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Posted: 12/15/2005 4:28:23 AM EDT
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A coworker of mine gave me 20+ rounds of 5.56 ammo he had purchase many years ago when he had his AR. The ammo is tarnished to the point where the cases have black stains with a few of them starting to show some pitting (he left them in his garage in a paper bag). The headstamps say TW67. Not wanting to test the big bang theory, what is the proper way to dispose of this ammo? Is it as simple as taking it down to the local gun shop or is there another means that I should follow? I realize that dropping it into the regular trash is not the correct way. Sorry for the pre-school questions; I've never had to throw ammo away before. Thanks! M590man 
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LOL.........I like it!  Most of the time if I come across old "Inop" ammo.........I'll deep six it in the "Cal sag canal" |
| That's kind of funny, because I actually bought about 250 rounds of the Twin Cities stuff from 1970 in loose bags at a local gunshop not too long back. I guess some guy brought it all in and wanted to sell it. There were quite a few cases that were tarnished and had some green corrosion on them. None were pitted though. Anyway, I have went through about 200 of them so far and haven't had a problem. It's good and hot, and pretty accurate too. I would say if they are pitted to stay away from them, but if it's just a little tarnish and corrosion, go ahead and blast. YMMV |
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+1 with one exception. Insted of tossing the brass (I) would probably use the empty casings, still primed, to shoot wooden dowell rods across the back yard. Just using the primer charge oughta toss a dowell pretty far. |
Just send them to me and I'll salvage the bullets. |
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