WWII relic hunting

[ray1970]

This would be a cool weekend hobby. Too bad you couldn't do it here in the US. Well, maybe if you wanted to find civil war relics.


http://youtu.be/RmatcJTCSB0

[SideShow Bob]

You could go up to the Auetian islands.......... Specifically Attu and Kiska.

[Robb]

Someone in Poland has a Facebook page, I can't read it but I look at it from time to time. He's digging up all kinds of stuff from the Kirkland area I believe. It's fascinating in that some of the stuff dug up is still in amazing condition.

[ray1970]

You could go up to the Auetian islands.......... Specifically Attu and Kiska.

I don't think I have a heavy enough coat. Brrr.

[StagLefty]

That would be a great hobby !!! I picked this scope up a few years ago at a garage sale. Paid $20 and found out because it had the rubber eye lens and lever mount it was worth about $2,000 for a collector : 62593

[ray1970]

When I was right out of high school, we would go down to the beach from time to time with a metal detector and find all kinds of jewelry buried in the sand. Right after spring break was a great time to go look. It was a cool way to make some money for beer or ammo but we never really found anything old or rare or cool.

[BushMasterBoy]

Springfield bullet found in Pueblo with a metal detector.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Model_1892%E2%80%9399




62594

[Gman]

Oh, look. A land mine. [panic]

[ray1970]

Oh, look. A land mine. [panic]
Lol. Or a piece if undetonated ordnance.

[zteknik]

I remeber when I was a kid in the late 70's when I viseted realatives in Klodzko Poland there was a military concern just outside of town. Me and my cousins would find all kinds of stuff throughout the farmland feilds. Theres still an anti aircraft gun sitting in my uncles feild- never did get the whole story on it but man would I like to know.
Wonder if you can still find ammo for it? [Coffee]

[ruthabagah]

I used to dig for all sort of memorabilia when i was in europe. I found tons of stuff.... ppsh, stg 44, dozens of mauser, most where badly corroded but some where in exeptional condition after spending several decade underground. Once my father did dig out the wing of a p51. We knew the pilote had jumped, so we had no concern about legality. Since it crashed vertically, there was not much left lof the wing, but the 4 , 30 did survive.... well, correction only one survived and was given to a local museum.... ��

[rondog]

Man, I'd kill for the chance to go treasure hunting like that!

[Irving]

Found something in the dirt today at my house. I looked it up and it turns out it is a Howitzer. The back story is that I dug up all the juniper bushes in my front yard, and the one closest to the garage had all kinds of random trash in it (as juniper bushes do). I keep finding stuff in the dirt every month or so. First it was a crescent wrench rusted all to hell, today it was this little guy. Probably been buried here for the last 40-50 years. Not quite a WWII relic, but didn't think it merited its very own thread.

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Found one on ebay for $12.99 in slightly better shape. The wheels still turn on the one I found. http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/262156166564?ul_noapp=true&chn=ps&lpid=82

[Big E3]

Wow, I wish I could find some cool old toys in my yard.

I for one am glad we can't just go out with metal detectors and find old war relics. The only people that can do that fought wars in there own backyards. I'm happy that never happen here outside the civil war in the south.

[driver]

Irving your post made me think of Boo Radley.

[Irving]

Well I didn't find it in the knot of an old oak tree...

[SAnd]

Wow, I wish I could find some cool old toys in my yard.

I for one am glad we can't just go out with metal detectors and find old war relics. The only people that can do that fought wars in there own backyards. I'm happy that never happen here outside the civil war in the south.
I don't know about that. There has been problems of people in developments on the east side of Aurora finding ordnance in their yards.

[Big E3]

^^^Your right, when I was a kid we used to hunt out near the dump on Gun Club. One time I found what appeared to be an unexploded bomb half buried in the sand. You don't need metal detectors to find them either. All part of the old Lowry bombing range.

[ruthabagah]

I don't know about that. There has been problems of people in developments on the east side of Aurora finding ordnance in their yards.

Yep. That and giant, abandoned, underground missile silo dot the landscape around e470... I think one of them is now buried under a new housing development.... Surprise, surprise, when the homeowner will start sampling the air in their basements....

[Danimal]

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[airborneranger]

When I was stationed in Germany, I had a couple of friends who would do this type of thing. For some reason, I remember it being illegal. My one buddy found a US pineapple grenade on the beaches of Normandy. The other guy didn't find as cool of item but he did find some rusted rifle magazines and commo wire.

The cool thing is that in many of these small towns, the foxholes are still there. For example, the fighting positions around Bastogne are still recognizable. Many of the foxholes are present as well.

The uncool thing is all of the dud ammo that finds its way to the surface each year. There was an article years ago about the WWI dud artillery shells that come to the surface from repeated tilling of the fields. Most of the farmers simply move them to the road and call the local PD who come out and recovery them.

I have an unfired rifle cartridge that I found at Verdun. Nothing spectacular but cool.

[Gunner]

Someone in Poland has a Facebook page, I can't read it but I look at it from time to time. He's digging up all kinds of stuff from the Kirkland area I believe. It's fascinating in that some of the stuff dug up is still in amazing condition.
There is a page on Facebook called "Ghosts of the eastern front" pretty cool stuff they find

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[Irving]

This video came up on my feed after watching the other one posted in this thread. This video actually made me feel jealous!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3VmNEM8jdA

Anyone know what the large chunks of coal looking stuff are?

EDIT: After cracking open the first container and seeing one or two intact items, those containers would be in the car and on the way home.

[ray1970]

I wonder why they were drilling a hole in the barrel on the revolver?

[Irving]

To destroy it. What a shame.

[BushMasterBoy]

Lumps of coal for a warm cup of coffee, Latvia can be very cold!

[Gunner]

I wonder why they were drilling a hole in the barrel on the revolver?
Right what a shame. That's a piece of true history that would still function.

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[OctopusHighball]

I wonder why they were drilling a hole in the barrel on the revolver?

Because they don't have a 2nd amendment in Latvia?

[ruthabagah]

To destroy it. What a shame.

Yep that's why you don't want to go on youtube when you find one of these.....