Why discard good ammo

I'd be more concerned that I had someone's special load made for a much stronger barrel than I have.

On the extreme end, how do you know it's not some psycho's intentionally hot, triple loaded round hoping to cause an accident.
 
I've seen enough handload screw-ups that I'm not shooting an unknown.

When you clear the gun, a round will just disappear at times. We try to watch for the round for the shooter.
 
Well FrankenMauser I guess there is many ways to reload an to each their own. To me I am not hard up enough for the casings and I have better things to do with my time. let alone getting rid of someone else's powder. The main thing to reloading is to be safe.
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Bullets = more bullets, or scrap for the metal recycler = easy money.
My time = what ever I want to do.
Your time = what ever you want to do.
Powder = fire.
Not firing found live rounds = safe.
Brass = free brass for me, brass I can sell, or scrap I can recycle = easy money.


Three feet to my left, there's a 35 lb box of cleaned, sorted range brass. Many people are "too good" to stoop to the level of a brass scrounger, but I am not.

I picked the brass up a little at a time, here and there, as I had the opportunity. Probably 2-3% was picked up as live rounds.
That 35 lbs of brass represents about $200-250 that I don't have to pay to be able to load ammunition for my firearms, plus about $150 worth of trade value in brass for cartridges that I don't load. There's also enough .40 S&W brass to represent a savings of about $155 on .44 caliber bullets (I make them from .40 S&W cases for 3¢ apiece). And, on the other side of me, there's 20 lbs of brass scrap for the recycler (once the market comes back up).

From my point of view, I'm getting paid to pick up not only brass, but the live rounds that people leave behind. (Bullets, too. But that's another subject... ;))
 
I just find it easier to pick up the brass at my club then go through the trouble of breaking them down. I have a boat load of brass that I will never use. Those I will either scrap "easy money" sell "easy money" or trade.
As far as you wanting to do it for whatever reason well good for you.

PS My point was it sounded like the op would just retry some which I replied BAD IDEA.
 
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No, I do not fire unknown live rounds I pick up from the range. I meant that I will rechamber MY own rounds in the event that a malfunction occurs. So long as the damage to the round is not extensive. As far as live range range that I find on the ground etc. They come home the bullets get pulled amd brass saved. I also spend a little time picking up range brass. Even the stuff I don't reload.
 
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On my last visit to my range I collected eleven live rounds, mostly .22. I bring them home and dump them in a box meant for hazmat. Every trip I find at least five or so.

I say don't leave your potentially dangerous junk on the ground. I've been told by people here that it's nothing to worry about, and that they leave dropped stuff where it falls.

My thoughts are that unless a person is the sole owner of the property, by God and all of the angels, you police your dropped ammo. This isn't your bedroom and the owner of this range isn't your mother. Show some respect!
 
I see no problem with breaking down the cartridges in to the various components, people trade for all kinds of stuff. I wouldn't pick them up to shoot them in my guns though, same goes for a box of reloads if given to me.
 
Not so for me. Factory or my own reloads because I'm PARANOID. No possible risks.

Picking up range leavings and using them would be just like drinking that half empty bottle of tequila that was laying in the grass.

A few years ago, I had a pack of Budweiser that was probably two years old. One night, Friday, I left it sitting an a sidewalk down the block and a few hours later it had vanished. I'm pretty sure it couldn't have killed them, but it must have tasted like stump water.
 
I scrounge brass all the time, live rounds too.

Take them apart, dump the powder, use the bullet, reload the brass with the rest.

Are people thinking the brass is jinxed is something?
 
I just don't see why a person would bother using a piece of unknown ammo from the ground.

unless it was the last cartridge on earth, and giant mutant aardvArks had migrated up into Texas, one was inside your house and chewing into the room that you are trapped in, I see no reason to add that unknown ammo into the stockpile.

My super paranoid self comes up with so many scenarios. Find five rounds of scratched up .45 scattered around?

Some dude overloaded his box of ammo to the point that his piece literally disintegrated, tossing ammo, bits of steel, and fragments of giblets and body parts everywhere. His buddies were far too busy picking up the major pieces of his carcass to think about saving his ammo. God help the guy who finds those 100,000 psi rounds, yodels with glee at his good fortune, and scatters that same ammo over that same ground, but this time there's only four.
 
I agree brian The bullet you pull from the casing might not be what you are using so the powder level would need to be changed. I have thousands of casings so I don't need that either.
 
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