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I do the recycling for a large range and come up with a lot of discarded live rounds. I have been collecting these for years now and am keeping only the ones that have no visible damage and no strike of any kind on the base. The youth section of the club uses only new ammo for liability reasons so I am wondering if there are folks out there that would be willing to buy some of this stuff. Needless to say it would be relatively inexpensive. I have close to a brick of it now. Yes I should probably just post it on the EE but I was looking more for feedback not cash at the moment. Your thoughts??
 
Any range pickup rimfire ammo I find is automatically suspect.

Without knowing if it got rained on, was tampered with, whatever, it has zero value, and I won't shoot it.

Usually I just pop the slug off the case with a pair of pliers (doesn't everyone carry a Leatherman or similar?) and dump the powder out, if it is dry enough to dump out. Then it goes into the brass pile.

You might find someone dumb enough to buy a mixed lot of random .22 ammo, but really, why would you bother?

Cheers
Trev
 
Only reason I dont shoot it myself is I have over a case of CCI Minimags. I figured someone that has kids that just want to plink and are not worried about accuracy or consistant results could benefit. Plus any monies that came out of it would go to the club Youth Program. Anything wrong with that?
 
Range find live rounds? I'd only expect about half to actually work, and certainly wouldn't pay for them. As stated, they could have been rained on, left in the mud, tampered with (admittedly unlikely, this one, but still possible).
 
Well this is why I am posting this here. All valid points but again with some cheap stuff you will get FTFs and sometimes a lot so might not be that much of a difference depending. All things to keep in mind. Guess I will just have to wait till I have space available and post it to see what happens. Thanks for the input.
 
.22 LR bullets being heeled bullets, they are lubed on the outside.

So range pickup .22 ammo from the range floor has probably picked up grit/sand/dirt as well. Shooting such ammo will most probably damage any barrel bore.

I wouldn't shoot .22 ammo that has dropped on the floor or dirt.
 
Since the generic average 22LR is about 20 bucks for 500 pieces, I would pay a toonie to 5 bucks MAX for 500 random unknown 22LR (half might not even work). So really its not worth much, just shoot it yourself and save the headache of the guy coming back to you saying the lot was crap
 
i have a "beater" gun that i use that for- it's hammer fired, and a lot of the striker fired guns of today won't fire a stale priming mix - that's the reason you see so much of the stuff at the range- that,and it also seems to acquire a "dead" spot in the primer- rotating it so the pin hits a different spot on the case will usually fire the round- if there isn't a sign of a firing pin strike, i'd be inclined to suspect the gun - weak spring or something
 
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