Good morning, my interests are only in firearms but I have found many of these pieces of concrete. A friend of mine tell me that they are german concrete mines. Can you confirm?
Good morning, my interests are only in firearms but I have found many of these pieces of concrete. A friend of mine tell me that they are german concrete mines. Can you confirm?
Your friend is correct they are German concrete stock mine worth about 20e each nice find looks like they are still staked as by the Germans who left them there where were they found?
Adam
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We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course, and the end cannot be far.
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I know nothing of these mines. But as part of my trade i can tell you concrete will do severe damage if it explodes. Stewy S
Sorry,what i meant was i can understand why concrete casings were used. It can be as bad as metal shrapnell. Stewy S
The stockmine although primarily made from concrete was impregnated with bits of metal ,it used a 100gm charge which was ignited by a zz35 or zz42 igniter and usually set off with a trip wire.Other igniters and modes of detonation can be found with these but the previous is the most commonly found set up.
Thanks for pic Spotter. From what i know about concrete & it's different compositions,it would be like standing in a hail of glass & metal. Nice. Stewy S
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