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About LinkBacksOh the humanity, they destroy over 500,000 rounds in these tests! they shoot it, blow it up, drive over it with a bulldozer, they set it on fire!!!
SAAMI - Sporting Ammunition and the Fire Fighter
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Ammo in fires....
Oh the humanity, they destroy over 500,000 rounds in these tests! they shoot it, blow it up, drive over it with a bulldozer, they set it on fire!!!
SAAMI - Sporting Ammunition and the Fire Fighter
"The sword dose not cause the murder, and the maker of the sword dose not bear sin" Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac 11th century
28,000 rounds burned at one time
Noli nothis permittere te terere
Lord, Grant me a good sword and no need to use it.
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The humanity, indeed! That was a good two or three trips to the range!
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
Clint Eastwood
With burning ammo, it's the cases that go sailing more so than the bullets. I can personnally attest that a .22 LR case hurts like heck when it smacks you in the forehead.
And no, I didn't throw it in the campfire. Some previous camper left a little booby trap for us.
Retired USAF E-8. Avatar is OldVet from days long gone - 1978. Oh, to be young again...
Paranoia strikes deep, into your heart it will creep. It starts when you're always afraid... "For What It's Worth" Buffalo Springfield
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Yep, with ammo cooking-off in a fire without a chamber to direct the force of the BOOM the cases usually DO travel further & faster than the lead. Physics says the lighter of the two component flies the most distance away from the same explosion.
There are only TWO kinds of people in this world; those that describe the world as filled with two kinds of people...and those who don't.
They come out with sharp little edges too.
Paranoia strikes deep, into your heart it will creep. It starts when you're always afraid... "For What It's Worth" Buffalo Springfield
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