My front yard....

**NJSouth** · 09-19-2014, 02:37 PM

Got another 2lbs of junk out of my front yard today. I did find half a dozen brass screws which was kind of nice. Pennies into dimes, dimes into dollars.

**DakotaRog** · 09-19-2014, 03:01 PM

I'd like to try sometime. Maybe in the next phase of my life. There's at least one forum for metal detecting, watched some vids on there. Can be some wild stuff. Metal using people have been in s. Jersey a lot longer than around here. Enjoy your digs!

Rounde...I suspect that you can find a lot of spent war metal in your area. Just be careful not to set off some unexploded ordinance. The only thing like that we have in the US is Civil War stuff and many of those sites are off limits to detecting. Your situation should make Americans stop, think, and be very thankful that we've never been occupied (at least not yet) by an foreign aggressor...

P.S. Because you brought up the military metal stuff, I'll tell a little story from the Iraq War. A guy I work with was with a Nat'l Guard unit over there in late 2003/2004. They were located in south Iraq so not a lot of bad guys except "Mad Max" type road bandits. Their main jobs were 1) protect supply convoys heading north from Kuwait, and 2) guard several of Saddam's ammo dumps.

Saddam never had his people stop buying mutations so when we overthrew his gov, there was bang-bang stuff almost everywhere. So, the ammo dumps that these SD Guard guys got to watch had been overrun initially by looters and such during the first month or so of the war before the Americans could take control of them. The people in the south, mostly poor Shiites that Saddam's boys regularly brutalized, had a field day with little supervisor and they started stripping out about anything that could be torn apart.

This one ammo dump had many bunkers of mortar shells and either all of them or a specific size had a copper ring around the middle of the warhead. Anyway, these "scrapping" Iraqis would bang these things around trying to pry that copper ring off of the shell. Usually they succeeded but a few times things went badly and they ended up being splated around the inside of the bunkers. That was some of the first duty of these Guard guys did when they took over these bunkers, getting the place cleared of its grisly relics...

**Roudeleiw** · 09-20-2014, 02:22 AM

Originally Posted by DakotaRog

I'd like to try sometime. Maybe in the next phase of my life. There's at least one forum for metal detecting, watched some vids on there. Can be some wild stuff. Metal using people have been in s. Jersey a lot longer than around here. Enjoy your digs!

Rounde...I suspect that you can find a lot of spent war metal in your area. Just be careful not to set off some unexploded ordinance. The only thing like that we have in the US is Civil War stuff and many of those sites are off limits to detecting. Your situation should make Americans stop, think, and be very thankful that we've never been occupied (at least not yet) by an foreign aggressor...

P.S. Because you brought up the military metal stuff, I'll tell a little story from the Iraq War. A guy I work with was with a Nat'l Guard unit over there in late 2003/2004. They were located in south Iraq so not a lot of bad guys except "Mad Max" type road bandits. Their main jobs were 1) protect supply convoys heading north from Kuwait, and 2) guard several of Saddam's ammo dumps.

Saddam never had his people stop buying mutations so when we overthrew his gov, there was bang-bang stuff almost everywhere. So, the ammo dumps that these SD Guard guys got to watch had been overrun initially by looters and such during the first month or so of the war before the Americans could take control of them. The people in the south, mostly poor Shiites that Saddam's boys regularly brutalized, had a field day with little supervisor and they started stripping out about anything that could be torn apart.

This one ammo dump had many bunkers of mortar shells and either all of them or a specific size had a copper ring around the middle of the warhead. Anyway, these "scrapping" Iraqis would bang these things around trying to pry that copper ring off of the shell. Usually they succeeded but a few times things went badly and they ended up being splated around the inside of the bunkers. That was some of the first duty of these Guard guys did when they took over these bunkers, getting the place cleared of its grisly relics...

We had the same situation here in Europe after the I. and II. World War, the germans and the us army left a lot of ammo dumps behind and they were looted by poor guys, wanting to get money to eat.
A lot of them died because they even dug up landmine-fields , because the german ones were filled with a lot of lead, and lead was very rare in these days.