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To: marktwain

I would dry it and use it for target practice only. For defensive use at home, use new ammo which has been stored cool and dry.


14 posted on 09/18/2017 12:38:20 PM PDT by entropy12 (Republicans flirt with liberal media who will never vote for them! So dumb.)
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To: entropy12
I would dry it and use it for target practice only.

Gas oven or will a microwave do the trick?

31 posted on 09/18/2017 1:04:25 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
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To: entropy12
"I would dry it and use it for target practice only."

Yep! Living on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, the storm surge for 2003 hurricane Elizabeth left 4-feet of water and mud in the first floor of my house.

Some of the ammo I had stored was not on the three 20-ft-long wall shelves that were 4-6 feet off the floor where most of my ammo was stored.

Net result was that 4 cases of ammo were under water for 2-days. I tried giving the ammo to a local gunsmith. He refused it. So over a period of 6-weeks I opened all the cases (4000 rnds 7.62 and .223) and spread the ammo out on towels to dry. Most were just slightly damp.

8-years later I gave most of the ammo to my grandsons to test and use for practice. Amazingly they have had few jams or other problems in the 6-years they have been using it.

35 posted on 09/18/2017 1:20:27 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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