Hey Beau, I am a former US Navy Corpsman. All males in my family are military too. I have to say I love your channel. I appreciate your attention to detail and your preservation of our past. Your collection is a representation of the men who answered the call, left their families, and etched our future for this country. Thank you for what you do. Mike Gartner
Hi. I was blown away when you turned the camera around and I seen how big your collection really is! Can you give us a walk around of your room where all of your collection is? I'd like to see everything you've found!
Another awesome video Chigg. My father in-law served in the Navy and was a Pearl Harbor survivor. He was a Chief Warrant Carpenter and while serving on the USS Hampton, a troop transport vessel, he made a set of ashtrays from every size shell that the ship carried. I inherited these along with his papers and cherish them in my archive on the families history. You have some great stuff and I really enjoyed the video. Once again you have helped educate me on a subject I have long had an interest in. Now I will go find those ashtrays and take a look at their bottoms to see what information I can get from them. Thanks once again for a great video.
I love looking at all the brilliant stuff you have collected, I also enjoy listening to what each one did and how it was used. Brilliant video, thank you. xx
Love this! My grandfathers where in ww2 it’s nice to see these things - I’m blessed to have still had them after the war. Thank god. I can’t believe the military dumped this stuff. Blows my mind. Thanks for showing it.
You are correct on the 3-inch casing and the 75mm shell. The 76mm gun was just the 3-inch shell in a smaller case so they would fit in the tank turret. The 3-inch guns were used as towed anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns, and in M10 tank destroyers. If that steel case fit the 37mm round but is rimless, it's for the 37mm anti-aircraft gun. Those cases were the same length as the tank/anti-tank guns, but the tank guns used a rimmed cartridge case. Very neat stuff!
Wonderful video and thanks for sharing that TM. I find many military rounds of all kinds and that TM will be helpful. You are correct, you can get it on PDF online. Thanks as usual.
I envy you're collection as well as your knowledge. There is a lot of passion, blood sweat and tears involved with that amazing museum you have created.
Tommy Vinson hello sir, i turned 72 three months ago and my cat died i was wondering if we could fax eachother my fax is 356-660-1635 thanks brother i miss you
I just have to say thank you for doing what you do and shedding light on what would have been destroyed and forgotten history. I think that's why we do it the most. It is for me anyways. Bragging is deserved for the research, time and effort put in. Show it all!
Thanks for Sharing !!! Im a WW2 enthusiast. I love the History of the era . Americans fighting on two fronts carving out there place in the books we would read today . Amazing Finds !
I remember eating off those style trays in basic training in 1980. I also want you to know that as an old armament soldier, I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing a small part of your collection with us.
"Anything else you wanna see here?"... eeeehhh.. I want to see EVERYTHING :D Would be awesome with a full coverage of your relics that are visible at home!
Evening AquaChigger, I'm a fairly new to your channel (about a month) but thoroughly enjoy your videos. I've always day dreamed about treasure hunting and decided to get a metal detector in the Fall of 2016. Through my research on which detector to buy, I discovered your channel by chance. I've noticed a few rivers you've been in are you've commented they stink or you're spitting out the water. Have you ever searched a river and got sick or thought to yourself what the hell I'm I doing in this polluted mess? Cheers, Adam
I would absolutely love a full tour of the entire collection been watching your videos for years seen a lot of the collection but absolutely love these type videos in the winter gets me pumped up to go out myself thanks so much
I may be girl, wife and mom but for some reason coming across your channel has really educated me and entertained me so thank you for the time you take to do what you do!!! Kimberly 😊
My daughter would love to have one of those trays, She can't stand for her food to touch. Her aunt gave her a few plastic trays this year for Christmas. It was her favorite present above everything else Santa gave her. including the high dollar Bluetooth headphones. So Santa does not have to listen to her music anymore.... Great Video Sir! Would love to see ALL of your collection!!
Great collection. The 3 inch gun is a common item in small town parks, VFW, American Legion Halls, and court house lawns around the country. It is in fact a 76mm gun that was used as light artillery and sometimes as an anti tank weapon. It was adopted before the US switched to the metric system for large guns. It's weakness was the low velocity of the round. As it was meant to fire explosive rounds as artillery the lower speed of the shell was safer when firing the explosive rounds. When the war started those small 37mm rounds were the ones intended for anti tank duty. However the race in armor soon made them obsolete and the 75 and then 76 were brought in. By the end of the war 90 and 105 mm guns became the tank killers.
Wow! Love that room you're in! I came across you're videos a few weeks back and I'm loving them! Love the stuff you find and everything. You're collection is massive! 😎👍
I want to see your favorite finds. Just a variety of the things you enjoyed finding the most. I recently took up this hobby and have been watching your videos for a bout 3 months and learned alot. I recently found my first arrow head. Another video I would like to see is the weirdestruction things you've found keep up the good work. Your one of the reason I haven't given up on finding civil relics.
yeah man your teaching me alot. I'm 32 so by the time I'm 50 or 60 lol... you said it not me. I'm trying to have me a relic room like yours. I live in Columbia South Carolina a lot of skirmishes and the burning of Columbia.
Very cool video. I learn a lot when you do these types of videos. I'd like to see your whole collection but anything you choose to share and talk about is cool with me. Amazing stuff.
Hi from Australia. You have a Fantastic looking collection around you, please pick some more things in your collection you would like to talk about. I know that swords and sabres and knives from the civil war would be a cool show and tell. Love your videos. Cheers Vic.
I have been wanting to see some of your relics for so long now. Now that you have given us a little taste we are hungry for more ( Moar ). I would love to see more of your collection. I loved this video, thanks for sharing.
Once again it's great to see your man cave items I for one would really like to see all your treasure I have no idea about any war items but it's great to see what you are finding so I just want to see it all (what a pile of artillery I'm impressed) thank's for sharing I like the finds from all your adventures but it's great that you have a lot of Snow so you stay indoors and wee get to see your museum again! thank's
I love your videos!The 3" were anti aircraft/anti tank rounds.The anti tank gun m-5 was a 3"towed piece and the tank destroyers m36b-1 and m36b-2 were mechanized.
The bayonets are for the M1 Garand. They are the 1943 pattern of shortened M1905 to 10 inches. This can be seen by the blood groove on the blade going all the way to the tip. I have the same model for my M1.
I served aboard a destroyer in the mid 60's and that's the same style mess tray we took through the mess line. When we were in rough seas we pressed them down on a slice of bread to the table to keep them from sliding as the ship pitched and rolled. Sometimes you would have to lift your tray to allow a runaway tray to slide by. Eventually the new shipmates learned the trick. T
Those shotgun type rounds and modern flechette rounds "beehive" were sometimes used to defend artillery positions. They could adjust charge for short range and the battery would go to a zero elevation and fire a sheaf of antipersonnel projectiles. Creating devastating lethal effects to assaulting infantry. Anti personnel were ground VT or VT quick, air burst for troops in holes. Now includes regular schrapnel that can be directed in patterns. Awesome firepower "King of Battle". Fantastic collection Chigg!! Another great video. :D
Great finds Chig, people hunt for those relics in Europe but would never find these in this condition. A side note, I notice not even half of the people commenting here are actually talking about the content of your video which I find surprising.
Hey Man! I luv the Aquachigger channel and really been enjoying the collection videos. You have an awesum collection and would luv to see more of it . Huge fan 👍!!
Hey Chigg, i looked all over for an at gold vs at pro video on you're channel. I think you actually talked about it but it'd be great to see one. GOOD LUCK DIGGING!
I was a 13Bravo in the Army and I fired a 8" Howitzer. They used a 200 pound bullet! I still have a primer from one. They are the size of a .410 shotgun shell and solid brass! SHOT OUT! SHOT SPLASH!
Hey, Chigg! I'd like to see a general video of your entire collection in the room you're in in this video! You have tons of amazing things there!
James Taylor i second that!
Agreed - love to see more.
i already said that in the other vid
Yes me too! :)
too:)
Hey Beau,
I am a former US Navy Corpsman. All males in my family are military too. I have to say I love your channel. I appreciate your attention to detail and your preservation of our past. Your collection is a representation of the men who answered the call, left their families, and etched our future for this country. Thank you for what you do.
Mike Gartner
Very interesting and educational. Would love to see much more of your collection.
I remember when you had 500,000 Subs. It’s been a long way man.
open up a Chigg museum!
Will Earley yes.
A Chiggseum. I think it would be good.
Hi. I was blown away when you turned the camera around and I seen how big your collection really is! Can you give us a walk around of your room where all of your collection is? I'd like to see everything you've found!
Another awesome video Chigg. My father in-law served in the Navy and was a Pearl Harbor survivor. He was a Chief Warrant Carpenter and while serving on the USS Hampton, a troop transport vessel, he made a set of ashtrays from every size shell that the ship carried. I inherited these along with his papers and cherish them in my archive on the families history.
You have some great stuff and I really enjoyed the video. Once again you have helped educate me on a subject I have long had an interest in. Now I will go find those ashtrays and take a look at their bottoms to see what information I can get from them. Thanks once again for a great video.
love to see everything in that room wow!
If you could give us a tour of your relic room that would be GREAT!
Jack Durham hey jack
I love looking at all the brilliant stuff you have collected, I also enjoy listening to what each one did and how it was used. Brilliant video, thank you. xx
Love this! My grandfathers where in ww2 it’s nice to see these things - I’m blessed to have still had them after the war. Thank god. I can’t believe the military dumped this stuff. Blows my mind. Thanks for showing it.
You are correct on the 3-inch casing and the 75mm shell. The 76mm gun was just the 3-inch shell in a smaller case so they would fit in the tank turret. The 3-inch guns were used as towed anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns, and in M10 tank destroyers. If that steel case fit the 37mm round but is rimless, it's for the 37mm anti-aircraft gun. Those cases were the same length as the tank/anti-tank guns, but the tank guns used a rimmed cartridge case. Very neat stuff!
Ive been waiting for so long for this!!!! thank you!!!
Wieldy Relic same
Wonderful video and thanks for sharing that TM. I find many military rounds of all kinds and that TM will be helpful. You are correct, you can get it on PDF online. Thanks as usual.
I envy you're collection as well as your knowledge. There is a lot of passion, blood sweat and tears involved with that amazing museum you have created.
Any and all from the Chigg Collection!!!...Thanks for posting these!
Great items Beau. Yeah they are Garand bayonets.
Tommy Vinson hello sir, i turned 72 three months ago and my cat died i was wondering if we could fax eachother my fax is 356-660-1635 thanks brother i miss you
Tommy Vinson hey tom, miss ya bud waiting for your fax
Tommy Vinson i used a garand when i was stationed in vietnam, those m14s never lived up to the garand
That is awesome, the treasure you find is mindbogling, i really look forward to someday hunting with you. Till then good luck and happy hunting.
Amazing how much WWII relics you have found! Thanks for sharing! ~Gypsy
I just have to say thank you for doing what you do and shedding light on what would have been destroyed and forgotten history. I think that's why we do it the most. It is for me anyways. Bragging is deserved for the research, time and effort put in. Show it all!
Thanks for Sharing !!! Im a WW2 enthusiast. I love the History of the era . Americans fighting on two fronts carving out there place in the books we would read today . Amazing Finds !
I love it I could spend days in there looking and appreciateing all the history well displayed
The 3 inch casing is a anti aircraft shell us by the Navy , and is fired electrically !
Donald G Banhart hey don, miss ya. take care of yourself
Very nice! Love to see all your stuff!
Gary Stone hey gary, i wouldnt have ever guessed to see ya on here
I remember eating off those style trays in basic training in 1980. I also want you to know that as an old armament soldier, I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing a small part of your collection with us.
I'd love to see more of your collection. I like that you give some detailed history about the items.
"Anything else you wanna see here?"... eeeehhh.. I want to see EVERYTHING :D Would be awesome with a full coverage of your relics that are visible at home!
Evening AquaChigger,
I'm a fairly new to your channel (about a month) but thoroughly enjoy your videos. I've always day dreamed about treasure hunting and decided to get a metal detector in the Fall of 2016. Through my research on which detector to buy, I discovered your channel by chance. I've noticed a few rivers you've been in are you've commented they stink or you're spitting out the water. Have you ever searched a river and got sick or thought to yourself what the hell I'm I doing in this polluted mess?
Cheers,
Adam
Aquachigger can you please do an entire room tour for a person who is starting to collect?(me)
Mr Chig, can you make a video where you tell your stories about the human bodies or body parts you have found?
Seems a bit morbid, but yeah, I have to admit I'm curious too.
keep these coming Chigg. I love the preservation vids and these close-ups. thanks again for posting.
Very interesting Beau. Thanks for sharing this part of your collection with us.
I would absolutely love a full tour of the entire collection been watching your videos for years seen a lot of the collection but absolutely love these type videos in the winter gets me pumped up to go out myself thanks so much
I may be girl, wife and mom but for some reason coming across your channel has really educated me and entertained me so thank you for the time you take to do what you do!!!
Kimberly 😊
Love, LOve, LOVe, LOVE WHEN YOU EDUCATE US... Please don't ever change what you do, or what you show us...!
My daughter would love to have one of those trays, She can't stand for her food to touch. Her aunt gave her a few plastic trays this year for Christmas. It was her favorite present above everything else Santa gave her. including the high dollar Bluetooth headphones. So Santa does not have to listen to her music anymore....
Great Video Sir! Would love to see ALL of your collection!!
Great collection.
The 3 inch gun is a common item in small town parks, VFW, American Legion Halls, and court house lawns around the country. It is in fact a 76mm gun that was used as light artillery and sometimes as an anti tank weapon. It was adopted before the US switched to the metric system for large guns.
It's weakness was the low velocity of the round. As it was meant to fire explosive rounds as artillery the lower speed of the shell was safer when firing the explosive rounds.
When the war started those small 37mm rounds were the ones intended for anti tank duty. However the race in armor soon made them obsolete and the 75 and then 76 were brought in. By the end of the war 90 and 105 mm guns became the tank killers.
I love the look of the collections on the wall
Wow! Love that room you're in! I came across you're videos a few weeks back and I'm loving them! Love the stuff you find and everything. You're collection is massive! 😎👍
What a fantastic collection you have. Thank you for sharing it with us!
I love to see your collection videos! That was great and extremely interesting!
I want to see your favorite finds. Just a variety of the things you enjoyed finding the most. I recently took up this hobby and have been watching your videos for a bout 3 months and learned alot. I recently found my first arrow head. Another video I would like to see is the weirdestruction things you've found keep up the good work. Your one of the reason I haven't given up on finding civil relics.
yeah man your teaching me alot. I'm 32 so by the time I'm 50 or 60 lol... you said it not me. I'm trying to have me a relic room like yours. I live in Columbia South Carolina a lot of skirmishes and the burning of Columbia.
Its all so awesome I could spend hours looking at it all.
Very cool video. I learn a lot when you do these types of videos. I'd like to see your whole collection but anything you choose to share and talk about is cool with me. Amazing stuff.
Hey Beau, As always ....great video, very educational. Thanks again!
Hi from Australia. You have a Fantastic looking collection around you, please pick some more things in your collection you would like to talk about. I know that swords and sabres and knives from the civil war would be a cool show and tell. Love your videos. Cheers Vic.
Amazing collection! I'd love to get a tour of the room. I even love your stories of past finds. You tell a good tale.
Yay! Your videos are popping up in sub boxes again!
Yes please show all your collection !!
A good friend, bullet in the background is well decorated, too ! Over 12 years of excavation have gathered a lot of different bullets !
Cool stuff Chig, always good to see your finds..
I would love to see more of this type of videos, your collection is quite impressive!
with all those relics looks like it could be a museum well done chigg
quality videos chigg,thanks for taking the time making them,really interesting stuff,all the best from the uk
I have been wanting to see some of your relics for so long now. Now that you have given us a little taste we are hungry for more ( Moar ). I would love to see more of your collection. I loved this video, thanks for sharing.
Once again it's great to see your man cave items I for one would really like to see all your treasure I have no idea about any war items but it's great to see what you are finding so I just want to see it all (what a pile of artillery I'm impressed) thank's for sharing I like the finds from all your adventures but it's great that you have a lot of Snow so you stay indoors and wee get to see your museum again! thank's
awesome collection .....love to see your old coins silver and copper
I love your videos!The 3" were anti aircraft/anti tank rounds.The anti tank gun m-5 was a 3"towed piece and the tank destroyers m36b-1 and m36b-2 were mechanized.
thanks for letting us see your collection. Want to see More.
Keep showing us your stuff!!
Keep making videos!!
WOW , ALOT OF COOL STUFF ! you been busy . Cool vid , as usual. THANKS !
show us anything or everything I could watch this all day Mr chigg
The bayonets are for the M1 Garand. They are the 1943 pattern of shortened M1905 to 10 inches. This can be seen by the blood groove on the blade going all the way to the tip. I have the same model for my M1.
I'd love to see more of these collection videos.
I served aboard a destroyer in the mid 60's and that's the same style mess tray we took through the mess line. When we were in rough seas we pressed them down on a slice of bread to the table to keep them from sliding as the ship pitched and rolled. Sometimes you would have to lift your tray to allow a runaway tray to slide by. Eventually the new shipmates learned the trick.
T
Those shotgun type rounds and modern flechette rounds "beehive" were sometimes used to defend artillery positions. They could adjust charge for short range and the battery would go to a zero elevation and fire a sheaf of antipersonnel projectiles. Creating devastating lethal effects to assaulting infantry. Anti personnel were ground VT or VT quick, air burst for troops in holes. Now includes regular schrapnel that can be directed in patterns. Awesome firepower "King of Battle". Fantastic collection Chigg!! Another great video. :D
What a great collection you have, love it !
Thank you for showing and explaining shell wind guard. Found a couple over here in the UK, knew it was something, from something.
Great finds Chig, people hunt for those relics in Europe but would never find these in this condition. A side note, I notice not even half of the people commenting here are actually talking about the content of your video which I find surprising.
Thank you for sharing this with us, would love to see "Moar" of your incredible collection.
Nice and educational two thumbs up!
Always interesting.Thank you for sharing.
Nice video chigg, always happy when i see a new video of yours
Hey Man! I luv the Aquachigger channel and really been enjoying the collection videos. You have an awesum collection and would luv to see more of it . Huge fan 👍!!
love the collection Chig!
Some really nice and interesting finds, good job finding so much nice objects!
A fantastic collection..Thank you..
Hey Chigg, i looked all over for an at gold vs at pro video on you're channel. I think you actually talked about it but it'd be great to see one. GOOD LUCK DIGGING!
I was a 13Bravo in the Army and I fired a 8" Howitzer. They used a 200 pound bullet! I still have a primer from one. They are the size of a .410 shotgun shell and solid brass! SHOT OUT! SHOT SPLASH!
I for one would enjoy see any part or section of any of your collections.
those mess trays are the same we used at camp pendleton in 1969, thanks for showing the artifacts
Great video Aquachigger!
Thanks for everything
Great video. Thanks for sharing!
very cool. can honestly say I learned something today. thanka chigz
love your vids I have learnt so much without even leaving the house! Keepem comin. Wendy NZ 🇳🇿
Oh my god. So many amazing things! You're so lucky.
Interesting. I am not a collector of WWII items but I like seeing them My father was in WWII and landed on Utah beach. Keep up the good work.
Johnny Sunday hey johnny i love you
holy cow.. great collection. just thinking of hauling all that stuff out of the river had me reaching for the advil..... lol. very very interesting
Amazing collection! Love u chigg
Really fantastic collection you have amassed
Great video! Would love to see one on all your best coin finds. I know you're more of a relic guy but a coin video would be much appreciated!
I love it and would appreciate small animal rescue stories .
Pretty interesting Chig. Keep them coming.
Awesome thanks chiggs!
Your a great historian beau,museum quality.
I think you were cleaning some of these in a previous video. Wow! Pretty extensive collection! Very interesting!
You have to have a civil war comb laying around there somewhere.....
Let's see your whole collection!! You inspired me to make one of my own!
Very nice collection, thanks.
Very informative. Thank you.