Is this ammo still good?

[USinDistress]

So I've been helping my buddy move the past couple days and we came across a couple old boxes of pmc ammo (9mm and .45) we opened them up and my friend immediately say to throw them away but I said they looked like they could be saved. After cleaning them up a bit with some ISO alcohol about half of the .45 look brand new with the other half questionable and all of the 9mm questionable



the decent stuff is on the left and the questionables are on the right

these are the two worst of the .45

And here's the 9




the three worst 9mm.

Now as for the 9mm my only pistol in that car is my Beretta vertec which I wouldn't even consider running it in, so I figure if it's usable maybe I'll keep it as a last ditch batch. The .45 I have a Springfield 1911 Which will eat anything you feed it so if the rounds are deemed OK I won't have a problem using it. Any thoughts fellow can gunners?

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[highpower790]

Years ago I acquired some ammo from Israel that still had desert sand encrusted on it.Once delinked and scrubbed,almost everyone went bang.
Clean it ,and shoot it!

[thegreatcow]

I'd say use it as an ammo of last resort honestly if at all. The casings have all of the surface coating stripped away and some of primers look corroded, though the lacquer looks like it's still holding so the primers in theory should be good.

Still, I'd either toss it or use it as last resort or beater ammo.

[MrOrange]

Kinda wonder what happened to it - I have some PMC .45 ACP ammo from, as best as I can remember, circa 1985 and it still looks good as new. The way that .45 is half-and-half decent and cruddy seems strange, like maybe some stayed on the shelf and some got run through a mild acid bath.

If I had that stuff, I'd probably try to set it off in the 625 (my designated .45 ACP garbage disposal), expecting every round to be a dud/squib, just to get rid of it. Seeing as how corroded it is, I wouldn't trust the primers enough to pull the rounds down to salvage the bullets. The 9mm stuff I'd take to the PD for disposal. I don't think throwing away live ammo is a good idea in any case, let alone some that has deteriorated to an unknown degree of stability.

As for last-ditch ammo, I want it to be stuff that I know will fire, cuz, you know, last-ditch.

[fritztkatt]

I'd shoot it SLOW FIRE only.

[pacrat]

Bad, it's ALL BAD

Send it to me for proper disposal.

Tarnish or patina doesn't hurt anything. Deep pitting is another issue, but pics show none.

If in doubt give it to a reloader, like me, for break down and recycling.

[003]

To each his own, but is saving $10.00 to $15.00 really that much of an issue for you? If it was mine it would be in the trash.

[Sir Toast]

To each his own, but is saving $10.00 to $15.00 really that much of an issue for you? If it was mine it would be in the trash.

Yeah, it's .45 acp. $15 at Turners. Don't run that crap through your gun unless you're shooting a Llama. I wouldn't waste the time scrubbing it.

[TKM]

After all of the recent flooding there is a lot of crap ammo out there. Pull the slug, powder the roses, get on with your life.

[mike415stone]

To each his own, but is saving $10.00 to $15.00 really that much of an issue for you? If it was mine it would be in the trash.

^^^

[Jimmy's]

How much do you value your guns? I used to shoot milsurp 30-06 in one of my Sako rifles until one blew all to heck and broke my extractor and peppered my face and arms. No more corroded or cheap ammo in my guns.

[russ69]

After all of the recent flooding there is a lot of crap ammo out there. Pull the slug, powder the roses, get on with your life.

Exactly.

[8886]

From a scientific stand point I'd love to know the ends and out to this. Anyone else have any success or horror stories?

Honestly though, I'd just drop it off at my local range and let them deal with it. They are a pretty adamant about public safety in that regard. I wouldn't cry over $25 in stuff you can find readily available and try to salvage it. Now if it were some kind of exotic caliber for a well built firearm that ammo was scarce...

[Twystd1]

We had a revolver blow up from ammo that looked much like that.

Some kind of liquid got in the ammo and solidified some of the powder. Turned the ammo into a over pressure nightmare.

Pull em and reload em.

Conversely, I will shoot slightly corroded ammo. I simply wipe the rounds down and shOot them.

IF I CAN SEE POSSIBLE LIQUID CONTAMINATION. NO EFFING WAY WILL I SHOOT THEM.

That is my experience. Your may well be different.

-T

[seabee1]

battery acid?