Why does the ammo handeling burn and turn my hands red?

[ricknadine1111]

my friend just purchased a ammo can full of boxed 223 I think around 1,000 rounds but when handeling the ammo boxes his hands started turing red and burning, why?

[gimmejr]

Better go wash it, in gasoline.

[Commander_Cody]

Are they brass cases? Or nickel?

[Commander_Cody]

After further thought, he must be allergic to HOT loads, tell him to quit hang'in out in the Castro.

[ricknadine1111]

The ammo is brass and it iritated my hands also. This is just from handeling the boxes of ammo.

[Cypriss32]

What ever it is its not safe for you. Hand em over.......

[Sinixstar]

What kind of ammo is it? Where did you get it from?
It sounds like there is something on these boxes that shouldn't be there, unless this is something that happens regularly.
I get the same thing sometimes when I i'm shooting a lot of the Remington .22s with the cheap "gold" coating. The coating just irritates my skin for some reason (as does a few other things, mostly metals).

If this doesn't normally happen to you when handling other types of ammo, I might be a little suspect. Obviously there is some sort of contaminate causing a reaction that is specific to this ammo - and that would certainly make me go "hmm" if I didn't know what that contaminate was.

[jwest]

Sounds like some type of corrosive possibly - I recommend getting some
D-Wipes:

http://www.esca-tech.com/WetDry.htm

I use 'em after every reloading session.

[ar15barrels]

I think that ammo is corrosive.
Better not shoot it.

[jwest]

Yeah, I thought about this too - and Randall is right.

0.223 became standard after the 'era' of corrosive ammo - so there may be something not quite on the up-and-up with that ammo.

If it was 7.62x54R that's one thing - but since it's 0.223 - then that's another story.

[ColetheGun]

depleted uranium core?

[ar15barrels]

depleted uranium core?

That's it.
The uranium is coming up on it's half life and it's converting to a soluable liquid which is seeping out of the cardboard boxes.
One symptom of liquid uranium on cardboard is that your skin turns red.
Another symptom of liquid uranium on cardboard is that your skin burns.
Beware of liquid uranium on cardboard.

The only known cure for this is to take a bath in a mixture of tomato juice and lime juice.
The limes need to be picked from the southward facing side of the tree under a full moon.

I have southward facing full moon limes available at $5 each.
I recommend you get 100 of them to mix up that bath.

[ColetheGun]

That's it.
The uranium is coming up on it's half life and it's converting to a soluable liquid which is seeping out of the cardboard boxes.
One symptom of liquid uranium on cardboard is that your skin turns red.
Another symptom of liquid uranium on cardboard is that your skin burns.
Beware of liquid uranium on cardboard.

The only known cure for this is to take a bath in a mixture of tomato juice and lime juice.
The limes need to be picked from the southward facing side of the tree under a full moon.

I have southward facing full moon limes available at $5 each.
I recommend you get 100 of them to mix up that bath.

hes got your cure buy his limes!!! NOW!!! BUY THEM NOW! no more red hands

[Sinixstar]

hes got your cure buy his limes!!! NOW!!! BUY THEM NOW! no more red hands

You better buy 'em now- with Obama in office - you know they'll be banned by next year.