Posted: 11/7/2015 12:24:59 PM EDT
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Accidentally left a spare mag out in the rain. Mag is loaded with federal hydrashocks .
Are they still any good? |
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surprised that nobody has posted the scene from "No Country For Old Men" where Josh Brolin swims the river, clears his pistol, then shoots the pursuing dog. My understanding is that commercial and military ammo has sealed primers and bullets to deal with these conditions.
I shoot handloads exclusively for hunting, and would not trust them after a severe dunking. |
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Was it just the bullet that got wet, or did the entire cartridge get wet?
There's a difference, you know. Yes, I know what you meant, but that's immaterial. You're still wrong. "Bullet" and "cartridge" are two different things. Words have meanings and things have names. If we on a gunboard don't care about proper usage of firearms-related terms, we really don't have much standing to poke fun at the politicians and newspeople who talk about "shoulder things that go up", etc. |
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Whatever you do just don't oil them. If you're concerned about it just shoot them and get new ones for carry. I saw a test of that a while back, where they soaked some handgun cartridges in oil, and they still worked fine. But I once left a loaded pistol mag (of .22 LR) sitting on an oily rag for a few weeks, and when I went to fire them, every round was extremely underpowered. They all made it out of the barrel, but you could see the bullet fly, and they didn't make much noise. That was enough to make me cautious about it. |
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I saw a test of that a while back, where they soaked some handgun cartridges in oil, and they still worked fine. But I once left a loaded pistol mag (of .22 LR) sitting on an oily rag for a few weeks, and when I went to fire them, every round was extremely underpowered. They all made it out of the barrel, but you could see the bullet fly, and they didn't make much noise. That was enough to make me cautious about it. Quoted:
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Whatever you do just don't oil them. If you're concerned about it just shoot them and get new ones for carry. I saw a test of that a while back, where they soaked some handgun cartridges in oil, and they still worked fine. But I once left a loaded pistol mag (of .22 LR) sitting on an oily rag for a few weeks, and when I went to fire them, every round was extremely underpowered. They all made it out of the barrel, but you could see the bullet fly, and they didn't make much noise. That was enough to make me cautious about it. It probably depends how well sealed they are. Still as a general rule don't do it. There is no need to, just dry them off and shoot. |
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A few water drops on ammo won't hurt it.
Full submersion in water can compromise the vast majority of self-defense handgun ammunition. In my testing, only ammunition with both primer sealant and neck sealant remained completely reliable after full submersion in water. Very few self-defense handgun ammunition lines actually seal both the case neck and the primer. |
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Quoted: Me too Quoted: Quoted: They'll be fine. I've had rounds go through the washing machine and fire perfectly. Me too Yep. My wife washed a loaded spare mag for my 9mm Hi-Power that I left in my jeans pocket. Took it on my last range trip to see if there were any ill effects, but it ran just fine. |