CoRoMo
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So my dad likes to use his empty peanut cans to keep the bullets he casts in. He also uses these cans to keep spent brass separated and occasionally loose handloads, but mostly just the lead bullets he casts. They are pretty handy at separating all the different bullets cast.
Anyway, a few days ago he was going down into his basement with a stack of these in hand and the top peanut can contained loose .45acp loads. When he made the first step, that can toppled off and fell about six feet or so and landed on the third step up from the basement floor. It immediately blew apart, emptying its contents with a loud boom. Here's what's left of that peanut can...
(ignore the separated .223 shell)
One round set off when the can hit the stair it fell to. Below are the remains of the cartridge that went off. You can definitely see that the rim of another round was what impacted the primer. It's amazing that the force was directed in the exact linear path needed for this to happen. Again ignore the separated .223 shell. It isn't connected to this incident.
I'd bet money that he couldn't do that again if he wanted. He could probably roll a can of loose rounds down those stairs a thousand times over and never set off another round like that.
Anyway, a few days ago he was going down into his basement with a stack of these in hand and the top peanut can contained loose .45acp loads. When he made the first step, that can toppled off and fell about six feet or so and landed on the third step up from the basement floor. It immediately blew apart, emptying its contents with a loud boom. Here's what's left of that peanut can...
(ignore the separated .223 shell)
One round set off when the can hit the stair it fell to. Below are the remains of the cartridge that went off. You can definitely see that the rim of another round was what impacted the primer. It's amazing that the force was directed in the exact linear path needed for this to happen. Again ignore the separated .223 shell. It isn't connected to this incident.
I'd bet money that he couldn't do that again if he wanted. He could probably roll a can of loose rounds down those stairs a thousand times over and never set off another round like that.