Pointless ammo ‘disposal’ thread

OK, bored as hell with bloody lockdown.

So....a long time ago I ‘fired’ some shotgun shells that I’d tipped the shot out of, hardly seemed to make a bang at all.

Moving along to today... was in the workshop and found some old shotgun shells I’d cut off just above the brass to recover the propellant (don’t ask!) and shot.
Said shotgun bases still had live primers and in a brainwave thought. ‘ hmm, I wonder what would happen if I fired my BB gun into the primer’? (so as to keep a distance away from my gorgeous face and eyes), I mean how loud can it be?

Placed one on a wad of old rags and fired a little old copper coloured BB into the primer.

Well crikey dick, what an ear splitting bang, sheesh like a big Ramset charge going off, expected AOS to turn out!

Don’t do this children!

Anybody else have similar brainwaves??

Made bolt bombs as kids with match heads, don't recall anyone ever getting hurt.

heap of primed cases...needed to remove primers....pre suppressor days so I put muzzle into my polarfleece coat to muffle noise and popped them off....yip lovely little burn marks on coat...those primers have A LOT of flame. Ive seen a primer squashed in vice on purpose...then vice tapped with hammer to set it off...they are loud alright.

Had a shit load of 22 ammo not sure what it is, golng to bin it as I get my stuff for free frp EVrrOP for pest work. Actually thatvhas since been stopped but not until they made sue I was set for life. If any body wants these they are welcomed to it. The old ammo that is.

I made a Dakota Firehole and disposed of 7.62x39 tracer and some.22 shotshells that had been hanging around forever.

Worked well as long as I didn't stand over the hole

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Used to drop a hammer onto naked shotgun primers when I was 10, only when mum.and dad weren't home of course. Put em on the concrete then stand on the step and drop it. Wouldn't do that now and I'd boot my kids up the arse if I caught them

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Originally Posted by Micky Duck

heap of primed cases...needed to remove primers....pre suppressor days so I put muzzle into my polarfleece coat to muffle noise and popped them off....yip lovely little burn marks on coat...those primers have A LOT of flame. Ive seen a primer squashed in vice on purpose...then vice tapped with hammer to set it off...they are loud alright.

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As a youngster threw a 6.5x55 primed but empty case into the stove...they're loud all right.

This Stupid Boy had just the opposite result when in my early days of re-enacting I decided to make my own blank 303.

TradeMe supplied the "hardware" and the local sporting / shooting store was approached and when I said I was reloading 303 blank, supplied Ar2208.

Yup, I know now but not then so the result was a mild pop from the primer followed by AR2208 being ejected out onto the ground.

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Whilst attending the South Eastern War Games we were in a NOG compound on November 25th.
A dirty old belt of m60 was delinked.pulled all the projectiles, tipped most of the powder out,pierced the tracer,stood the cases upright, sat the Tracer upside down in the cases, poured all the powder round cases with a trail.
Lit and stood back,powder burnt, Tracer lit off,primers popped,Tracer took off fizzing and tumbling,height depending on how much powder was left in the cases.

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Originally Posted by Gapped axe

Had a shit load of 22 ammo not sure what it is, golng to bin it as I get my stuff for free frp EVrrOP for pest work. Actually thatvhas since been stopped but not until they made sue I was set for life. If any body wants these they are welcomed to it. The old ammo that is.

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@Gapped axe ill have it just dont know how to get it down here

No hurry its got your name on it

What happened?

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In a previous life - well , in the 1970's - had some shotgun ammo that the had got damp and the paper cases swelled and wouldnt fit in the chamber.

Cut the crimp off and saved the shot , dumped the powder , then sat the shells up on fence posts and shot the primers with the .22......

Probably would be a bit more cautious doing it now , but seemed like a good idea back then...

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Yep done that one - never knew where the bits would go but it kept you on your toes....

I pulled some 22 tracer apart once to see what made it tick. Collected up all that silvery stuff into an ashtray and then put a lighter to it.
Nothing happened for about 10 seconds then. ........ WHOOSH!

When i was a kid i used to pick up a hinged sess pit lid line up shot gun primers along the front lip of the steal frame and then drop the lid, made a hell of a noise.

soldered a couple of drawing pins onto the swing arm of a mouse trap and glued 2 shotgun primers on the base board..................mice stink when exploded

was also a good trap for people putting junk mail in the letterbox after repeated requests not to

Years ago myself and a workmate tried to set of some gelignite with dets using a 357 lever action. The safety fuse type not electric.
Dismal failure. Couldn't do it too close for obvious reasons, we still had some grazes across the det but it never went off. He had done quite a bit of explosive work and was very surprised it didn't go bang.

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Years ago myself and a workmate tried to set of some gelignite with dets using a 357 lever action. The safety fuse type not electric.
Dismal failure. Couldn't do it too close for obvious reasons, we still had some grazes across the det but it never went off. He had done quite a bit of explosive work and was very surprised it didn't go bang.

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That’s surprising - it always works in the movies!

Used to shoot arrows straight up in the air out of sight and see who could stay their ground...I was a dumb shit at times..it so were the mates who played as well....

When I was a boy cant remember age might of been 7 or 8 I used to hit those round 8 cap gun caps with the hammer I ran out pretty quick doing that so got a shotgun primer from the cupboard put it on the concrete and hit it let’s just say I shat myself and left a hole in the concrete and never did that again ��

When about 10 years old my mate tipped a heap of gun powder out of crackers and mixed those little lead split shot sinkers in it to make a bomb which was about the size of a jam jar, the mix exploded when he lit a smoke...he is now 72 years old and still carries a couple of the shot that could not be removed, they show up in Xrays along with the .22 bullet in his shoulder blade...but that's another story.

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When about 10 years old my mate tipped a heap of gun powder out of crackers and mixed those little lead split shot sinkers in it to make a bomb which was about the size of a jam jar, the mix exploded when he lit a smoke...he is now 72 years old and still carries a couple of the shot that could not be removed, they show up in Xrays along with the .22 bullet in his shoulder blade...but that's another story.

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So he has carried that lead around for 62 years, and Fish and Game try to tell me that metallic lead (as opposed to inorganic lead) is toxic.:ORLY:

A mate of mine at school tried to dig the primer out of a 12g shell with his ball point pen in the middle of class.....needless to say it wen off with a fucking massive bang !!!!
he was less than popular :O_O: not his finest hour

I was a Chemistry lab tech at secondary school we made a batch of nitrogen tri iodide one lunchtime which dried out and detonated during the first period of the afternoon broke some glassware blew a small hole in the bench and filled the prep room with purple iodine vapour.
Got into a bit of trouble over that.

As kids (many many years ago) we would find the odd 22 rimfire cartridge laying around the farm shed, they would be placed on the train track, we would walk miles to do this without a second thought.

Another ‘fun’ thing for schoolboys: cut (or scrape off) the head of a few live matches into empty 22 shells, crimp and bend over the top of the shell - then hit it with a hammer, nice satisfying bang!

Don’t try it with a 303 shell full of match heads and hit it with the back of an axe, it won’t end well, believe me...

Back in the days of coal mining in my home town, They used carbide lanterns on their hard hats.
Little container drips water onto the carbide. A tap regulates the water drip and therefore the gas (acetylene). I did see a spotlight rig (possums) where a car headlight reflector was fitted to one. No batteries.
Anyhoo some kids, and possibly the odd adult would make carbide bombs. Get a jar, throw some carbide and water in there. Screw the lid on and throw it.
Never tried it myself to get the finer recipes properly sorted as it was getting a bit rare when I was growing up but supposedly it was used for fishing sometimes.