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Just had a message, some suspected UXO found in the West Gipsland area. Ken.
Bombs and Bullets UXO
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Christmas holidays are coming up so maybe a good time to bring this topic back to light
7.62marksman said:
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Smell that? You smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didnt find one of em, not one stinkin d%@# body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like Victory. Someday this wars gonna end
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Apocalypse Now, just can't miss watching a movie like that. :Y: :Y: :Y:
Cheers
Doug
While I can understand some areas around Darwin will have uxo, what are the likelihood of finding something in Victoria? I have always assumed mostly you'd find shotgun pellets and casings and a spent bullets and casings for rim-fire or center-fire, but rarely an intact bullets.
Hey Boxtwin2,
Expect to find parts of or complete smalls arms ammunition and even uxo at any past or present military training areas anywhere in Australia. Even areas that were not gazetted as training areas.
Cheers
Doug
Expect to find parts of or complete smalls arms ammunition and even uxo at any past or present military training areas anywhere in Australia. Even areas that were not gazetted as training areas.
Cheers
Doug
As above
Another bump for the new people
Just that something has gone silent for a while so that brings it back up for people to read
pete165 said:
came about thru Facebook I am told.
cheers
Doug
Rockhunter62 said:
Yes , old war sites
a guy I detected with often found a hand grenade on an old WW2 site in Qld
I have also read a thread of a Detectorist whom hunts are mostly WW sites in Qld and there are pictures of Ordnance found
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Some may not believe but I found a live mortar in my back yard in the early 80s as well as over 50 live 50cal rounds...kept them for years..threw the mortar to mates at parties for a joke..then mum found it and called the cops ...who called the army .....they sectioned of the street and said it was live..holly f@#k I said..as they took it away. 
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You are a very lucky man. Phew!!
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Smoky bandit said:Some may not believe but I found a live mortar in my back yard in the early 80s as well as over 50 live 50cal rounds...kept them for years..threw the mortar to mates at parties for a joke..then mum found it and called the cops ...who called the army .....they sectioned of the street and said it was live..holly f@#k I said..as they took it away.
What a good mum :Y: lucky mum had some sense :lol:.
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Yes so true jaro's.. we still talk about it to this day..cant belive that it never went offJaros said:You are a very lucky man. Phew!!
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Yes it would have taken out everyone at the party..And it was thrown around more than once...we laugh about it now though. :Y:
Had a similar thing happen to me in Laos years ago. We were clearing an area of uxo so a Vietnamese crew could blast and crush gravel. Just standing there looking at a couple of detonator leads (unshorted) sticking out of the ground when the Vietnamese crew came over to tell me that the det was safe as it would not fire. One of the workers went to put a normal multimeter onto the leads to show me. :N: I grabbed the multimeter and threw it onto the rocks and broke it. Another of their workers came wandering over with an unexploded bomblet in his hands. 8) Told him to go and place it back on the ground a reasonable distance from me just in case it went off when he put it down.
Closed the site down for the day, had the Vietnamese crew removed from site and organised the company bosses to try and educate the Vietnamese in the safe way of handling and using explosives. I was not liked and was forced to look over my shoulder after that incident.
That was just one story of many in my travels overeseas playing with explosives.
Cheers
Doug
Another of their workers came wandering over with an unexploded bomblet in his hands. 8) Told him to go and place it back on the ground a reasonable distance from me just in case it went off when he put it down.Closed the site down for the day, had the Vietnamese crew removed from site and organised the company bosses to try and educate the Vietnamese in the safe way of handling and using explosives. I was not liked and was forced to look over my shoulder after that incident.
That was just one story of many in my travels overeseas playing with explosives.
Cheers
Doug
