A friend who spent some time in the field in Pakistan tells me that he saw Paki military out witching for landmines. They seemed to have confidence in the method. I wouldn’t want to go along for the demonstration, but it’s something to think about.
We were impressed too by the witching for metal. Each time the metal rods crossed, we would take a plumb bob and lower it to the ground. Each time there was metal there.
They offered to teach us how to do the witching. One of our guys became really good at it. Others not so good.
It’s one thing to witch for metal and another thing entirely to witch for land mines.