Oh Great Sean ~ Another watch item ~ ..
I have some three items pending on my Sniper Ebay software and two more in the snail mail plus two already arrived this week ~
Phew ~ I am going to have to do some fast talking here ~~
Thanks !!
Oh Great Sean ~ Another watch item ~ ..
I have some three items pending on my Sniper Ebay software and two more in the snail mail plus two already arrived this week ~
Phew ~ I am going to have to do some fast talking here ~~
Thanks !!
Well Our Wet season is building now ~
Every day there is storm activity across the area ~ it is hit and miss though as to whether one gets rained on hammered by lightning ~
I headed out to do a solo Hunt on an old site which I have worked extremely hard But as the dam, is dropping as it does leading into 2015 I figured was worth a few hours ~
Sure enough despite a lot of detritus and rotten 303 shells a few goodies appeared ~
A Water baby ~ hiding below the surface among the stones ~ Blink and you miss it !
A mystery item .. not the drum bung! ~ looks like a bearing cover to me ~ ANY IDEAS !?? HAd a line of thought but no back up on the theory !
Eventually I was forced back to the car by a downpour !
The couple of hours reward ~
The 2 lber safety triangle is intact I will straighten and fit to the 2 lber shell I am "restoring" ~
The small rod looks like a firing pin rod (?) and the point matches a 303 shell case primer impact perfectly ~ (??)
Attachment 776659
Is this the Bearing cap ?
In fact this area was occupied by extensive numbers of Grant M3 tanks from 1942 on !
AWM Description
WATSONVILLE AREA, QLD. 1944-04-28. TROOPS OF THE 2/6TH INFANTRY BATTALION MOVING FORWARD BEHIND GENERAL GRANT M3 MEDIUM TANKS OF THE 2/9TH ARMOURED SQUADRON FOR AN ASSAULT ON CHURCH KNOLL AND CATHEDRAL KNOLL DURING A TRAINING EXERCISE. ONE OF THE GENERAL GRANT TANKS DURING THE OUTFLANKING MOVE TOWARDS JAP HILL.
AWM: ATHERTON TABLELAND, QLD. 1943 07 02. TANKS MOVING IN TO SUPPORT THE 2 13TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION, DURING A DEMONSTRATION OF TANK AND INFANTRY ATTACK METHODS.
Last edited by AT P Sweep; 12-13-2014 at 03:58 AM.
Well Seems my friend in Holland nailed the pin !
Found one!
This is what your striker is off.
Apparently its some kind off booby trap detonator.
Found a site with a little info.
Scroll down at this place:
Explosives and Booby Traps of the Auxiliary Units
Grtz
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Ironically or co-incidently I found that other Booby trap trigger some 15 metres from this one ~
And if you go to "Switches" both of them are opposite each other on the right hand side of the picture ~
Among a Host of small purchases in the last week Ihave pciked up a Victorian Mounted Rifles badge ~
I scored this out of Militaria business in the UK ~ reasonable price ~ probablyu one of the more expensive badges I have bought ~ but still a nice score IMO !
This unit served most notably in the Boer War/s.
Victorian Mounted Rifles
Well~ Wednesday hunt yet again ~
One of my earliest up and at it, yet~ Up at 04.00 after a midnight finish at the Office and bed at 00.30!
Ed and I on site around at 07.45!
Still and warm already ~ Ed and I as always split in different directions ~ I was struggling with nothing outstanding ~ Terry arrived on site around 08.30 after driving from Cairns ~
He had stopped and did a small local hunt prior to joining us ~ And the bugger found "My Holiest of Holies " ~ A Unit cap badge!
A Royal Pioneer Corp badge !
Pioneer (military) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Australian units listed mid page.)
Mean while Ed had picked up a quite a few coins including a US coin ~I scored a .30 cal US shell case even more evidence of US presence in the camp site ~
Ed dug a nice AUST Army D/\D MUG~
Meanwhile Stuart is Struggling !
By midday the heat was on, the rise and Stuart was definitely on an off day !
Ed and Terry were doing quite well ~
We moved camp to site number one not far away ~
Terry was struggling ~ as I was ~ Ed headed off to the Wet canteen site for another base !
Ed was the big winner ~ ( I missed snapping his total for the day but he ended up with eighteen coins and a bewt hat Rising Sun ~
Terry scored several Trench art pieces ~ Nice !
Around 13.00 we headed back but Terry and I decided to spend some more time at his first "stop off" site of the APC badge as Ed had to go rescue a mate who had just bought a new boat ~
Terry fell short but the Australia badge and the AMF buttons saved my day ~ Plus a several nice period bottle/ jars added some dignity! `
I have posted this same post on Steve T's great post on Identifying shell cases ~
Hey Blokes
I dug these two mystery shell cases in our known military WWII area today ~
No idea
Third rimmed cartridge is a LE 303
Measurements are ~ at base < 11.80 mm> ~ projectile mounts damaged / out of round ~ < 7.00 - 7.09 mm>
Wondering if they military Blanks (??)
First thought was that they are US Army as I also dug US Army webbing buckle today ~ also a rarity in our area ~
They are 30-06 shell casings made in Lake City USA in 1969, hope that helps.
Cheers TM ~
I did wonder if they were more recent ~ but 1969 ~
I have found more recent shells and been told there were pre Vietnam war exercises conducted in this area ~
I did wonder if it was time framed back to the 1903 Springfield ~ after all in 1942 the best equipment as we know was sent to the North African front ~ (Right? )
And this area was deemed the most obvious that the Japanese would invade first and foremost ~ And the Australian military and MacArthur agreed this area was most appropriate for training and a natural spring board for dealing with the threat ~ and beyond ~
Cheers
Mate ~
Thanks for your input ~ Always appreciated ~
Headed out around 11.30 on Saturday ~ heavy over cast southerly breeze.
Fire up north~ Still bloody dry as ~
On site around midday ~
This is old ground which I have frequented regularly for the past two years and it rarely fails to deliver some goodies ~
Still no rain and dry as a cracker ~ the ground hard as ~
After several hours hunting at the half way mark ~
The oval piece is a manufacturer's identity plate ~ a tractor of machinery ?? (If it cleans up well okay ~ if not in the bin~ )
Plus an Aust badge and a rather sad Jack Knife ~ (The jack knife I now have in the electrolysis vat ~
I then went water wading ~ trying out the new waders for the first ~ a lot of targets and no shortage of 303 blanks ~ but had to chase around the bottom to catch a 1943 KG VI !
But they were great and I will be using them a lot more ~
Only spent an hour before heading back to home base ~
The final total
The brass 12 gauge base is stamped 12 ELEY KNOCH with ICI logo.
‘I found the knife in a military WWII dump ~ along with with the webbing buckles, the 1922 KG V and the KG VI 1943 Pennies and the Aust badge ~
( I actually found a fire site nearby (Approx a kilometre away), some time ago and among the buckles and remnants I found a lot of the cable U hooks ! So it would seem the Aust forces did sport Jack Knives ~ )
typical jack knife in WWII Commonwealth forces ~
Last edited by AT P Sweep; 12-30-2014 at 01:53 PM.
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