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13 January 2011, 21:55 #1Contributing Member
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Would you shoot this stuff?
Backstory: I bought a bunch of green tip a while ago, it supposedly came out of a belt and the guy stored it loose in the ammo can.
Apparently he didn't take very good care of it, because I had about three dozen rounds that looked questionable after doing a 100% check on every cartridge.
Thing is, these all drop right into a clean LMT chamber and will fall right out when the upper is turned upside-down.
The round on the far right has a crease about halfway down the case, it's pretty weird and I don't think I want to shoot it:
The ones with minor dents, are they still good for plinking or should I consider them junk?
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13 January 2011, 22:23 #2
To me, the damaged rounds look like reloads that once were damaged by a feeding problem. Or ammunition that was cycled into the chamber and ejected without being shot. If you don't know exactly where the rounds came from, I would be careful in what I put in my rifle. If they are reloads, which they very well could be, you should be careful in trusting where they come from if you do not personally know the source. As for the damaged rounds, I would not personally put them into my rifle.
Additionally, do any of them have primer strikes? Even a chambered round usually has a minor primer strike on it from the firing pin when the BCG seats in the chamber.
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13 January 2011, 22:25 #3
And from a Firearms Instructor standpoint...the dented rounds would go into our "Bad Bullet" can and not even be attempted to be fired. Ammo is cheap (relatively)...fixing a damaged rifle is not.
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13 January 2011, 22:25 #4
If they chamber then you are fine.
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13 January 2011, 22:37 #5Contributing Member
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No dents on the primers but I did notice some of them had scratches from the feed lips of a metal mag, like they had been loaded and unloaded or something.
It almost looks as if a few handfuls of junk ammo got tossed into a batch of good ammo, the rest of the stuff is shiny and the cases are pristine.
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13 January 2011, 23:00 #6
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14 January 2011, 03:42 #7Distinguished Member
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14 January 2011, 09:22 #8Contributing Member
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I'm keeping them separate and starting a new stash of "absolute last resort" ammo.
Thanks for the input guys.
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14 January 2011, 09:32 #9
I can see little reason to use or even hold onto heavily damaged ammunition. I don't mean minor dents, but when you look at that second round, what possible use could you have for it?
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14 January 2011, 10:25 #10Contributing Member
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The rounds pictured are getting tossed, those are by far the worst ones that I found.
The other damaged rounds have tiny dings in the cases and they look fine to me, those are the ones I'm keeping.
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14 January 2011, 12:46 #11
Well it's an agreement with all, dump the bad ammo before it becomes an issue. We put stuff like that in a can and our gun nutz guys take it apartment for other use.
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15 January 2011, 13:40 #12
I've ran ammo that looks like that through weapons I don't own (just issued)... no negative results thus far, however, I would absolutely not use it in a personal gun, nor rely on it as carry stuff. Ammo is comparably cheap.
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