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« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2011, 07:57:11 pm »
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Anytime you go MD you should check the history of the area before you go. I know on Camp LeJuan Nc there are mind fields that were used as training that records of have been lost.

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« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2013, 11:41:46 am »
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My team found a few, but gain, we wore minecleares in Afghanistan and did it for a living.
The correct term is not UXB, but UXO (un-exploded explosive ordinance). That term covers everything that can blow up and ruin your day.

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« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2013, 04:00:06 pm »
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Guys I found some live .303 rounds from the Boer war. I opened one up to see what the condition of the content would be like and it still looked OK in a poor shape but OK. I then set it alight and it went up like the day it was made, only thing that I did not test was the detonation cap but I'm sure that it would have gone off if a pick had hit it.   

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« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2013, 05:37:54 pm »
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I'm sure that it would have gone off if a pick had hit it.

Probably even if a nice guy hit it.

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« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2013, 02:54:44 pm »
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Yep that's true, now when I dig at a Boer war site I do it more in a scraping manner

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« Reply #15 on: February 24, 2013, 08:42:36 pm »
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Xavier, Watch those old .303s coz their primers are heat sensitive and they can go off just by your finger/hand temp

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« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2013, 01:38:51 pm »
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Xavier, Watch those old .303s coz their primers are heat sensitive and they can go off just by your finger/hand temp

You'll have to try harder than that to fool me mate LOL

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« Reply #17 on: February 25, 2013, 01:59:31 pm »
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No its true, primmers back then where not as stable as modern day Primmers,

GD would Know this, so would afew other members

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« Reply #18 on: February 25, 2013, 02:32:31 pm »
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I've had hundreds of .303 dating from the late 1800 to 2013 never have I heard of one going off from a temp change, not even nitro dose that, but I do believe that it could go off from static electricity. When I was younger that I am today (Not that I feel any older that yesterday) I made nitro (Crazy I know) but nitro needs two detonations one being temperature and the other shock and with out these two it will not explode. Do you agree with my statement?  Smiley   

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« Reply #19 on: February 25, 2013, 02:39:09 pm »
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Oh Yes a 100%, I have seen some people set them off but lord knows what they had in mind,

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