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Gone fishing
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Bellifortis
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There are many ponds and lakes in germany and Austria in which the allies dumped hundreds of thousands of tons of ammunition of all kinds, after the end of WW2. Around 1968 a new reservoir for drinking water was being built nearby. Just above this new reservoir there was situated a pond for the firebrigade. This was emptied for the new reservoir construction. In 1945 a few truckloads of small arms ammunition had been dumped there. When we kids heard about this, we drove there on our bicycles armed with some small shovels ans forks. From .22lfB till around 8mm rifle rounds, we found many different cartridges, some even in their clips. After an accident that had nothing to do with this collecting, my parents threw everithing away that was in anyway related to my explosive interests. Now this is more than 50 years ago. Those rounds that had been lieing in the heavy mud, where nearly no oxygen can get at, were at the time in a very nice, collectible shape. Others, were already at that time (23 years after the end of WW2) in a strongly oxidised useless state. By now nearly all those rounds will have been destroyed by nature.
Bellifortis.
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