Live Ammo - How to get rid of

[waseeker]

Hi Everyone.

Well among todays treasures was a .32 CAL S&W bullet. It is still intact. Don't really want to keep it around the house and don't want to just put it in the household trash. Will the local PD take it off my hands?

Thanks

 

[Nonsequitur]

To answer the topic, if it's in the woods, dig a little deeper and cover it up. If one is found in a school yard, and you don't want to leave it where little hands could find it, place it in a glass jar,(baby food is a good one) and cover with WD-40 or a similar penetrating oil. Leave it in for about two-three days. This SHOULD deactivate the primer (but still be careful). Then bury it about a foot deep where you won't be digging or gardening, etc. Between the oil and the moisture in the ground, there will be no problem. You can do this with as many bullets as you need to. DON'T, as one poster suggested, DON'T PUT IN A VISE!! One wrong tweak to the primer and you have just given the case a solid rest that would more than likely rupture the case if it went off, injuring (or worse) anyone around at the time.

 

[Monty]

Bury it in you coin garden and it will make a good practice target. It's not dangerous. Know what the cops do with them? Throw them in the trash! Monty

 

[Nick in NEPA]

I had a little more to say...........

When some people that don’t know much about firearms read a post like this, they just take it as being true. That a bullet alone is dangerous, and that’s not the case. As long as you don’t load it into a firearm or try to hit the primer with a nail of something they aren’t dangerous.

Topics like this give the anti firearms advocates more ammunition to use in their quest to outlaw firearms and or ammunition, most likely unbeknownst to you. Hey, they couldn’t get far with outlawing firearms so they tried to outlaw ammunition saying it wasn’t covered under the 2nd amendment.

I want to apologize to everyone for going off topic, but I couldn’t let this go. I won’t respond this thread anymore in order to keep the peace.

Happy Hunting

Amen to everything Ant said. The Second amendment IS America's original Homeland Security.

 

[Mac the Knife]

First post from the new guy, here... How y'all durrin'?... Okay, I would just chuck the thing in the river, creek, lake.... Yes, the round may still be "live", but there is no need to find out... Send it back to an unknown grave fer someone else to find and marvel at....

I'll be trying to make heads or tails out of everything I end up reading here... I got a detector last year from the admiral and haven't used it much... A friend up in Md got one for Christmas and we're talking about them and I'm getting the bug to go out....

She got me a Bounty Hunter QDII... What I read about them ain't too good... I hope this thing doesn't frustrate me to no end....

I went by the local Lowe's, yesterday, and bought a couple trowels for digging... They're made by a company caled OXO... They're heavy stainless, have measure lines on them, for depth, and one has a serrated edge, for cutting through roots... They were about 10 bucs per, and what I've seen on detector sites, that a pretty good price...

Well, I will discontinue this end around highjack... Hope to talk to y'all much more...

Happy New Year!!!

 

[dugupfinds]

I find quite a few live rounds in the UK including WWII Spitfire cannon rounds (large beasties). They end up in the river.

If I did as I should, cordon of the site, go home, ring the bomb disposals, which take at least 2 hours to get here, fill out a report etc... Then the time, money, effort & ill feeling from the officals would make it not worth detecting anymore.

 

[MadMorgan]

Found a couple of 30-06 live un's yesterday. Tossed em in the crook of a big oak tree. It's just absorb them slowly

Next, regarding this below. I went out and bought like 8 trowels the day after I got my first detector. Of them all, the OXO is the only one that has survived. The one with two serrated edges was 8.99 at Lowes and is far superior to the Gator my wife accidently bought me for Christmas. I returned that one, because the OXO flat out rocks. I lean hard on it and it's doesn't complain at all.
The defacto standard in a hand trowel in my mind. (mid you, I'm at this for two months now, lol)

I went by the local Lowe's, yesterday, and bought a couple trowels for digging... They're made by a company caled OXO... They're heavy stainless, have measure lines on them, for depth, and one has a serrated edge, for cutting through roots... They were about 10 bucs per, and what I've seen on detector sites, that a pretty good price...