Bronze Lifetime
- Messages
- 4,929
- Reactions
- 12,993
Funny what you can find at the range. I got a bit of a kick out of this, thought I'd share just for fun. People are digging out the old odds and ends for shooting ammo, it seems.
It's rare to find any brass besides 9mm, .40 S&W, .45acp, and the occasional .380 on the ground, so I picked up some .38 Specials when I spotted them. One round was still live.
I noticed right off that it was different. I've never been a serious collector, but I've been interested in, accumulated and handled old ammo since I was a kid. I knew this was an OLD round- balloon head case, copper primer, headstamp. Also not a reload.
I got home early today and am sitting at my desk, saw the round sitting there so I stuck it in the kinetic bullet puller and pulled it apart. Instead of the typical small amount of gray gunpowder that you'd find in the typical .38 Special, I find a case full of white powder. Under magnification it looks like Rice Crispies.
My first thought was one of the early "bulk" smokeless powders, black powder substitute. I did a little looking around on the internet and read about DuPont #2 Bulk, and found a photo on a forum, which I borrowed and attached (credit to w44wcf, whoever that is ) That sure looks a lot like what I found.
Anyhow, I thought it was an interesting thing to find laying on the ground, one dud and two empties that did fire. I wonder if whoever fired them realized that they were well over a hundred years old.
It's rare to find any brass besides 9mm, .40 S&W, .45acp, and the occasional .380 on the ground, so I picked up some .38 Specials when I spotted them. One round was still live.
I noticed right off that it was different. I've never been a serious collector, but I've been interested in, accumulated and handled old ammo since I was a kid. I knew this was an OLD round- balloon head case, copper primer, headstamp. Also not a reload.
I got home early today and am sitting at my desk, saw the round sitting there so I stuck it in the kinetic bullet puller and pulled it apart. Instead of the typical small amount of gray gunpowder that you'd find in the typical .38 Special, I find a case full of white powder. Under magnification it looks like Rice Crispies.
My first thought was one of the early "bulk" smokeless powders, black powder substitute. I did a little looking around on the internet and read about DuPont #2 Bulk, and found a photo on a forum, which I borrowed and attached (credit to w44wcf, whoever that is ) That sure looks a lot like what I found.
Anyhow, I thought it was an interesting thing to find laying on the ground, one dud and two empties that did fire. I wonder if whoever fired them realized that they were well over a hundred years old.