What to do with rounds that fail to fire?

[Koinonia]

How so? I pull bullets from live rounds and have for years. The kenetic bullet puller I have is set up to do that. I thought they all were. Nothing touches the primer. 'Splain please>

I guess it could go off if you hit the puller head on the concrete .............. primer first!

I had one with a 40sw that the primer had been dented by the firing pin, twice. Went home and put it in the hammer, and third snack, the powder ignited. It didnt do much, but it still went off. Im guessing the anvil was loose, and/ didnt hit priming conpound when in the gun.

 

[Younggun]

Soooo, it pulled the bullet still, right?


Lol

 

[Charlie]

Hmmmm. Glad it didn't do much. If anything, I'd guess the anvil would pull away rather than compress ................... but anything can happen. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Koinonia]

Soooo, it pulled the bullet still, right?


Lol

I suppose you could still say that, but the burned powder and cracked hammer kind of put me off of the pulling duds, unless using pliers.

 

[Koinonia]

Soooo, it pulled the bullet still, right?


Lol

I suppose you could still say that, but the burned powder and cracked hammer kind of put me off of the pulling duds, unless using pliers.

 

[Charlie]

I suppose you could still say that, but the burned powder and cracked hammer kind of put me off of the pulling duds, unless using pliers.

Then I'm screwed! I'm scared of pliers! I do have a press mounted puller that I use on rifle bullets but it won't grab a fat .45 or even a 9mm; not enough sticking out of the case.

 

[rsayloriii]

Just hit it again, and fix your light strike problem

This, generally. Every once in a while I'll get a round that will take a second strike to set it off. Could be the primer wasn't fully seated, and the first strike seated it. Also it could be a thicker primer cup.

That's with new ammo. If it's older surplus, sometimes they just don't go bang period, or they'll hang fire (click ... boom) <---- that's why you don't automatically open the breach.

 

[Leper]

Put them in a cup of water for a few days and throw them away. The few light prime strikes I have had went off on the second try. If they didn't I would just toss them out on the range. You shouldn't throw away live rounds in the trash.

 

[rsayloriii]

Anything is possible, but I've never had any go off out of the many bullets that I've pulled for various reasons with a kinetic puller (duds, OAL too short, old surplus, etc).

 

[General Zod]

Pull the bullet with pliers, dump the powder, drop a match in the dumped powder, grin like a ten year old pyro at the puff of smoke.

 

[txinvestigator]

Just hit it again, and fix your light strike problem

I always try at least two more hits before I discard it.

 

[Vaquero]

I always try at least two more hits before I discard it.

Yep.

 

[rsayloriii]

Pull the bullet with pliers, dump the powder, drop a match in the dumped powder, grin like a ten year old pyro at the puff of smoke.

I've never seen a "puff of smoke" from smokeless powder, and I've burned plenty of it. It burns more like a sparkler. But I do agree with your "grin like a 10 yr old pyro".

 

[Moonpie]

I pull the dud apart with a kinetic bullet puller.
Pop out the bad primer.
Re-prime with a fresh primer and reload the powder and bullet.
If its a rimfire I just keep rotating the cartridge in the chamber until it goes off.

 

[benenglish]

If its a rimfire I just keep rotating the cartridge in the chamber until it goes off.

That doesn't always work.

 

[Moonpie]

True.

When that happens the bullet get pried off the case.
Bullet goes into the lead collection bucket for later re-melt into other bullets.
The brass gets mashed and put in the scrap brass bucket for later taking to scrap yard for $$$$.

 

[shortround]

I toss all my defective ammo in a pit and cover it up with dirt.

Five thousand years from now, some post modern archeologist will dig it up and wonder why we had such crude weapons and ammo.

 

[franzas]

Last thing I'd do to a LIVE round is drill a hole in it...

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[Shotgun Jeremy]

Damn...I always just throw my duds in the trash. Then again, they're always .22. I've never had an issue with centerfire rounds.

 

[Byrd666]

For many years, most of my "dud" ammo ended up in a cigar box in my home office. When I moved, I just left the box in the oven for the landlord. UNlit oven. But I have no doubt he had to change after seeing what was in the box. He was an anti gun, turd liberal anyhow. Lately, I've been leaving them out in the range yard area, in the dud box, or just tossing 'em in the trash.