Arms cache found in rock pool

Nanfeishen

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2 grenades and 1 round of 20mm dont exactly constitute a "cache". :confused:

Probably find someone had them at home, and didnt want to get caught for illegal arms, and decided to dump them in the sea.
 

Balstrome

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Just like that Izusu advert on cleaning up arms and ammo in mozambique. How many of those weapons actually where in a working condition, or even in a state, where a good gun smith could clean them up to all a bullet to be shot threw the barrel?
 

rwenzori

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2 grenades and 1 round of 20mm dont exactly constitute a "cache". :confused:

Probably find someone had them at home, and didnt want to get caught for illegal arms, and decided to dump them in the sea.

Now that's a sensible explanation. I had been thinking of blasting perlemoen and then shooting them to kill them real dead, but I'll go with Nanfeishen again!
 

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Just like that Izusu advert on cleaning up arms and ammo in mozambique. How many of those weapons actually where in a working condition, or even in a state, where a good gun smith could clean them up to all a bullet to be shot threw the barrel?

Most of the weapons that they come across can still be used, these weapons are very simple and can take a lot of punishment.

I had a interesting chat about this with a chap who was in the task force, he said that they would often select the worst looking weapon and see if they could get it to work. He said that 80% of the time, they got them to work.
 

Iwojima

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Just like that Izusu advert on cleaning up arms and ammo in mozambique. How many of those weapons actually where in a working condition, or even in a state, where a good gun smith could clean them up to all a bullet to be shot threw the barrel?
The AK-47 for one, can be buried for decades, dug up and given a quick oiling and it will fire. The simpler the weapon the more reliable it is.
 

Ady

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Most of the weapons that they come across can still be used, these weapons are very simple and can take a lot of punishment.

I had a interesting chat about this with a chap who was in the task force, he said that they would often select the worst looking weapon and see if they could get it to work. He said that 80% of the time, they got them to work.

They had a documentary on TV where a SAPS member took a AK47 that was to be destroyed during operation Rachel in Moczambique and he told the presenter that he could get the weapon to fire again. It took him about half an hour and a tin of gun oil and he got the AK to fire. It was amazing to see how they were jumping on the weapon and hiting it to break the action free.
 

Hosehead

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Well they didn't find AK-47's. They found a bullet and a couple of wet grenades.
 

slayerza

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Although hardly a 'cache' those grenades could have done some major damage at a crowded public place.
 

R/SGT

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Those grenades can still do what they were designed to do, although they are proberly very unstable
 
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