Has anyone ever heard of ammo "firing" during shipping? How big a bump in the road would a truck have to hit before a round would go off? OK, maybe ammo packed neatly in boxes of 20 or 50 does not allow for the kind of impact necessary to set off the primer, but what about loose packed ammo? I have some Speer ammo that was bought in bulk and loose-packed in boxes of 250 rounds. Obviously, it was shipped all over the country thousands of times in that packaging, and nothing happened (to my knowledge). I'm just curious what it would take, and what would happen if ammo 'ignited'.
Reason for this possibly stupid question? I'm moving, and the shippers are moving a few thousand rounds of ammo for me (they don't know this). I'm wondering about worse-case-scenarios (that's a disease I have), and I started to imagine that if the truck struck a fierce enough bump in the road to slam the loose-packed ammo in a way in which one rim slammed into another round in just the 'wrong' way... what would happen? Would the bullet "firing" have enough energy to set off another round (and a chain reaction - visions of ammo-popcorn racing through my head...)? If one round did go off, would the heat released be enough to set off other rounds?
I've heard that bullets firing without a barrel don't produce much velocity. Everything is packed in metal containers, so assuming a round could fire, I'm not imagining that I'll find a bullet hole running through the rest of my belongings. The only thing that caused me to pause, was the "ammo-popcorn" concept, because that sure would build up a lot of heat...
I'm not losing sleep over this, but once the thought occurred to me, I had to ask.
Reason for this possibly stupid question? I'm moving, and the shippers are moving a few thousand rounds of ammo for me (they don't know this). I'm wondering about worse-case-scenarios (that's a disease I have), and I started to imagine that if the truck struck a fierce enough bump in the road to slam the loose-packed ammo in a way in which one rim slammed into another round in just the 'wrong' way... what would happen? Would the bullet "firing" have enough energy to set off another round (and a chain reaction - visions of ammo-popcorn racing through my head...)? If one round did go off, would the heat released be enough to set off other rounds?
I've heard that bullets firing without a barrel don't produce much velocity. Everything is packed in metal containers, so assuming a round could fire, I'm not imagining that I'll find a bullet hole running through the rest of my belongings. The only thing that caused me to pause, was the "ammo-popcorn" concept, because that sure would build up a lot of heat...
I'm not losing sleep over this, but once the thought occurred to me, I had to ask.