Failed to Fire Ammunition

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I have a question....I acquired some surplus ammunition that I'm going to try to use at the rage. What is the proper procedure of hadling failed to fire rounds? Let say I load the round pull the trigger firind pin strikes the primer and nothing. I wait 60 seconds rechamber the round and try again. On the second try nothing happends again. So now again I wait 60 seconds still nothing. What do I do not I have a live round that had the primer struck twice and it failed to fire. How do I properly dispose of such round?

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Paul
 
pull the bullet and retrieve the powder for later use if you reload. I assume you're useing surplus ammo. Some of the old Brirish stuff still has cordite strings, if this is what you have, just pull the bullets and throw into a bucket of water, as the cordite seems to last forever and it's normally just the old mercuric primers that have deteriorated. The cordite wont explode but it sure burns like crazy when exposed. If you don't reload, just throw them away. bearhunter
 
My club is installing "Disposal Boxes" for misfired ammunition. There always seems to be dozens of misfired rimfire rds around. When you get enough you could contact the local police EOD team to pick it up and dispose of it for you. In my clubs case I'll dispose of it at work, I'm an Explosive Technician by trade. I'm against using recovered propellant as for factory ammo or surplus ammo you have absolutely no idea what type of propellent it is. Mixing propellents is asking for something to go wrong.
 
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Thanks for the info. Now how do I take the bullet out? Is there any danger the the round might fire at some later point? If I only have a couple of FTF rounds where do I dispose them? Garbage? Field? Etc

Thanks

Paul
 
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You can use a kinetic puller these are about $25.00 at most gun stores.
Unless it was an exotic, expensive, hard to find caliber like (.455 Webley) I would just dispose of it at the range (in the appropriate place) or soak it in oil to make sure it's inert and garbage it.
 
Don't!!!

bearhunter said:
pull the bullet and retrieve the powder for later use if you reload. I assume you're useing surplus ammo. Some of the old Brirish stuff still has cordite strings, if this is what you have, just pull the bullets and throw into a bucket of water, as the cordite seems to last forever and it's normally just the old mercuric primers that have deteriorated. The cordite wont explode but it sure burns like crazy when exposed. If you don't reload, just throw them away. bearhunter
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DON'T you ever try to pull that bullet with an impact puller!:eek:
The balance between the anvil and the primer mix has been upset and you'll never know if that supplemental whack won't set it off!
Just chuck the round in the "Duds" safety pail or simply throw it in the garbage can at the range. No use to try to salvage anything and get wounded by brass shrapnel.
Check if your firing pin isn't gummed and frozen.
Good shooting!
PP.:)
 
No!!!

DON't, repeat, DON'T :eek: pull that bullet with a kinetic puller! Its primer has been punched once.
Now, can you explain to me why you absolutely want to pull that bullet? :confused: Just throw it in the garbage and don't risk an injury for a 0.15$ bit of metal.
PP.
 
If you put it in the garbage at the range, you may injure the guy who dumps the target waste into the club burn barrel.
Safer just to pick a direction and throw if you can't be bothered to take it home.
 
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