I was shocked! I could of got hurt here!

[chukers]

I was out at a soccer field trying to find gold rings... I know there is other but new coins here but I got a shocker today... the ground here is very hard and I have to dig very hard every time I take a scoop... well I plunges my digger into the hard Texas ground and out pops this unfired bullet! I had to stop and think about what just happened what could of happened... kinda of scared be a bit... just a bit then I was off hunting again!

Anyone else have this experience?

This was found at an elementary school which is used for all kinds of other kid events... that in itself is scary too.

Chukers

 

[jeff of pa]

I think some are from kids who hunted
before & After school.
& maybe even Show & Tell.
back when Paranoia didn't rule.

 

[DigginThePast]

The ones that scare me the most are those little .22 rim fires, it would be pretty easy to stick your digger in the ground a set one of those off opposed to a center fire round.

HH Charlie

Agreed. The centerfire cartridges aren't very likely to get a good enough hit from a digger to the primer to actually fire off but a rimfire could. Either way though, without having the cartridge contained as it is in the breech of a gun it is highly unlikely that it would go off with any significant velocity. Rather, it would kind of "pop" apart with the bullet going in one direction and the case in the other, neither would be to dangerous.

 

[chukers]

Those small ones are not very dangerous. Needs a good hit on the right place to blow them up. You should be more careful if You dig some of this...

neat pics!

but I would leave those right where I found them!

 

[colorado14ers]

ive found a fired 30.06 shell in a downtown public park! Ive also found somthing that was disturbing, a fired 9mm shell infront of my house!!! what were the people doing here!?!

 

[Stray Cat]

Wow, I am new to this hobby and really glad I read this. Never thought about live rounds while trying to break up this Texas soil.

 

[Skelly607]

Those small ones are not very dangerous. Needs a good hit on the right place to blow them up. You should be more careful if You dig some of this...

WOW! Ok,,,,that's the highest on my kewl beans scale so far!!!!! Id go banner on those,,,,,but I don't think to many other people would join me.

Most rounds are not dangerous at all. "If" a round was to go off outside of a barrel the brass casing (its lighter)would be more of a factor than the actual bullet. There is no containment of the expelled gases. In most cases bullets and fired brass casings showing up in school yards and front lawns come from children. Ive found more than a couple spent casings,projectiles and bullets in my city.

 

[chukers]

After reading all your posts I have come to a conclusion... All this live ammunition is showing up in odd places... yards, schools, churches.... all for one reason.... KIDS... they get a hold of this ammo form their father/mother and take to to show their friends... and then promptly lose it. \
I think that would explain most live round... IMO


Chukers

 

[Tuberale]

I think some are from kids who hunted
before & After school.
& maybe even Show & Tell.
back when Paranoia didn't rule.

My dad was one of those.

He grew up about a mile from where Judge Denny released some of the first Chinese pheasants into the United States. Denny was the first US Ambassador to China, btw.

First 2 flocks died quickly. The 3rd received a little more care. The rest, as they say, is history.

Dad used to take a shotgun with him to and from grade school during the Depression. Shooting pheasants was a money-generating business at the time. Got him some spending money at a time spending money was kind of scarce.

Of course, nowdays he'd just be packed off to Gitmo as a terrorist. Even though he helped liberate the Moosburg, Germany concentration camp.

Some of us remember.