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Originally posted by Tony Smith
Funny, too, how the Nat Pk people have reacted. We have a large Munitions depot near here that has been disposing of time-expired ordnance for the best part of 60 years. The State Forest behind it has also been extensively used for Mil Ex's for probably just as long. It is still quite possible to find all kind or spent ordnance all through the place, but there are no restrictions throughout the SF at all. It's off limits to the Bush Firefighters during a fire, though, as the firefront sweeps through and it sounds like a Chinese New Year. A couple of years ago, a dump of 25pdr shells and 20mm AA were found that had been buried in a trench, but a nearby creek had eroded it's banks and moved, exposing them. Don't think I'd like to be near that in a fire!
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Am on a local VBFB up here at gero, we watched what we thought was a power transformer or something start arcing up about 30m from our 3.4 heavey truck behind some smoke, We didnt think it sounded right and we realised there were no powerlines in that direction, the next noise we herd sounded like 100 of those american mini chain guns going off and we saw the ground slowley rise up. ever seen a eight ton fire truck do a donut and spin its wheeles! Gero had 2 armd divisions during 42 to 44, civil population about 4500. dont want to know what else is there!