WWII Guns dug up and restored

[Mark Ducati]

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/82266608/

Wouldn't weapons buried for 60-70 years be rusted beyond repair? Some of the weapons in the above link look brand new.

Cool, none the less...

[1 Patriot-of-many]

WTF? How do they have more freedom to buy and sell? Do they demil them? Something fishy here, I see some modern weapons like an AMD63, Some Ak's......

[Krupski]

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/82266608/

Wouldn't weapons buried for 60-70 years be rusted beyond repair? Some of the weapons in the above link look brand new.

Cool, none the less...

Looks like some of the "gun room" pictures the guys here have posted. Much nicer than my meager collection.

[mrkalashnikov]

I call BS on the "dug up" part.

There's no way the weapons in those photos were buried in the ground, unless they were first placed in air/waterproof containers along w/ a lot of cosmoline. Most probably they've been sitting in Russian warehouses since WWII. The German hardware obviously Russian-captured.

[Tx Dogblaster]

Somehow I just don't believe the AMD65 or he Romy sidefolder were from WWII... I also call BS on the "dug up" claim. Maybe "dug out" of a warehouse but not out of the ground.

[Full Otto]

Depends on where I suppose. Out in a field yeah, but in a bog somewhere might be salvageable.

There is the tank they found a while back:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOMiRsodVHk

[Tx Dogblaster]

I remember when Drudge ran that story on the tank. That was some pretty cool $hit!

[Full Otto]

Here's an older update on it:
http://www.diving.ee/articles/art035.html
The restoration and overhaul of the T-34’s parts and components have been completed and the vehicle is now at the club’s workshop in the tractor park near the village of Sirgala (in the woods about halfway between Narva and Johvi), awaiting final re-assembly. The Estonians hope to achieve this in 2007, and finally realise their dream of being able to offer visitors to the museum a ride on a historic T-34 – and a turncoat one at that.
........
They must be giving rides by now

[Penguin]

Looks like they found a lot more than just WW2 stuff. As for weather they dug it up or what I suppose it is possible. It would depend on where it was found. Not so long ago they dug up an old spitfire and got one of the machine guns working.

[tank_monkey]

Somehow I just don't believe the AMD65 or he Romy sidefolder were from WWII... I also call BS on the "dug up" claim. Maybe "dug out" of a warehouse but not out of the ground.

I believe the 'dug up part' meant that they were HIDDEN in basements all these years and were 'dug up'. I recently got an email from a friend who is visiting in Russia where a farmer found an arms cache that had been covered with dirt (some sort of excess dirt from a nearby construction site) for about 40 years and when he started digging a trench to add plumbing to a remote shack, he ran into a large underground basement (just a large root/wine cellar) with crates of guns covered in burlap and cosmoline. THAT'S that I think they mean. I don't think they mean the individual guns are lying in wet ground all these years.....

Also The GUNS ROOM is a collection of ALL THE GUNS they repair (including newer guns, I noticed a Chinese Type 56 with pig sticker in there), but they are showcasing the ones they found. So the WW2 ones are the only ones that were 'dug up' It's a combination of bad writing and bad grammar that doesn't differentiate between guns they are repairing that are not 'dug up relics' and guns that are.

[Full Otto]

Did anyone follow the comments? The story seems kind of lost on that audience.
Nice to see those old guns still running

[slamfire51]

BS on the 'Dug Up' part.

[T2K]

It's a gun collection, which is fine. The "dug up from battlefields and restored" part is BS.

M1 Carbine? MAS 36? Those weren't used on the Eastern front. Not to mention the post-WWII weapons there.

[rci2950]

lets get down to brass tacks, how much for the machinegun?

[Full Otto]

Seems some others just found a WWI trench in France pretty much in tact

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4122205/WWI-trench-troops-found-almost-a-century-after-they-were-killed.html
Turning back time ... twenty-one German soldiers entombed in a perfectly preserved World War One shelter have been discovered 94 years after they were killed

[El Duce]

Seems some others just found a WWI trench in France pretty much in tact

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4122205/WWI-trench-troops-found-almost-a-century-after-they-were-killed.html
Turning back time ... twenty-one German soldiers entombed in a perfectly preserved World War One shelter have been discovered 94 years after they were killed

That is interesting. Would be neat if they could preserve it somehow.

[El Duce]

I have been here. The Trench of Bayonets.

http://www.worldwar1.com/heritage/bayonet.htm

[T2K]

Seems some others just found a WWI trench in France pretty much in tact

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4122205/WWI-trench-troops-found-almost-a-century-after-they-were-killed.html
Turning back time ... twenty-one German soldiers entombed in a perfectly preserved World War One shelter have been discovered 94 years after they were killed

That was interesting, thanks for posting.