought 2 home (the smaller on is in the picture, the other one is down in the car still). We also found parts off a anti tank gun, some bottoms of large shell casings where the thinner metal rusted away, and some nice bullets. I hope to do some more digging when I have time and the weather is nice. The buried guns are out there, and I know where to look
Hopefully, they are as preserved as the stuff we pulled out today. The warheads aren't dangerous. They are solid, like a solid cannonball. If I forget to add anything, I will add it later. I am going to build an electrolysis machine this weekend, so my finds should clean up a lot better (and it will make the wife happier since I am moving my operation into the garage, rather than the kitchen) Thanks for looking!
pict1: all the finds (minus the shrapnel). You can see that tank turret hatch thing on the right hand side. It has holes going around it.
pict2: 2 mine fuses, they have a bakelight shaft, and the tops have the pins in them still. They are kind of rusty
pict3: a close up of the 2 warheads, one smaller sized casing, and the 2 bottoms of casings that rotted away
pict4: close up of the shells themselves. The one on the left weighs 30 lbs!!!
Enjoy
Today, my friend and I found some really good stuff. We located where all the stuff was buried, blown up, etc. Some of the stuff is really buried in some muddy water, so it is preserved nicely. I pulled out a few bullets that have no rust on them at all! We found 2 anti tank round warheads(they are solid), the one that is kind of shorter than the other weighs 30 lbs!!! The longer one looks kind of squished, and the detonator it had in the nose was taken out. I found 4 large steel shell casings, and I bought 2 home (the smaller on is in the picture, the other one is down in the car still). We also found parts off a anti tank gun, some bottoms of large shell casings where the thinner metal rusted away, and some nice bullets. I hope to do some more digging when I have time and the weather is nice. The buried guns are out there, and I know where to look
Hopefully, they are as preserved as the stuff we pulled out today. The warheads aren't dangerous. They are solid, like a solid cannonball. If I forget to add anything, I will add it later. I am going to build an electrolysis machine this weekend, so my finds should clean up a lot better (and it will make the wife happier since I am moving my operation into the garage, rather than the kitchen) Thanks for looking!pict1: all the finds (minus the shrapnel). You can see that tank turret hatch thing on the right hand side. It has holes going around it.
pict2: 2 mine fuses, they have a bakelight shaft, and the tops have the pins in them still. They are kind of rusty
pict3: a close up of the 2 warheads, one smaller sized casing, and the 2 bottoms of casings that rotted away
pict4: close up of the shells themselves. The one on the left weighs 30 lbs!!!
Enjoy
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