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mutt
06-22-2009, 09:30
I was shooting my AK this weekend and had two dud rounds. Is there any chance they would accidentally go off or are they pretty much inert now? For now I just pushed them in the dirt bullet facing down. What's the proper way to dispose of these?
Great-Kazoo
06-22-2009, 17:11
if its brass i pull bullet, dump powder and reuse after yanking the primer.
If non-reloadable i have a container with oil i dump them into.
GunTroll
06-22-2009, 20:35
Cordon off the area and call EOD. If anything bad happens to you or your battles call up a 9 line. Good luck.
VDW
06-22-2009, 21:40
2 duds? What kind of ammo are you shooting? What kind of AK?

If I had to guess, they were probably just light primer strikes.
mutt
06-22-2009, 22:24
These are steel cased wolf, so no reloading. So I'm guessing there really isn't a disposal issue then. Good. I'll just leave em pushed in the dirt. This is the 1st time I've had center fire rounds fail, so I wasn't really sure what to do with em. The AK is a relatively new Lancaster Arms. I'd suspect it's the Wolf brand ammo. It's cheap but not the best. It doesn't look like light primer strikes, there's a deep dimple in the primer of each failed round, but then again I didn't try to fire em again, I just ejected and moved on. 2 out of 240 rounds is ok I'd guess for cheap stuff.
Great-Kazoo
06-23-2009, 20:00
the only issue i have with Wolf is the obscene selling price. Other than thatis works fine in the guns i have wolf for, i would have fired again
VDW
06-24-2009, 03:48
I don't recall ever having a failure to fire with Wolf 7.62. I can't say anything bad about Lancasters either. They are great guns. It sounds like maybe a bad batch of ammo.
Delfuego
06-24-2009, 09:47
Throw em in the campfire!

[Peep]

Pedro
LariatBob
07-03-2009, 20:18
Are we talking "pushed in the dirt" in a public shooting area?
I wouldn't leave them there. Retrieve, use a bullet puller. If you don't reload, find someone who can pull them. If not reloading, flush the powder, fill the cases with water and toss them. Or drop them at a firestation for proper disposal. Even though they are currently inert, I'm sure you wouldn't want to read in the paper where someone was injured when a round someone left in the ground went off............