Thread: Disposing of old ammunition

Originally Posted by Ingrid 51

It used to be dumped in cook strait or out beyond great barrier I think. In the 60’s, I was in our college’s Bren gun team. Four of us we given 10,000 rounds of three oh ammo to dispose of….on a 25 yard range up Pyes Pa, Tauranga way. Pongas got chopped up, barrels got too hot to touch, big holes were created in the bank and I’ve been deaf ever since!

When CAC closed in the 1980's huge amount was dumped in the Hauraki Gulf, think it was by the old "gut boat" that dumped the offal from fishing industry. Had a mate who worked there, said it was mind-boggling what was dumped. Lot of the ammo was Norma, Remington etc. they used it to do velocity tests against their CAC ammo. Said they never did it by half measures, would buy 500 rounds and test 10.