A few years ago a guy on my island had a fire and bullets were flying around the neighborhood. It's a legitimate concern.
Posted on 04/29/2012 6:25:24 AM PDT by marktwain
Cerro Gordo County, IA - Local law enforcement is making an effort to keep ammunition out of the wrong hands.
On Saturday, Cerro Gordo County hosted an ammunition collection day. Folks are encouraged to drop off their unused, unwanted or expired ammunition.
Officers said not only will this help keep the ammunition out of the wrong hands, but it will also help keep your home safe.
"It's very explosive, so if there is fire in your house it can go off and then we're putting our friends at the fire department and our neighbors at risk," said Officer David Studder with the Mason City Police Department.
The collection day wrapped up Saturday evening, but officers said folks are welcome to drop off their old ammunition at any time, and they will dispose of it for you.
I say any fool stupid enough to fall for this BS, doesn’t need ammo and would probably not be on our side anyway.
If you’re standing *very* close to a fire where some ammunition is cooking-off, you might get hit by a sliver of brass from the exploding cartridge case. Maybe. It’s very unlikely that you’d get hit by the bullet, as the heavier part of the cartridge it won’t move more than a few feet when the powder ignites under those circumstances. Metallic cartridges and shotgun shells need to be contained in a firearm’s barrel and chamber in order for projectiles to go “flying”.
So, what exactly is their legal authority to do such a thing? Can they do the same thing with old food items? Household trash? Old cars? How about elderly relatives?
Yes, there are so many fatalities from spontaneous ammunition explosions it has become a national emergency!
LOL...Yes, ammunition can be VERY explosive! "marktwain" does a great job of reporting on the wide variety of "explosions" that occur around the country on a daily basis.
Thank you for the kind words.
“Expired ammo???? Yes, ammo can go bad, but I have shot tons of 60 year old ammo.”
Back in the day I bought a 1916 7mmMauser (7x57) carbine in “fair” condition for seventy-odd$ and they threw in 500rds of WW1 era ammo. I culled a couple with cracked necks, but the rest was fine...burned that up for years.
I have a load of 8mm mauser from 1947 that works just fine.
David Studder is an idiot
IIRC some of the frangible ammo has a short shelf life because the bullet itself, after a period of time, won't hold together when fired.
Then you have people like this David what's his face, that honestly believe because of what they see on TV, that ammo in a fire will fired the bullet out just like it's being fired from a weapon.
Memorable FReeper Labgrade died because the fire department would not approach his burning home because of ammo stored therein.
Did we have 76 Trombones playing for this event?
My goal is to have 200 little boxes of TTSX, GMX, Nosler Partitions, Pro Hunters, ect on my reloading bench; more than I'll ever use the rest of my years. But for sure, since I started reloading and built my back porch bench & target; I do shoot guns way more. No joke, I have over 100 boxes of hunting bullets now; and glad I bought them too. I look for prices to keep going up as the powers that be try to go after hunters & gun owners. To me, it's no different than having a little gold.
I had a buddy lose his cabin to fire last winter, lost all his guns in the vault too. He had most of his ammo outside in storeage shed, but still had loose rounds lying around throughout his house which you could hear going off all night. I've often wondered if extreme cold (minus 60) and a long Alaskan winter would affect ammo, primer, or powder if stored in rubber sealed army ammo box with large block desicant inside? What do you think?
Cold temperature is no problem. It just makes the ammo last longer. At very low temperatures, -30 or below, you lose a couple percent of velocity when you fire at those temperatures. Hardly noticeable.
I hope there weren’t any dogs around.
No Siree Bob!
That.....was some good stuff. Dangerously smooth. Something that I easily could develop a taste for, if I ever hit the Powerball. :-)
Cold will affect the performance when it’s fired cold, but I don’t think storing it in cold will affect it.
Extreme high heat, probably over 150F, over a period of time will degrade the powder.
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