Meine douce NORMANDIE. This position is only a few KM from the village where I lived. I'm sorry, but I don't give any info on the places I hunt. To manny times getting F***** by other hunters(mainly french guy's) This is a mortar position that I'm still diggin on. I've recoverd so far: -A load of 3" and 4.2" mortar tails (they just lay on the surface) -60+ 7.92mm in one foxhole (also a surface find)They were fired from a MG. +-10 clips for lee enfield Ammo still on them. -1 Millsbomb No36. -20 mortar detonator protection caps 3" or 4.2" I'm still uploading pictures to photobucket so it might take a while before I have them all in this thread. Grtz and hope you will enjoy.
Thanks for the pictures. It is always interesting to see the terrain. I understand your desire to not tell the area, I do the same thing when it pertains to my Morel mushroom hunting spots.
Yes - many thanks for posting these. They give a very good idea of how WWII battlefield traces look today.
That looks like a nice spot for hunting, although i'd be very careful when digging as you may come across something that may still go BOOM! Is that a Mills grenade you are holding in one of the photos?
Very nice indeed, wish I had the time to set up shop in Europe and just go 'hunting' for these sites.
Yes it is a mills bomb(got a better picture of it somewhere), thats the problem since I've been digging, I recoverd more Ammo than good relics.(You get used to it, but it keeps on reminding me that this still is a dangerous hobby) This site was heavely fought for by Brittish and German forces and changed hands many times during the Normandie battle. I found german and brittish ammo spread out over the site.
I'm going back there begin March, I will make some other pictures of the whole position. I'll post them ASAP. Thank you all for the kind words. Grtz
Funny thought that the old Mills were still used in 1944 , considering the 1942 Dieppe veterans hated it and desperatley demanded new models
I think it's a bit the same story in every army, the stock's had to be used up. If I remember correctly they where abandoned, shortly after the end of WW2?
It's always at the forefront of my mind when i'm digging just what may lay below the surface...a mine?...an unexploded shell or indeed a grenade? Relic hunting maybe a dangerous hobby, but it's also a very addictive one.
Thanks spotter, I stand corrected, I know we recoverd some of them on 1WW battlefields, it surprises me that they didn't change or at least improved them over it's apparently long life span.
In the 80's as kid's we used to play in the fields, behind my stepmom's farmhouse(Normandie). It was a real walhalla, but a childhood friend of mine got killed by a grenade that he found there. 3 Years ago a relic-hunter blew himself up in the ardennes. That's why I don't mess around with explosives, it's also the reason that relichunting in state forests is forbidden in the ardennes since 2 years. If you get caught, the consequenses are severe,heavy fines, confiscation of your car, MD,all of your finds(for Belgian relic hunters the police can come to your house and confiscate every relic you have) even prison. Even after 66years ammunition is still as deadly as the day they were produced. My moto is: A relic ain't worth dying or go to prison for, take a picture as souvenir and let EOD do the rest. But you always have cowboy's who will attempt to do otherwise.
