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Water proof ammo jhp?
- Thread starter Super-Dave
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Suppose you fell out of your fishing boat and swam to shore. Would most pistol ammo be good to go?
Super-Dave,
Here is a test for you to perform. Get a bottle of water, some ammo and a plastic bowl. Go to the range. Pour the water in the plastic bowl now drop a handful of ammo in the water in the bowl. Let it sit their some. After 10 minutes in the drink pull a few rounds out and shoot them. How do they work?
Now wait 20 minutes and take a few more out. Shoot them. How do they work?
Now take out a magazine (Modern Bride, Woodworking Today or such) and sit down and read some. Let the rounds soak. (Ignore those people around you at the range wondering why a man is at the range sitting on the floor reading Highlights Magazine with his bullets in a bowl of water, you are involved in the higher calling of science and they are irrelevant.) In an hour or two shoot off a few more. Do they work?
You can mix it up some, try soaking the bullets in some chicken noodle soup, motor oil (if you live by the Gulf you could fall outa boat and into that, it's possible), etc. I'd avoid any liquid likely to burst aflame you do want to avoid any Super Dave Osborne problems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuSUq6IZqFc&feature=related
At any rate try a few experiments to find the answers you are looking for.
Simple thing though, if you are really worried about this would be a plastic bag as has been suggested.
I am making fun, but not of you. )
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In some places it rains alot and can be heavy. What companies pistol ammo can stand up to some serious rain and water now and then?
Every company that I know of.
The military seals and crimps and takes a lot of extra steps, because that is what they do. They don't allow for failures
Should not we as well?
The point to that was that military ammunition is not subjected to a trip from the manufacturer by truck to walmart, then home in the family car.
Military ammo may be stored in temps that go from 140 to -40 degrees. it may be air dropped into a swamp or a lake. it may lay baking in the sun in boxes for years, stuck into damp bunkers, left in jungles, and treated in ways that an ordinary civilian wouldn't even treat his own feces. The military expects that ammunition to survive and be usable after all that, so every possible precaution is taken.
Civilians couldn't even replicate some of the things that the military does to test their ammunition.
Just the fact that they do it doesn't mean that it is necessary, even for them. The tightly compressed brass is seal enough to prevent moisture from entering a shell under nearly any circumstances.
Personally I would worry much more about ammo coming into contact with WD 40 (or any kind of oil) than water. I have actually seen cases where LEO's sidearms would not fire rounds that had been carried for long periods in guns that were constantly oiled with the ammo in the gun. Keep your breechface dry kids.
yes. That is right. People who spray on loaded weapons and allow that stuff to get on case heads run that risk. I'm not sure what the difference is, but by capillary action, some oils are able to follow voids and gaps in metal seals that nothing else can follow.
I've read that it is a very seriously overstated problem, though.
I've read that it is a very seriously overstated problem, though.