mate great finds, we are scratching around Sth Est Qland at the moment and loving it, although snake season is apon us and contractors are closing in fast. such a great state to dig in
mate great finds, we are scratching around Sth Est Qland at the moment and loving it, although snake season is apon us and contractors are closing in fast. such a great state to dig in
I also stripped the Mystery projectile ~ which I found last month~
It now has a "hollow" brass casing with an end cap~ and a steel over case ~ plus frags of bright Green paint ~
We have decided that this lil' fella is not to be toyed with ~
Mate ~ Funny you should say that ~ as I am almost paranoid after the conversation with the Cockies wife, Sarah and the Tiapan encounter ~ and then she and Terry talk about chest high attacks.. But then some resolve as Terry's Wife, Kay was a tad cynical abut the odds of a chest high Snake attack ~although snake season is apon us and contractors are closing in fast. such a great state to dig in
But then as a Kid I recall a huge Brown coiled up abut one metre ~ about to hit my Mum ~ until she whacked it with an aluminium boiler pot ~ Thank Goodness as we as Kids would have had NO idea what to do and we had No phone on the farm then !!
Ironic that I have yet to even see a snake on my Hunts ~ and we are tad sceptical at all about snake Hibernation here ~
Are you 'doing' the Camp Cable site ?
My current full combat gear !
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Hey any chance of a few pics of the mystery bullet?
hard to ID in its current condition..nothing springs to mind looking at its shape and size compared to a 50 BMG...curious
May be a .55 cal Boys rifle projectile. The rust would make it appear a larger dia. due to flaking of the oxide. The amount of rust also supports this IMO as the .55 boys round was steel jacketed (AT) .
All the best
Dave
As for the WWII Military steel chest one metre down ~ I found it on the 16th August ~
But as it was very late in the day I could not see the bottom of the hole to consider digging it up then ~ so I reburied it and would come back ~ but then I got crook and time slid past ~
Then because I did not mark the spot ~ Drongo ! ~ I figured it was no big deal in locating the spot ~ but no guess what ~ Yesterday I could not find it ~
But in my slumber the now obvious solution is upon me ~
I will go back armed with a length of rod ~ the only one I can think of is a length of aluminium rod ~ a I have lurking it the garden shed ~
So I return and then use the rod as a ‘depth sounder “ which would penetrate the soil easily and even hit the top of the box ~
Firstly the soil is soft having being dug previously and the hole is up to a metre deep and finally as stated the rod will hit and ID the metal box ! And I do not have to dig a single spade full until then~
I did not expect to lose the thing and should have simply placed a stone or a tick in the ground to mark the spot ~ I did not have my GPS on me which could have identified or tagged !
But in my search yesterday it turned into quite good day ~
Landed on the site and started digging where I knew the chest was ~ I dug a hole large enough to deal with a medium size military chest ~
But then I hit a layer of clay ~ and all was in perfect layer as in never dug ! ??
Plus the dug ground was not deep enough to suggest being previously dug to any depth ? !
So I expanded the ground and retrieved the metal detector ~ LOTS of signals and started to dig good targets ~ But no chest ~!
Time wore on and I refilled each area once I was satisfied the area was clear of any targets ~ Very confusing now !
I spent some threw hours digging but this included cautiously digging holes which turned out intact glass bottles which turned out to be some rippers !
No chest !! (??)
I dug an area < 5m * 2m >1m > ?? HEAPS of mixed signals ~ even tried assessing with depth gauge on ATP ~
Some same webbing buckles
I can dig buckles ALL day and be happy !
Suddenly I put a test hole in the middle of a bottle dump~
A collectors bonus ~
This bewty has ~ on bottom ~ R d N O 9710
L-R Bottle with four finger dimples on either side ~ Johnson and Johnson
Centre bottle has on base ; 466
Top right ; arched embossing ; CHESEBROUGH (then flat embossed ) MANFG.CO.CD. (Then opposite arch) NEW YORK
Left “ink Bottle “ no embossing
Both black caps extremely fragile ~
And to finish ~ last but not least ~
Of course if you can’t find the mystery chest ~
What better score ~ (??) Than~
Hmm HAS to be thirty now !!
WITH pins on the back ~ but both pins are different to teh convential split pin mounts ~
THE FREAK strikes again~
No idea
Fossick #142 Day 2 ~ The Great Chest Quest
Okay
Headed off around 12.00 ~ On site 12.30.
Perfect day ~ light cloud ~ light southerly breeze ~
Came prepared with soil penetrating probes ~ as I decided to deep probe the site ~
( Already give myself serious upper cuts ! If I had marked the spot with a stone or a stake ~ None of this would have taken place ~ &&^*&^ Drongo!)
First I tried a solid wire ~ too light and no use ~ I ended up using a 1 1/2 M length of dowel to probe the ground ~ ( Really need a T piece for this though! )
(May add a 1*metre steel T piece 1/4” rod to my MD kit for future usage especially for bottles ~ )
A; looking for soft patches to a depth of 1m ~
B; search for solid object at approx one metre ~
C; search for a larger area ~ size of a steel chest ~ consistent signal ~
Even dug a number of test foxholes ~
No joy !
But still more relics and more bottles ~
So again not a lost day but certainly looks like a lost cause ~
Spoke at length with Terry and agrees what we should do is wait till we have a team day and if that day is in the area we will take the heavy artillery with Ed’ and Terry’s Minelab, E track,CTX 3030 and see what they can “see’”!
A great couple of days with the Rising Sun and the misc plus a fantastic array of period glassware ~
Take Homes
Two small medicine bottles
A Lee Enfield Bayonet grip securing bolt
A webbing buckle
A Button
A boot stop
Half a 'battle damaged' 'Australia' shoulder badge
Trash including a hole filled with steel boot heel irons ; U and misc not included
Dave
I tend to agree as I also recently found a .55 case which had been cut down and still the primer was intact ~ Plus Ed found several Boys magazine inner guide strips ~ and then was a Anti tank unit supposedly camped nearby ~
That site we have not even tried to find yet as it is in dense rain forest ~ especially this time of year one does not really need to be trudging through thick forest as the snakes get over their hibernation and their annual testosterone rush ~
So I decided to do another run to locate the mystery chest ~
I dug a single slit trench about 1/5 metres long where I figured it was ~ about 25 cm deep and the spade blade wide ~ but again I hit that clay pan ~ and it was unbroken~
But in an area which I have revisited many times and essentially hammered when I needed a quick fix in < 40 mins> I came up with the following which IMO was very impressive ~
A 1932 3d KG V
A AMF Button
Plus the other misc items ~
I am seriously questioning my technique with the Pro ~ I keep finding stuff in the same area tells my technique ***** ~ LOL
We also planned a Weds hunt with the three of us as can be seen below ~
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