After I bought myself a brand new Makro Racer 2, in a very short time (less than a season, the device came out in 2016!) became my main metal detector for all my needs. Except I haven’t gotten to the beach with him yet, I’m knocking out all the coins for the Empire. But recently I went to one place where there were small battles in 1944 and where quite a lot of interesting discoveries from the war had already been made, and took Macro Racer 2 with me. And this is what happened:
For the first hour I walked around the already lunar and beaten-out landscape, kept looking and digging out different cartridges (yes, sometimes there were exotic ones, whose VDI was sometimes not immediately recognizable, unlike Mosin nails and German rifle ones), when suddenly Among the dug holes (not buried by other «comrades») an interesting signal came out. I don’t remember the VDI, it was just what it was, but I wanted to dig, the holes on the sides didn’t give me any optimism, but curiosity won out. I dug and the GTO badge appeared in the light of day.
As it seemed to me — post-war, pre-war types were slightly different. Probably some activist went around after the war and lost (I hope he didn’t get blown up) his personal badge. I’ll clean it up and it will be a good addition to the collection!
But I still wanted to find something from the times of the war, naturally. He walked further along the position, dug up several metal cartridge boxes, in quite poor condition, put them on a stump in a pile, let the one who needed them most take them. I dug another signal and pulled out a cadet badge from pre-war production! I wonder if it has remained since 1941? I wouldn’t be surprised, the place is such that there are many historical periods mixed in.
Of course, there are many post-war things, and sometimes even various jokes left by military personnel from exercises during the USSR and its collapse. For example this:
It doesn’t look like a shot from a Panzerschreck (44, of course), so I’m inclined to think that it’s a remnant of a training shot for an RPG-7. If I’m wrong, correct me.
This is what a real shot to the Panzerschreck looks like:
And the funniest and most unexpected culmination for me was another discovery. I caught a good color signal and started digging. I dig deep and it’s immediately clear that the signal is deep, which means something big is lying there. But the signal is good. I got to the point where part of the find became visible — I have the first question: «is it a helmet or a head?». I’m digging with gloves on, but I can’t tell what it is by touch. I widened the hole, dug even deeper and realized that I had found a German helmet and caught it with a metal detector. Great, I haven’t found a helmet for a deep signal from a metal detector yet! Basically, they were either lying in a trench, which you find in a pit, or together with a fighter. True, the bottom was preserved, and even the helmet turned out to be bent.
Here you have a chip (not made by me, it was found), most likely someone scattered it after the war, it is doubtful that in 1944 the helmet ended up far from the positions and completely in the middle of a forest lawn. Although, what the hell is not joking.
And photo from another angle:
What can I add? Racer 2 did not disappoint again, it brought back finds, although I doubted that there would be an interesting cop with a high-frequency device, I thought that I would dig up shell casings again and return home with almost nothing. But no, I was lucky, my grandfather threw good signals under the coil. Although when I dug out the cap and passed the device over it, the signal was completely different — but this is usually a matter for those who are in the know.
I’ll go to the beach soon, I’ll write how it works on the salty sand. I think beachgoers will appreciate it. 😉
I collect everything about the war here, the guys and I often go out to dig up the war, more often in 1944, naturally, but it rarely happens and 41st. Will watch! And about Makro Racer 2 you can read my other posts here.
