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20-yr-old bullets
2010-07-23, 2:44 PM #1
While cleaning my workbench in the garage (that has been covered with my wife's garage sale CRAP), I found some 22-cal. shells that are easily 23 or 24 years old.

I would like to dispose of them, but I don't know how or who to contact. Anybody know?
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2010-07-23, 3:00 PM #2
know anyone with a .22?
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2010-07-23, 3:04 PM #3
Yeah I'd just try to shoot them. If you have no way to shoot them and really want to be rid of them, you could pull them apart, I guess. Put all the powder in a leather bag and play Are You Afraid Of The Dark?
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2010-07-23, 3:18 PM #4
Quote:
I would like to dispose of them, but I don't know how


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2010-07-23, 3:24 PM #5
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=220648
2010-07-23, 3:42 PM #6
Put them in a vice and hit them with a hammer :XD:
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2010-07-23, 4:30 PM #7
Originally posted by Emon:
Put them in a vice and hit them with a hammer :XD:


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2010-07-23, 4:41 PM #8
I don't know what confusion of thoughts could lead you to, "bullet, hammer, hit."
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2010-07-23, 5:53 PM #9
I think I have some .30-06 from the 70s...
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2010-07-23, 5:58 PM #10
Originally posted by Emon:
I don't know what confusion of thoughts could lead you to, "bullet, hammer, hit."


It's called being a retarded hoosier
2010-07-23, 6:11 PM #11
Do you ever feel bad when someone gets outed as a moron on TV? Like, everyone in that guy's town now knows he's an idiot. He can't pretend. The dude's KIDS know he's an idiot now. I'm not even joking, that makes me feel really bad.
Warhead[97]
2010-07-23, 6:21 PM #12
He should have thought of that before he gave his consent to the news station to do a story on him.
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2010-07-23, 6:24 PM #13
It's terrible when the media portrays someone as an idiot when he or she is really not.

But he looks like he didn't mind being on television. And you can't cover that the idea is truly stupid. You even can't say, well maybe he truly has an inquisitive mind ... you know, the world's great thinkers and innovators did dangerous experiments like this!

He probably will make a recording of the news piece for his idiot relatives if he's not too busy drilling his idiot wife to pump out more idiot children that will populate that idiot backwater community in that idiot state.
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2010-07-23, 6:29 PM #14
My dad has a couple of nasty looking large(?) calibre AP bullets he uses as centre punches. The tips are tungsten and don't have a scratch on them after several years of use.

They're from doing ammunition disposal during his days in the SADF in the 70s. They'd just dig a very deep pit and burn the lot as I understand it, but then I'm English and know **** all about guns.
2010-07-23, 6:35 PM #15
I have a 50 cal bullet that was supposed to go in a plane back in the 60s. Granpa pocketed it, took the gunpowder out, and gave it to me 40 years later.
2010-07-23, 7:08 PM #16
Originally posted by ECHOMAN:
He probably will make a recording of the news piece for his idiot relatives if he's not too busy drilling his idiot wife to pump out more idiot children that will populate that idiot backwater community in that idiot state.


Wow, you should really just shut the **** up. Many people don't know **** about previously vital skills, such as those pertaining to firearms. Brandishing him, his family, a community, and an entire state "idiot" because he didn't realize his attempt to destroy the bullet would put anyone at risk is pretty extreme.
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2010-07-23, 7:12 PM #17
Yeah but he hit it with a hammer. It's not like he carefully thought this process out, taking into account his own lack of knowledge of firearms. By his own admission, he found a live round and hit it with a hammer without thinking about it.
Warhead[97]
2010-07-23, 7:29 PM #18
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2010-07-23, 7:30 PM #19
It probably hit too close to home.
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2010-07-23, 7:41 PM #20
I'd say you hit the bullet on the rock with that one.
2010-07-23, 7:55 PM #21
Got him stuck between a rock and a bullet case
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2010-07-23, 8:08 PM #22
Originally posted by Commander 598:
I think I have some .30-06 from the 70s...


that's nothing i have some 8x56r from 1938


shoots just fine
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2010-07-23, 8:18 PM #23
Storage method would speak to that though, right?
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2010-07-23, 9:43 PM #24
i thought a bullet fired outside the chamber won't travel since there isn't enough pressure built up
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2010-07-23, 9:53 PM #25
Originally posted by stat:
i thought a bullet fired outside the chamber won't travel since there isn't enough pressure built up


...if we used caseless ammunition, maybe?
2010-07-23, 10:22 PM #26
Originally posted by Wookie06:
Brandishing him, his family, a community, and an entire state "idiot" because he didn't realize his attempt to destroy the bullet would put anyone at risk is pretty extreme.


Got to agree with Wookie here. Christ guys, Indiana is bad, but it's not like it's ****ing Kansas. :v:
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2010-07-23, 10:46 PM #27
Originally posted by Jon`C:
...if we used caseless ammunition, maybe?


It won't...I mean, there'll be some force there, of course, plenty to be worried about, but without the back of the case against something solid, and without a nice long barrel to funnel the expanding gases, the bullet isn't going to be propelled too fast. Honestly the case is probably at least as dangerous as the bullet.
Warhead[97]
2010-07-23, 10:47 PM #28
Yeah, but the casing would be pinned by the hammer. And the bullet would have at least as much energy as you'd need to burst the casing, which is still enough to injure someone (obviously.)
2010-07-23, 10:57 PM #29
Apparently, haha. I guess a lot of it might come down to, as you said, the casing being pinned by the hammer. I guess if we assume that he hit the casing hard enough and in the right spot to set off the primer, then it's reasonable to assume that the hammer might have smashed the back of the case enough to effectively hold it still against the rock. I honestly don't know how tough the rim of the casing generally is...I've never tried to hit one with a hammer.

Now I want mythbusters to try this thing out because I am very curious about whether the hammer would bounce or otherwise be unable to hold the case long enough for the bullet to get the majority of the force of the powder.
Warhead[97]
2010-07-23, 11:03 PM #30
Originally posted by BobTheMasher:
Yeah but he hit it with a hammer. It's not like he carefully thought this process out, taking into account his own lack of knowledge of firearms. By his own admission, he found a live round and hit it with a hammer without thinking about it.


Of course, but if you don't know crap about bullets, you wouldn't have much of an idea that hitting one with a hammer is particularly dangerous. I'm guessing he found what he knew could be dangerous and struck it with a hammer in an attempt to disable it. I'm not defending the intelligence of taking the action but that ridiculous insult was just simply disgusting.

Originally posted by stat:
i thought a bullet fired outside the chamber won't travel since there isn't enough pressure built up


I know what you're talking about but it's a little off. A chamber and a barrel is definitely going to focus that energy into a predictable, lethal force. A round exploding would lack that focus, direction, and velocity but have a wildly unpredictable trajectory and lack of stability. But apparently I wouldn't know that because I've lived in Kansas for three years which is another idiot state according to MacFarlane.
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2010-07-23, 11:05 PM #31
The rim's pretty tough - it's a fairly thick brass ring around the primer. Different story if it was rim-fire.

We don't even know what kind of round it was. All they showed was some stock footage of "bullets."
2010-07-23, 11:15 PM #32
True, I've been assuming a pistol round because that's what they showed, but they never did say. Hell, if you went by the actual words spoken, you might have to assume that a guy hit a chunk of lead with a copper jacket and it spontaneously exploded.
Warhead[97]
2010-07-23, 11:42 PM #33
For some reason I was expecting a whiney story about 20-year-old bullies.

Anyway, shouldn't the police know how to get rid of them?
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2010-07-24, 12:05 AM #34
Your PD might take them -- we do..
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2010-07-24, 12:22 AM #35
Originally posted by Wookie06:
I'm guessing he found what he knew could be dangerous and struck it with a hammer in an attempt to disable it.


Yeah, I think that's a pretty idiotic thing to think/do.
Besides, unless you'd pretty much have to have never heard of guns/bullets before to not think that hitting a bullet with a hammer could be dangerous.
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2010-07-24, 12:36 AM #36
"I found an explosive device, I'll hit it really hard to disable it."
Yeah wookie, that makes so much sense. The man's an idiot.
2010-07-24, 1:01 AM #37
Yeah, while I think ECHOMAN went way off the handle on this, the guy was still an idiot.
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2010-07-24, 3:10 AM #38
Originally posted by Freelancer:
news video.


Here I thought it would show a guy hitting a bullet with a hammer. You teased me. Not cool :colbert:
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2010-07-24, 4:08 AM #39
http://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/m2-50-caliber-machine-gun-rock-hand-explosion-memo.jpg
(WARNING: contains very graphic image of what one's hand looks like after setting off the propellent charge of a .50 cal in it)

What's worse some hick from Indiana mistreating a bullet or a soldier who should know better?
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2010-07-24, 7:05 AM #40
Originally posted by Deadman:
Yeah, while I think ECHOMAN went way off the handle on this, the guy was still an idiot.


Please elaborate.

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