WW I ammunition in a forrest by Verdun

[mistermodified1]

They shot a lot of stuff back and forth back then

[HubertWolfen]

when I was 10 years old, I found one of these in the feilds near village (witch was a battlefeild during ww1) and brought it home. it was bigger than this one. I remember the gendarmes and the bombsquad coming to my house.... the thing could have blown the whole street to pieces....never pick these up....NEVER

[dasupasin]

I had picked one up and brought it home with me, it's on the shelf above my bed now

[TheInfotwins]

looks like solid shots to me then again i have no idea what im talkin about

[gamerboss007]

is it still live?

[Nameless666Maggot]

@gamerboss007 Yup most likely.

[projackedreality]

I'd throw rocks at it, hit it with a hammer, throw it on some concrete, and then and only then heat it in the oven... :D

[MADROCKS212]

@projackedreality lol damn straight.

[murphjy]

Yes fullsjuk you are correct the powder bags were used in naval sea and shore artillery after the time period I mentioned. In fact was still used on the Iowa class battleships 15 inch guns right up until their final retirement. I believe it was still used in the big bertha rail guns as well. However I was refering to the shells in this particular video at the time I posted.

[norcofoxrider]

that would be sick to have in your room though.

[DepakoteMeister]

The shells I saw there has already been fired, the driving bands already had rifling marks in them from going down the barrel.

Having said that, they may be dud unexploded HE shells, so pays to be cautious.

[pinwizz69]

OOP,S. There is some shells mixed in there, my boo.

[pinwizz69]

Those are shell casings. Whats left after a round has been fired ! Its highly illegal in Europe REMOVE RELICS FROM ESTABLISHED BATTLEFIELDS. France is seriously down on it !

[oiseautempete]

@pinwizz69

You not undernstand the situation: millions of rounds are fired in WW1 on a very large battlefield and the ground was totaly devasted and ploughed on 10 to 20 meter high...So all years WW2 bombs up to 500kg are found 20m deep during digging operations in middle of the cities totaly destroyed by allied bombing like Brest,Lorient,Le Havre,St Nazaire,etc...but the military objectives (Uboat bases) are left intact!

[murphjy]

IROC...look at the scale compared to the logs. Those are not bullets. They're the warhead part of the munition! Watch the WW1 videos and you'll see them ejecting the shell portion out of the cannons after they were fired. For what ever reason they did'nt go off. They stopped using bags of powder not long after the American Civil war. They may be inert now, but you can be the one that hits them with a shovel...not me!..lol

[fullsjuk]

@murphjy bags of powder were very common in use in ww2,all big ship and coastal guns used them..

[IROC345]

seriously, those are just "bullets", lack of better word, they don't have any powder charge, they are were launched with a powder charge, and they did not usually shoot them out of cases out of the military pieces because that was fairly new technology, they would use bags of powder. But anyways they should be fine to pick up.

[fullsjuk]

@IROC345 those are shell's and they are hi explosive,bullet's you fire from rifles and handguns..

[TheParodiemaster]

you sould hit it with a shovle

[Jesusplant]

best thing to do is hit it with a hammer of some sorts to make sure it's a dud

[GonzoRecovery]

@Jesusplant Yeah....a really BIG hammer...and gotta be prepared to give it a few healthy whacks, too....can't be too careful, eh ?

[someone7974]

is that a mortor?

[icudan]

@someone7974 No mate its an Artillery shell.

[TacticalSuperRebel]

friggin sweet! I'd clean that bitch off and keep it! or sell it....

[jbird0168]

Wonder if any of those are gas shells?

[Dragdamar]

When I was stationed in Germany in 1986 we dug up a bayonet from the 1860s. You can find old weapons from WWII, WWI, and much earlier all over Europe. Just do a little poking around, use a pickaxe...

[guillermola]

be careful with that man

[brettsworld99]

r u sure it isnt just a turd?

[oldrumer4u]

ah hell "fakiir" don't poke it with a stick..... SMACK IT with a HAMMER....HARD

[fakiir]

maybe unstable if they havent been compromised by the elements. something tells me shells in a forest for 90 year are most likely filled with water on the inside and harmless to anyone. poke it with a stick. lol

[mdc2296]

poke it with a stick that is preferrably more than 10 feet long

[IGotHacks]

@mdc2296 xD

[coninater]

if we say that the 500.000 men that died there had more then 5 bullets left without counting the shells then you have 2,5 million unstable bullets in those fields, the bullets are like landmines when they get older, the shells isn't the only problems and not even to think of all the skeletons that are in the ground that wasn't burried

[chunkyfecalbreakfast]

My Dad's over 90 years old and he isn't very dangerous.

[monstercave3]

why do you leave it where it is???

[techfan2121]

cause it could go off, and well that wouldn't be much fun.

[TeRRoRx503]

the ammo could(if it didnt go off) be very unstable

[techfan2121]

i hope those are duds

[SamEatPie]

you know they probably arn't as during the battle of the some most did not explode and some are out there now and are a real danger

[cypris2002]

nope they are real to this day the french army is called due to people finding bombs nades and remains in some places you are not allowed in due to it still has a lot of unexploded amunition

[Worsthoofd]

Did anyone visit the new monument they placed there? It's a church-like building, with a glass cellar which is filled with human skeletons, the remains of those who fought and died there. It's a godawful place... The misery and death is still everywhere.

[34532525]

i dont think it is the same for small arms...i mean you found a bullet...it is going to explode just to touch it? or for big artilery only

[agentolshki]

think they had a lightening strike in the sixties set off an unexploded ammonal mine which would have been under a trench blew some guys field up.

[godwhyisthistaken]

is this true story?

[ushrark]

lol

[simsoad34830]

It is said that you can find 1/3 of earth, 1/3 of bones and 1/3 of metal around verdun. I hope this is exagerated !

[techfan2121]

probably not

[Derangedminor]

I think this is a fake nothings has grown onto it so they freshly put those there but they still may be ww1 bombs

[bekhouwe8888]

Derangedminor,

Ive been on the battlefields of verdun and i can tell u this is not fake. I went to Cote 304 and went for a walk in the woods. The whole area is shelled and you can still see that today. You can find scars of trenches, lots of ammunition (dont touch) some shells are grown others not and u can find wire, pieces of helmets/drinking bottles/knifes and even some human bones.

[ngeks]

why cant you touch them?

[danecooktz]

sometimes shells or ammunitionhave been fired and not exploded and could explode at any time so dont touch

[mae6213]

Unexploded ordnance is extremely dangerous! Even Farmers today are made into gas Victims after plowing up an unexploded shell that suddenly bursts.

[Batcountry45]

since they are so old, the can go off even with the slightest touch.

[davemirra145]

@bekhouwe8888 that sounds interesting

[HubertWolfen]

@bekhouwe8888 you're right. not only in the verdun area still littered with war stuff but all over france. In my grandma's backyard a tree grew aroud an old german helmet ! a ww1 type. and old ammo, old unexploded bombs kills peoples still to this day. some peoples go dig them up and get intoxicated by the chemicals from chemical bombs and other get blown away. I have found skeletons on soldiers when i was a kid....i'm only 30

[puremilitary101]

hey is it possible to refurbish any weapons u find such as an mg-42 or any thing like that and ive heard of people digging into the big 155mm shells and that doesent work good

[mae6213]

I don't know why you would want to. the mg 42 was designed after the first world war. In 1942. Any weapons you found here would be over 90 years old and in very poor condition. Rusty beyond repair, the wood would be gone and the only thing left would be a shriveled brown husk for a barrel and receiever.

[puremilitary101]

well u can scrub the rust off of any thing and replacement parts arent needed if the gun is built right. and u can have a but stock made. but i was just wondering bec i saw a ak-47 found in the mud after a conflict in vietnam just a few years ago they had a vid where he had just found it and he picked it up and it still fired.

[mae6213]

There is no way to refurbish something that old that has been found burried. It really doesnt come down to scrubbing the rust off, at this point, the barrel is entirely rust, there is no scrubbing it. And anything you do to the stock of an old gun is going to bring the value down, if anything. In the end, if you are looking to refurbish an old weapon from the great war, I would look into something that wasnt dug up, and perhaps taken care of over the last century.

[nighttrain1067]

This whole area is still full of remnants of the battle so long ago. You can dig about anywhere and find shrapnel at the very least, as well as casings and small arms projectiles, and even bone shards. (bury them) Stay away from the big ordnance though, much of it has degraded to a point that its highly unstable. People still die here from WWI munitions. Great vid, thanks...

[michaelwright999]

theres tons of that stuff around Verdun etc, Dont Touch it or bang.

[pqwilrj]

I can't believe no one told the authorities about those three shells sitting there for the past 90 years.

[Brainless78]

Ughhh... There are likes 3shells per square meter at verdun...

[iamzemasta]

so..it is dangerous because it is old?

just like my grandparents..

careful, might put you on its knee and spank you

[xennady]

You silly frivolous fool.

It will kill or wound you. Just like in a video game only for real.

It will hurt. Just like when granma spanks you only much worse and for much longer- unless you're dead.

[iamzemasta]

gee do you honestly think i was being serious??

[mae6213]

LOL "Silly frivolous fool.." I love it!

[casev]

i have a dairyfarm 20 km from Verdun. You dont want to know what come`s out of the soil here, if you are ploughing the soil. This year the french army took 35 ``shells`` out of my fields after i was finised ploughing on 5ha.

[seibelstein]

Bewundernswert, wie die Landwirte jedes Jahr die granatverseuchten Böden pflügen. Danach sieht man immer die Granaten am Strassenrand

liegen, bereit zur Abholung durch die Demineure.

Ein Wunder, dass so selten etwas passiert.

(Beim Aushub einer Baugrube im Raum Vaux erhielt ein Bekannter etwas Yperit-Gas (=Lost) in die Augen. Er lag 6 Wochen fast erblindet im Krankenhaus. Das Zeug ist heute

noch gefährlich)

[matthewjdenn]

Mensch, Yperit-Gas in die Augen und erblindet? Wirklich? Den krieg lebt noch!

[Fridomfry]

Each year, we still dig tons of WW 1 & 2 ammunitions out of the French soil and coasts. No wonder that the Allies, in 1919, wanted Germany to pay for that !

[iamzemasta]

i want to poke it with a stick!

[KrazyKraut101]

yes lets all poke 10pound shells with a stick! :D