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That's some fugly ammo.
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AHM
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Is Superfruit flavor good to clean bores with copper and lead build-up?Wipe down with Clearasil pads. Should clean that right up...
greencobra
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if you think thats bad then i'm extremely embarrassed and won't mention some of the ammo i've burned through over the years. oops, i just did...
Whiskeywon
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Should see some of the Red Army steel 7,62x54r I just opened up.
Got covered in oxide cleaner (meant to sanitize against staph and other similar nastiness. Woops
When I get some time, I'll show you "fugly ammo". Greek HXP 30.06 out of two spam cans where one of the bandoliers had got caught in the roll crimp and wicked in moisture over years....( not in my storage condition but from the time it was produced ).....1972.
Bandoliers completely rotted away, enbloc clips rusted to flakes, ammo caked with thick layer of green corrosion....an absolute mess.
Odly enough, the powder was still dry in most of the ammo ( no not going to salvage it ) I pulled about thirty rounds just to satisfy my curiosity.
Will post a picture when I can get outside and dump it on some cardboard. Been raining steady here for almost two days and two more to go. Ida remnants.
Bandoliers completely rotted away, enbloc clips rusted to flakes, ammo caked with thick layer of green corrosion....an absolute mess.
Odly enough, the powder was still dry in most of the ammo ( no not going to salvage it ) I pulled about thirty rounds just to satisfy my curiosity.
Will post a picture when I can get outside and dump it on some cardboard. Been raining steady here for almost two days and two more to go. Ida remnants.
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Yeah, I bought a bunch of those spam-cans (CMP) and after a little read on the CMP-Forum decided it would be better to open the cans and put the ammo (after inspection) into new U.S.G.I. .30 CAL cans (with some good desiccant.)
Absolutely did not want to open a bad can when I needed the ammo for SHTF (if that is still a "thing"...)
Luckily, 100%
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Yes, good idea. I've opened all of mine, inspected and re packed in almost new condition .50cal cans
I feel lucky actually.....only 2 bad ones out of a pallet of 54 cans purchased. Hey, shit happens. The cans looked fine but amazing what happened over time.
Yup, looked just like old stuff. Except it wasn't.
Neither. New-in-the-box Federal Lake City.
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That's quite normal looking for Lake City military ammo.....they don't polish it up for a retail market. The .50bmg stuff usually still has lubricant on it along with some tarnish. All goes bang.
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How about some pretty ammo for comparison:
Those must be the anti-Werewolf rounds^
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I would just put it in the Vibratory corn cob / walnut Tumbler after its fired….If you really care about how it looks when it doesn’t even matter you can put it in there while it’s live. You’re not supposed to but what’s the worst that could happen?
