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After I got done shooting at Wolf Creek on Monday, I did the usual policing my brass as well as any other I could pick up. One thing I noticed which was a little surprising (although to most it may not be) is how much live ammunition is on the ground. A lot of it was .22lr but some of it was rifle rounds as well. I picked it up with the rest although I don't know what to do with it. People say they just throw it in the trash, but that doesn't seem like the best place to put it... kind of like what do you do with all the batteries you go through if you don't have an easy recycling point for them?
Some were so pitted from being in the mud that I could tell it was steel Tulammo and it looked like 7.62 but didn't spend a lot of time cleaning it. The copper bullet was nice and shinny though. Most of the .22lr I picked up looked good enough to shoot, so I'll probably just fire it to use it the next time I have a .22 with me.
So what are some of the options for found live ammunition? I do not have any equipment that will let me extract the bullet, so that isn't an option even if I was inclined to buy a bullet hammer and wack it silly on the concrete like I see on videos... that just seems so, um, how lucky do you feel kinda for some reason.
Mike
Some were so pitted from being in the mud that I could tell it was steel Tulammo and it looked like 7.62 but didn't spend a lot of time cleaning it. The copper bullet was nice and shinny though. Most of the .22lr I picked up looked good enough to shoot, so I'll probably just fire it to use it the next time I have a .22 with me.
So what are some of the options for found live ammunition? I do not have any equipment that will let me extract the bullet, so that isn't an option even if I was inclined to buy a bullet hammer and wack it silly on the concrete like I see on videos... that just seems so, um, how lucky do you feel kinda for some reason.
Mike