Dangers of Hunting for Coins

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...teen-explodes-riddles-50-pieces-shrapnel.html

But he is certainly dedicated with his hobby:

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Paddy's gonna wanta see this! I'm wondering what the Coney Island hazards are?

 

Wow. I never thought of the dangers the folks over there have to deal with. There are dangers in my area but nothing like that.

 

Nuts a find of a lifetime for sure.

 

Anywhere America fights wars, we leave enormous amounts of dangerous munitions behind.
In many countries, poor street children search for brass and copper to sell, and lose a limb or their life in the process.
America is not the only one. Every country ever involved in a battle has left dangerous things behind.

 

geez.

 

My dad detected and dug a cannon ball at Spanish Fort, Alabama. The lead fuse timer was still intact. This was in the 1970's. He also found a Schenkl shell at Port Hudson, Louisiana. He lived until 2013 with nary an explosion.

 

I live and fish by the lake where the Doolittle Raiders trained. It is quite common for fishermen to raise their boat anchors and drag up training bombs from the depths. Fortunately they are trainers and not live ordinance.

 

Wow. That’s a scary find. I know there’s lots of that stuff all over Europe from both wars. He’s dedicated and lucky to be alive

 

Yep, that stuff could mess-up your health record!

 

In 2008 a Virginia man dug up a Civil War cannonball which exploded and killed him.

https://www.foxnews.com/story/virginia-man-killed-in-civil-war-cannonball-blast

But in February, White's hobby cost him his life: A cannonball he was restoring exploded, killing him in his driveway.

More than 140 years after Lee surrendered to Grant, the cannonball was still powerful enough to send a chunk of shrapnel through the front porch of a house a quarter-mile from White's home in this leafy Richmond suburb.

Experts suspect White was killed while trying to disarm a 9-inch, 75-pound naval cannonball, a particularly potent explosive with a more complex fuse and many times the destructive power of those used by infantry artillery.

 

Living in the area that Patton trained his tank and desert forces in WW2, every year there are reports of people evading the patrols as well as the air bombings ( as is still an active use) to pick the fields for copper ( we all know how valuable it is ), They come into the surrounding hospitals with missing parts and many are too damaged to survive. A suspicious jeep was stopped 10 miles from here a few years ago and inspected and 400 lbs of corroded unexploded munitions were removed by military teams.

 

@paddyman98 ...getting distracted by a Nathans hot dog!!!...Spark

 

My danger are Zombies! That's what I call people who hang around me to start looking to see what I will find and ask about a dozen questions before they finally walk away!

Crazy bomb stories. I actually do worry about stuff like this happening to me. I have found old bullets casings.. huge ones!

 

When I was a very small child, my brother had a heavy, rusty metal thing that sat on his dresser. He always told me it was a Civil War shell from the field behind our house. (This was in Williamsport, MD, maybe 10 miles from Antietam Battlefield, so it's totally believable that artifacts would get tilled up as they prepared the field for feed corn.)

A bit of Googling makes me think it might have been a Schenkl shell:



It never did blow up, fortunately. The explosions had to wait until I started adding to my chemistry set.

 

Hobby of metal detecting for me just turned 43 “Swings”, opps I mean years under my belt.
These days I rather enjoy the sometimes “crowds” of watchers, or as some would say, “Zombies” that are extremely curious as to what it is I’m doing, what I’m finding or have discovered, some ask what it is I’ve lost, lol
It’s not only the dozen of questions that get asked, but the same questions many many times. I happily take the time to attempt answering any and all questions. I especially get a kick out of the youngsters with their questions and the all about number #1 request.
“Hey Mister”, can I try that thing once please?
Again I’m only to happy to let those, young or elderly, try their hand at swinging, answering questions best I can and always appearing to have made new and interesting friends.
Doing so certainly can’t hurt to keep our hobby living on!!!
As the saying goes, it all starts with “Us”

 

Grew up on Kanehoe Bay in Hawaii in late 80s my dad was a ordinance expert. We use to hunt for 1940 coke bottles & metal detect all around the base. I remember he called to have few potential bombs/shells etc removed more than once.

 

I was in Eastern Croatia where there were bomb warning signs around the sunflower field. I don’t think metal detecting would be a good idea there.

 

When I worked doing software for b&bs there was one in the southern US where they found a civil war cannonball wedged in the chimney from the nearby battle. Not sure if was still active of not.