I have been picking up live rounds at my range for about 3 years. They were dropped by fellow members who I’m guessing just lost them in the dirt and gravel. They are all random brands, some were obviously reloads. I picked them up out of the mud, 108dg baking Texas sun, high humidity, 40dg winters, rain, etc. Some rounds had clearly been there a while because the brass was fairly dark.
So after picking up a few per week and saving 89 rounds in my non climate controlled shed for 3 years, I pulled all the bullets and processed the brass. The original primers were not removed. I then reloaded all 89 cases and primers with 6 grains of HS-6 and 124 grain TC RMR jacketed bullets. I’ve been using this load for months so my complete set up was previously proven with new components. Aprox 1000 of these rounds have been shot with zero failures. I will now attempt shooting the 89 rounds with the old “tortured” primers.
***EDIT: Some of the live rounds were tumbled in walnut media. No open cases were tumbled so no media got in the flash holes (from me anyway). ***
I will shoot these rounds out of my police trade Glock 17 gen 4. It has many thousand rounds through it with no failures.
So, how many will fail to fire? The poll will run for 1 week and then I’ll post the results.
So after picking up a few per week and saving 89 rounds in my non climate controlled shed for 3 years, I pulled all the bullets and processed the brass. The original primers were not removed. I then reloaded all 89 cases and primers with 6 grains of HS-6 and 124 grain TC RMR jacketed bullets. I’ve been using this load for months so my complete set up was previously proven with new components. Aprox 1000 of these rounds have been shot with zero failures. I will now attempt shooting the 89 rounds with the old “tortured” primers.
***EDIT: Some of the live rounds were tumbled in walnut media. No open cases were tumbled so no media got in the flash holes (from me anyway). ***
I will shoot these rounds out of my police trade Glock 17 gen 4. It has many thousand rounds through it with no failures.
So, how many will fail to fire? The poll will run for 1 week and then I’ll post the results.
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