[Ky Colonel]

We are talking about 22 rimfires here .

For 22's I just toss them in the trash.

For centerfires I wait a full minute before taking it out of my rifle then later I pull the bullet and save everything.

Don't worry about duds too much. The only real time to worry about a dud is when it's inside the gun. Outside a gun all that will happen is it goes bang but the bullet is not going much of anywhere with any speed at all. It's the gun chamber and gun barrel that makes a bullet deadly. It keeps the burning inside the shell and pushes the bullet down the barrel at speed. In the open it all goes bang and the biggest danger is part of the exploing shell could put your eye out. The shell itself will bust open and 75% of the time the bullet will still be graped by part of the shell.

A fire marshall once told me that in a house fire one of the most dangous things is a LOADED GUN. As those rounds cook off it could send one down the barrel of a gun hitting a fireman. Ammo itself in carbod boxes will cook off but not much danger if they are not close to them and/or have a wall between them and the ammo.

 

[Ky Colonel]

Another thread on RFC that "talks" about a guy that dropped a weight from a barbell or something like that on a cartridge and shot himself. News article on that also. Might want to consider your when to worry beliefs.

noremf(George)

"Shot himself"

What part of the "cartridge" hit him?? Was it the bullet or part of the brass shell??

The "weakest" part of a ammo cartridge is the brass shell. That will be the first to go after the primer, it will bust open.

Look at the Arams M1 Tank, the "weakest" part of it is the over head doors of the ammo compent. If the ammo was to get hit the doors are designed to bust UPWARD and open to keep the explosion from blowing into the crew quarters.

The only way I can see a barbell sending a bullet into a person is the weight of the barbell kept the explosion in a "closed" area under the weight, the explosion would have to go somewhere and it would have only one place to go, the open space which could be toward the person.

 

[Ky Colonel]

Here is the article.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...shoots-shoulder-dropping-dumbbell-bullet.html

Before you get all bent out of shape with me, I am not saying I believe it but somebody does and nobody cares enough to investigate it any more.

Did not do a search on RFC on this so I could reference the posts for you. More time than I want to spend on it but they are here somewhere.

My point is you need to worry with things that can go bang under non controlled conditions. Personally an Aerosol can thrown into a fire scares me more but I don't walk on duds that eject on my concrete shed floor when I shoot from inside either. I clean em up and dispose of em as per my previous post.

noremf(George)

I'm not getting all bend out of shape on you or anybody else.

I clean mine up too but I don't really worry about it.

About the story.

All the police had to do was take a look at the bullet the doctors removed from the guy. If it had the markings of lands and groves then it was fired from a gun. If it didn't have any markings then it could have happened the way the guy said.