I got ripped off at a Gunshow and I don't know what to do with this Crap!

Ok well I tumled 3rds each for about an hr. Things did improve and I think I may be able to salvage about 40% of them. Oh well I did learn my lesson. I'm only buying that Hirtenburger stuff in "Sealed Battle Packs" from now on.
 
The Chilean .308 is not good to use in rifles. I have two friends who have fired up a lot of it. One blew the baseplate out of a FAL mag and expanded. The FAL is a strong design and was not damaged. The other guy shoots it in his 1919A4. It has blown the top cover open and spat fragments of brass into his leg. The 1919 is so robust that it is hard to damage it.

Bad stuff. Pulling the bullets may be the best plan.

TT
 
Since smokeless powder is chemically a plastic with a large overabundance of nitrate units, pouring the powder into a bucket of water will only prevent it from lighting up while it's wet.

If you pull it down, I vote for either fertilizing your favorite plant friends, or just lighting up the pile outdoors. Be sure it never gets into mischievious hands (like mine when I was a kid).

In all seriousness, I would be quite surprised if you were looking at anything other than cosmetic blemishes. Even true surface corrosion would have to remove a layer of brass almost as thick as a business card to really cause problems (assuming fairly normal starting thicknesses of brass).
 
M16,calling the seller a jerk implies you think he knowingly sold Soda Pop defective ammo.As I said in my post when I got some milsurp that I had problems with I took it to the next show and the seller refunded my money,no questions asked and without hesitation.He didn`t even charge me for the box I shot.It`s been my experience that most vendors at shows are honest business people and want to satisfy their customers.I just think you should give the vendor a chance to make good before resorting to name calling.
 
Maybe I jumped too fast by calling the dealer a jerk but why can't they check their merchandise before they sell it. I don't sell people damaged goods in my business because I take the time to inspect my products. In my opinion so should the people who sell surplus ammo.
 
I totally agree with you M16 and I hear what your saying fmjcafe. I did check a few boxes of ammo but not the ones in the bag. I have never seen these guys at any of the local gunshows and they had a small table. I didn't see any of the Austrian ammo and I only had $100 on me. My gun was shipped from DSA yesterday and I should be getting it by this weekend and I didn't want to wait 2 weeks for ammo to get here.
Its my fault for not checking more of the ammo in the bag but I honestly wonder why it was already bagged and sitting on the floor. The ammo they had on the table looked Ok but this stuff had atleast 2 rounds in each box that had black/orange/yellow on them. If a vendor knows his ammo isn't in good condition he shouldn't be selling it. I've seen boxes of Ammo at gunshows that looked like they were left out in the rain and they shouldn't be sold at all!!!
 
Sealed ammo packs are the problem. There is no way to check if the seal is intact like US/NATO ammo cans.

I don't know how Chile packs theirs but some of the Eastern Europe stuff acked like a canned ham is waiting to corrode.

I'll take mine in the cardboard packs any day. If the cardboard is water damaged, the ammo is suspect.
 
I got screwed with Chilean surplus ammo too. Flew somewhere for a rifle course and that was all I could get in time - several hundred rounds of it. Made around '74. It fed ok in a bolt action, but 1 in 5 had hard primers - quickly learned how to deal with bad rounds.
 
KeithJ I would figure that it would be the opposite. My stuff was in Boxes that had tape over them. They looked old but not water damaged. I would think if the ammo was sitting in a sealed battle pack it should be 100% ok why wouldn't it?
 
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