Will dropping a round in the dog bowl ruin it?

Food bowl or water bowl? If food bowl, wipe it off and it’s good. If water bowl, I wouldn’t trust it for self defense, but I’d still try it at the range.
 
It shouldn't hurt the dog a bit, unless he eats it.

Just dry it off and shoot it first chance you get. At a range, not in self defense.
 
I have a little hydroponics system in my garage. There's a 55 gallon water barrel which pumps to two tupperware tubs and then drains.

That water barrel also happens to be a great backstop for clearing a gun and dry fire. So one day I take my gun out of the holster and point it at the barrel and rack the slide. The loaded round flies about 10 feet to my right and lands in a puddle of orange mineral filled water in one of the bins.

I have enough self defense ammo that I just replaced it. Don't trust that one.
 
With short term exposure, it won't hurt anything.


Even with a few minutes of exposure, it's good.
A few years back, I dropped a few rounds of .30-06 Hornady Custom ammunition in my brother's beer, while he wasn't looking. He didn't notice, until the Accubond's plastic tip hit his lip. It shot just fine. :D


(I've tested ammunition for reliability after water submersion for up to 140 days in 8 inches of water. All types survived for more than 14 days, and several types survived more than 40 days. A quick dunking in 1-2 inches is nothing.)
 
You did not say what kind of ammo.... so....

Assuming it is factory loaded new center-fire ammo I would have no worries. Storing it in water would be bad idea, the occasional bath no issues.

Unless-
- it was shotgun ammo and it stayed in there more than a second or two
- or most any type of .22lr rimfire


I would dispose of the either of those without shooting them.
 
One of the advantages of the self contained ammunition we use, over the paper cartridges used in the civil war, is that it is very waterproof. You really have to try to introduce water into the interior.
 
Modern ammo is really quite excellent

Long term submersion is probably not a great idea, but wet ammo is not a concern in nearly any modern firearm.
 
I have vacuum pumps, if I decide to test a case for leakage, sealing at the primer or neck of the case I can place loaded ammo in a jar full of water and place a vacuum on it. Bubbles escaping from around the primer and or neck of the case will indicate I do not have primers that did not seal and bullet that did not seal in the neck, and if I have a split neck the split neck will show bubbles.

I want all the bullet hold I can get, loose necks cause bubbles.

F. Guffey
 
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