If you hit YouTube, and search for ‘magnet fishing’, you can come up with some fascinating videos. And, not surprisingly, there’s a lot of firearms at the bottom of some of these bodies of water. The Europeans, especially, seem to have quite a few bodies of water that are 90% guns. (The original quote was that the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn was the only body of water in the world that was 90% guns.)
I’m not sure if I’d have kept ‘fishing’ after the first couple of rockets turned up. I’ve no experience with those sorts of things and who knows if they were just inert projectiles or actually had some juice behind them. But, if someone knew what they were doing, and had some grande cajones, they could probably do pretty good for themselves salvaging explosive components.
I actually have a couple of magnets like those used in the video. Sadly, I havent found anything nearly as interesting with them. But, maybe someday I’ll dredge up an old ’73 WInchester from under an old bridge or something. More likely just lots of lost car keys.
Still, armies have to practice somewhere…and not every piece of ordnance goes boom like its supposed to. Never know what you might stumble across.
That warden is a tool.
USMC base 29 Palms is one big impact area (been used since WWll for live fire exercises) ,lots of ordinance laying around.
I’d forward the fines to the Army’s Corps Of Engineers and the Base commander’s office, and the court should direct them to clean up the river post-haste, and start assessing daily non-compliance fines until they sweep the entire river clean.
Their circus, their monkeys.
exactly this. The US military doesn’t have magnets? Who thought it was a good idea to just dump the ordnance in the river?
If I was the base CO all the troops would be out there cleaning up.
A lot of “Blue” munitions. Blue signifies training or dummy. The rockets looked like training rounds from a LAWS or other AT weapon. Still enough to take a finger or two.
The rockets were in a duffle bag. So, clearly these items were stolen from the base armory.
So, what specifically is illegal about finding discarded munitions in a public water body?
If you read the article, it says the body of water was not public..its on the base.
So they should’ve just dropped them off on the shore, and called the base Provost Marshal’s Office anonymously afterwards.
Nevada is still right: the game warden who wrote that citation is a tool.
‘Twould be quite the pity if he arrived at the office to find a fresh load of rusty UXO sitting piled up on the front steps one morning, in lieu of thanks. Randomly, on and off for a year.
The tickets are more like for trespassing, not for what they pulled out of the water. They were where they shouldn’t have been … on federal military property without permission.
Don’t you have a “water” hi power?
So thats the river I lost all my guns on in my boating accident…
My brother magnet fishes in the Mississippi near Mpls. He’s found mostly junk, but a couple of full pistol mags, a couple sets of handcuffs, and a couple of cell phones (early ones w more metal).
I don’t see the attraction, but he enjoys it. Some places he looks, I suspect the bottom looks like the bottom under that bridge in a recent DeNiro mob movie, littered with weapons with bodies on them.