A lovely day cartridge hunting.

[jamie18thmo]

Blimey RRPG and Magnut! You'd love a day out at work with me! I work on a huge chunk of Norfolk that has been a training area since WW2. You'd be stopping every 10 seconds to pick something up. I do!
I'll post some pictures of the sort of things I find.

[RRPG]

I'll take that as an official invite. Let me know when and where

[jamie18thmo]

I'll take that as an official invite. Let me know when and where

Haha! Yes, it might be possible some time.

[MilitaryMetalMagnut]

Golden rule I always follow, (one of three :p ), is NEVER leave a relic behind!

I suppose I get a little bit biased when it comes to the modern relics. The modern stuff I keep the best/better condition things. If those links were .303, I most certainly would have picked them up, regardless of condition!

Blimey RRPG and Magnut! You'd love a day out at work with me! I work on a huge chunk of Norfolk that has been a training area since WW2. You'd be stopping every 10 seconds to pick something up. I do!
I'll post some pictures of the sort of things I find.

Cool, matey! I'd be interested in seeing what you've found

Regards,

Simon

[Resurgam]

Golden rule I always follow, (one of three :p ), is NEVER leave a relic behind!

That's nice of you Steve; at seventy years of age, I find that very reasuring!

[alloverover]

Blimey RRPG and Magnut! You'd love a day out at work with me! I work on a huge chunk of Norfolk that has been a training area since WW2. You'd be stopping every 10 seconds to pick something up. I do!
I'll post some pictures of the sort of things I find.

I know the place well jamie, it was one of my favorite places since I was 13 or 14, its a beautiful unspoiled place, a wonderful place to work I should think

[jamie18thmo]

Blimey RRPG and Magnut! You'd love a day out at work with me! I work on a huge chunk of Norfolk that has been a training area since WW2. You'd be stopping every 10 seconds to pick something up. I do!
I'll post some pictures of the sort of things I find.

I know the place well jamie, it was one of my favorite places since I was 13 or 14, its a beautiful unspoiled place, a wonderful place to work I should think

Yes, it certainly is a special place. Amazing wildlife, scenery and interesting things. I'm very lucky to be able to spend my days there.

[jamie18thmo]

Here's the sort of stuff I see quite regularly. Please note ALL THESE THINGS ARE SAFE AND INERT!
The picture of the mixed rounds are a .338 Lapuamag blank from a sniper rifle, a couple of AK47 blanks and a 5.56mm simunition round (the military's version of paintball). The other pics are of some 40mm grenade machine gun linked cases and a belt of 55 .50 cal blank rounds.

[MilitaryMetalMagnut]

Here's the sort of stuff I see quite regularly. Please note ALL THESE THINGS ARE SAFE AND INERT!
The picture of the mixed rounds are a .338 Lapuamag blank from a sniper rifle, a couple of AK47 blanks and a 5.56mm simunition round (the military's version of paintball). The other pics are of some 40mm grenade machine gun linked cases and a belt of 55 .50 cal blank rounds.

Wow! What a collection! Thanks for showing. Love those 40 mills, I'd get on the internet to find some inert projectiles to put in them! Would look awesome on the wall It would be cool to visit that site!
I don't find things quite like this, the biggest cartridge I've found is a 1.5 inch blank 'Baton round' from a riot gun. It's a fired cartridge. & a 9mm simulation round, with the 'paint ball' projectile.



I also made a thread with the stuff I usually find. http://www.metaldetectingforum.co.uk/vi ... 61&t=76390" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Regards

Simon

[jamie18thmo]

Had a look at your other thread Simon. Some good stuff. Shame you're not a bit nearer this neck of the woods.

[MilitaryMetalMagnut]

Had a good hunt again today. Good for me, anyway (This thread's getting bigger!)

Found a lovely Royal Navy Clasp Knife, made by Joseph Rodgers of Sheffield. I've pictured It in it's natural 'As found' state & have spent all evening cleaning it & getting the parts moving. It doesn't look it in the pics, but the metal is Stainless. I'm well chuffed with that!
Will put some pics of it cleaned up tomorrow.






On Thursday I was hunting around & I heard the soldiers doing some shooting in the distance, so today I went to where I thought they were. I found a nice pile of fired 7.62mm blanks & machine gun links, all dated 2013. They've only been there for 2 days, can't get much more recent than that! Apologies for the naff picture as I only had my camera phone.





Regards,

Simon

[jamie18thmo]

Great find there with the knife Simon. I used to have lots of different variations of the WW2 British Army pocket knives, but the only one I have now is my uncle's Royal Navy one.

[MilitaryMetalMagnut]

Great find there with the knife Simon. I used to have lots of different variations of the WW2 British Army pocket knives, but the only one I have now is my uncle's Royal Navy one.

Thanks matey It's neat to have different variations of the same thing. I have my dads Household Cavalry pocket knife somewhere.. Always better to have one that was in the family

Here it is all squeaky clean & with the 7.62's, all belted up







Regards,

Simon

[jamie18thmo]

Good job with the clean up matey!

[MilitaryMetalMagnut]

Cheers, Jamie It loosened up very well! It now folds with just a finger & thumb, fantastic.

Had another fine week of hunting
Went to an area that had been cleared of gauze, didn't notice it before, so I had a look. Glad I did!

Mills 36, HE & Smoker 2 inch mortar bomb bits everywhere! (All of the grenade & bomb bits were found on one day!) + a fired PIAT launching cartridge I found at a WW2 bomb shelter (The target, maybe?). I saw a trench which I think was the WW2 grenade trench, as all of the Mills bits were a few yards from it.
Quite pleased with that little lot.



Doesn't look it, but it's a fairly deep trench with some Corrugated iron still in it.

Other things I've found was a brass WW2 cleaning rod for the Webley revolver, made by Parker Hale (Don't think RRPG has one of these?.. lol). I knew there was a pistol range at the camp, but I've never found any evidence that they were using them there. Certainly my best find of the week!

I've found the second most oldest .303 cartridge, which dates to about 1907. The oldest cartridge I've ever found dates to about 1895 - 1900



And a find which I really 'lit up' over! A brand new Petzl E-lite compact head torch, coool




Need another box for this lot now! lol

Regards,

Simon