Rusty ammo

[Richard Flanders]

I've given a lot of rusty old paper ammo a try. I do clean the corrosion off and am careful to check the bores after shooting. I've had a few paper hulls separate entirely and go out, leaving the base in the chamber and have had a lot of base brass split longitudinally and even all the way around the extractor rim fold, but it's amazing what will still go boom and kill birds.

[VH20]

Originally Posted by Richard Flanders

I've given a lot of rusty old paper ammo a try. I do clean the corrosion off and am careful to check the bores after shooting. I've had a few paper hulls separate entirely and go out, leaving the base in the chamber and have had a lot of base brass split longitudinally and even all the way around the extractor rim fold, but it's amazing what will still go boom and kill birds.

Federal paper hulls have a tendency to split around the rim like that even when new. I bought a bunch of once-fired Fed. paper hulls from BPI or Precision that looked like they were in pristine condition - except when inspected closely about 20% were split exactly like that. I sent them back and they replaced them with good ones.

Jim