Disposing of live rounds?

[abq87120]

I sometimes end up with a live round after a day of compteition that is in a caliber I do not shoot. Or, I find one laying on the ground at my club. I keep these in a "live" can on my reloading bench. Unfortunately, my club does not have a live round disposal can.

What do you guys do to get rid of your live rounds?

 

[whtsmoke]

sounds to me like you need to start looking for another gun lol

 

[rcmodel]

If I had a reloading bench, which I do have two of.

I would also have a impact bullet puller.

So thats what I would do.

rc

 

[06]

Easy solution--------buy shooters to fit those rounds------

 

[au_prospector]

Follow up to above question

Fair enough RC, I would then ask what to do with the primed case.

I too have some rounds that I would rather not shoot. They are too long on the overall length and the primers are not set correctly (far enough in), they protrude below the bottom rim of the case. ie how do I deprime safely?

Thanks RC!

 

[I922sParkCir]

Exactly what rcmodel said, use a impact bullet puller. I have this one, and it works ok.

I would:

1. Pull the bullet.
2. Toss the powder.
3. Slowly deprime the case.
4. Give the brass and bullet to someone who reloads it.

That said, I don't shoot strange cartridges that I randomly pick up at the range. If I didn't buy or load it, and I don't know who did, then I don't shoot it. It may be someone's squib, or someone's dangerously hot load. Better to be safe.

 

[chris in va]

Toss them in the trash.

 

[4895]

Toss them in the trash.

+1

I wouldn't lose any sleep over a couple of rounds that I can't shoot. LOL.

 

[jcwit]

Break them down with a impact puller. Toss the powder as its an unknown. Deprime the case and reuse the primer for practice or plinking. Sell or give the cases and bullets to someone that can use them.

End of problem.

 

[rcmodel]

Toss them in the trash.

Yea! That too +3.

A few primed cases or even loaded rounds in the weekly garbage pick-up is not gonna instigate a SWAT Team bomb disposal unit in flack suits.

If it worries you, drop them in an empty pop bottle and screw the lid on loose to they can't fall out when the compactor truck squishes the bottle and it pops.

Then, they won't fall out of the cracks in the garbage truck on the street,.
And all the little rug rats on your street won't carry them to school for show & tell the next day.
And get expelled and sent to Guantanamo Bay detention camp for water boarding.

See?
It's win-win situation all the way around!

Besides, it will give archeologist's something to ponder 10,000 years from now when they dig up these clear plastic containers with brass artifacts of unknown origin inside them!!

rc

 

[oneounceload]

I too have some rounds that I would rather not shoot. They are too long on the overall length and the primers are not set correctly (far enough in), they protrude below the bottom rim of the case. ie how do I deprime safely?

Pull bullet, dump powder deprime case if you have the dies, reuse primers if good

If you have a universal decapper die, use that, or as above throw in the trash

 

[Coop45]

I'm with rc on this one. He seems to know alot...probably has even been to Roy's in Hutchinson.

 

[rswartsell]

Well...first of all this is a really bad idea and please don't mistake my sharing with recommending. When a kid (11-12 maybe) we used to toss them in the campfire and watch the brass back off the bullet, sometimes energetically. We were amused at the reversal, brass off of bullet instead of the other way around. I didn't get to be old by being smart.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

I sometimes end up with a live round after a day of compteition that is in a caliber I do not shoot.
Or, I find one laying on the ground at my club.

Unfortunately, my club does not have a live round disposal can.

Don't pick up live rounds from the ground in calibers you don't own.
Let someone who does shoot those calibers find them and pick them up.

Start a live round disposal can at your range.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Catch and release. Bring it back where you found it and fling it with a modicum of flourish. ashes to ashes and all that

 

[CraigC]

Garbage can.

 

[nazshooter]

For those of us without reloading gear? I occationally end up with a dud round (usually 22). Up until this point I've been pulling the bullets with pliers and throwing the primed case in the trash.

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[Sport45]

Pull the bullet and deprime with any sizing die for a larger diameter cartridge. Then drop the brass in your recycle bucket. I quit tossing brass in the trash once I found out it's worth real money. I keep an empty milk jug in the garage for this.

I'd re-use the primer in range fodder that didn't require a mag primer and fling the powder out onto the lawn.