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Two days ago I ventured back to the gebirgsjäger forest to look for more helmets and such. As I parked the car I noticed that the ground was white of ice. The frost had arrived. But as the sun rose, ( yes, maybe the fifth day with sun since june ) the ice crystals melted. The ground stayed quite cold troughout the day though. The finds during the first few hours was crappy. Food tins, large bolts, bits of sheet metal and other boring stuff. Then I came across a small ravin

Three meters away from the Blendax pit I struck upon another little garbage dump. This one was filled with broken glass from bottles and windows. Tons of it. But also a few other relics. It had the third rifle cleaning kit of the day, another gas mask canister, a very interesting bottle I have never seen before, a half rotted K98 ammo pouch and a pair of goggles. And a to me very interesting find.

Signals everywhere. Crate parts, creamtubes and food tins seemed to litter the place, but the best find I had before my allotted time for detecting was up I spotted with my eyes even before the detector came near it. A metal pipe stuck out from the ground near the edge of the marsh. I grabbed it and pulled it straight out. A rifle!