What to do with bad ammo

[kris smith]

I have 253 rounds of 41 rafted royal labs 303 mk7 and I fired off about 5 rounds tonight and everyone was a click bang or just a click. Leads me to believe this batch has gone off. Should I break it down for the bullets and scrap the rest or do people collect this stuff to not shoot. The brass is berdan primed. And has cordite loading.

[Sig so sour of ca]

Pull it, get rid of the cordite, and look up a load with smokeless. My fiend did this with his martini rounds. He ended up drilling out the primers and uses shotgun primers instead.

[jsanch03]

[kris smith]

[jsanch03]

[bigbossman]

I'd either pull the bullets for reuse and toss the rest, or pull the bullets, replace the cordite with an appropriate smokeless powder load, reseat the bullet, and shoot them.

[kris smith]

[divingin]

Back when I had my Enfield (regret selling it) I pulled a few bullets just to see what cordite looked like.

Did you get a hankering for spaghetti?

[jsanch03]

Haha more like an appetite for crumpets and tea lad

The cordite smelled pretty weird when I lit it by itself


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[Supertankerm60a3]

Would you be interested in selling the Cordite?

[Beelzy]

Haha more like an appetite for crumpets and tea lad

The cordite smelled pretty weird when I lit it by itself


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Ahh, the smell of burnt Cordite...that takes me back.

[Supertankerm60a3]

I put up a WTB in the market place.

[hermosabeach]

drop them in the dud barrel at the range

to me, the headache of a squib getting stuck in the barrel is not worth it


also... with cordite- wait 60-120 seconds before running the bolt.

if cordite has gotten wet, it can smolder and really give you a delay with ignition.

no need to have a KB while you are opening the bolt