Ammo in the clothes dryer?

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My wife called me down to the laundry room this morning to wave an empty brass casing in my face, asking me if I was trying to blow up the house. It was in my pants pocket after hunting yesterday. After telling her it was an empty case and no danger, it made me think, what would happen if a live round did take a trip through the dryer? Would there be enough heat to generate a cook off? Anyone know?
 
Daver_II said:
Many rounds in my dryer. My wife gets annoyed but it is perfectly fine.
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This is FUNNY - at the IPSC Worlds in Florida a few years ago, if you went into the Laundromat at the Ranch every Dryer had the sound of rounds being dried! My Wife was quick to point out that familiar sound out!

:)
 
Was cleaning up my father's very messy house with a few .22 cartridges in amongst the debris, all of which I threw into a burn barrel.
Surprised me how long it took for those cartridges to finally cook off. They must have to get way hotter than any dryer could take them.
 
Back in the day we lived in PMQs, I guess the infantry types didnt always empty their pockets, since live ammo and blanks would come out of the communal dryers, mind you that meant they had gone through the washers too. A dryer in no way should heat up enough to cook off a round.
 
It's fairly common for me, wife doesn't care. She is smart enough to know there is no danger. On a related note I saved up some of the various stuff that had gone through the dryer and put them over a chronograph. There was no difference pre/post laundering. Not that I expected otherwise...
 
I just finished washing my hunting clothes. A .308 Hornady American Whitetail round was found in the dryer. Luckily Mrs Arclight was having a nap. If a tree falls in the woods..... :)
 
You could toss a round in a wood stove won't do much just a big bang and the bullet will go no place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApUb7WFWLYU



[h=3]Bullets can explode with lethal force if they are stored inside a hot oven.[/h] busted
The MythBusters placed a .22 caliber, .44 caliber, and .50 caliber bullet inside an oven. All of the bullets exploded once the oven was hot enough, but none of them were able to penetrate the oven. Without a gun barrel to contain and direct the propellant gases, the bullets did not develop enough speed to pierce the glass or steel portions of the oven. The shell casings actually caused more damage than the bullets.
 
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