Dropped rifle cartridges - what do you do?

[enfieldspares]

A certain person in the early 1980s once lost a full "ham can" of six hundred and forty rounds of 7.62x39 ball ammunition in the centre of Coventry at about 10.00 pm at night. A telephone call to West Midlands Police to report the matter was met with the reply "Yes we did wonder who it belonged to." And an invitation to come and collect it. So sh1t does happen. Honestly is as ever always the best policy. Allowing pragmatism to prevail and the missing item to be duly retrieved at around 1.00am from the police station where it was being held and that was the end of the matter.

 

[Flash G 74]

hello, there is a 99.99 chance a metal detector will find it even a cheap one, had to do that when i lost a 22 round on a small farm and i used mine having kept from years of detecting, maybe there is a club nearby who might help

 

[timbrayford]

A certain person in the early 1980s once lost a full "ham can" of six hundred and forty rounds of 7.62x39 ball ammunition in the centre of Coventry at about 10.00 pm at night. A telephone call to West Midlands Police to report the matter was met with the reply "Yes we did wonder who it belonged to." And an invitation to come and collect it. So sh1t does happen. Honestly is as ever always the best policy. Allowing pragmatism to prevail and the missing item to be duly retrieved at around 1.00am from the police station where it was being held and that was the end of the matter.

Yes, report it to your FLD asap and pop your FAC in the post to them for revocation - failure to secure S1 ammunition as required by law.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Never mind a live round - as a reloader I have borrowed a metal detector to find a lost .308 case, which I did!

 

[enfieldspares]

Yes, report it to your FLD asap and pop your FAC in the post to them for revocation - failure to secure S1 ammunition as required by law.

And if you don't and it then gets found and handed in? Which is going to be viewed by the police as the greater of the two sins? Losing it or, having lost it taking a decision to choose not to report it? Have a guess.

 

[User00056]

Forget about it. Move on. 'sake

 

[finnbear270]

I admit to being informed my spare five .270 rounds, in a leather wallet were found by the chamber maid at the Eden.

 

[Long drag]

Had rounds returned to me by local Metal detector, didn't know I had lost.
About 5 years ago lost magazine with rounds in it info local farmer, about 2 years later farmer returned magazine it was found attached to cows hoof.

 

[Jagare]

I would curse myself for loosing a £1 cartridge and them go home for breakfast. I'll have forgotten all about it within a couple of days.

 

[Dorsettaff]

Metal detector. A "friend" of mine has had it happen to them. Clearing the rifle from the high seat and, why does it always happen in ultra slow motion, watched the round tumble end over end into the gorse and heath below! Could I, I mean my "friend" find it? Returned the next day with said detector and found it...along with assorted brass abandoned by previous occupants.

Once used a detector to find a Tikka bolt stop that annoyingly decided to depart the action due to a sheared retaining pin.......Oh..and a small screw from a scope ring.

I'm surprised the US aren't trying to get me to negotiate a mining contract for rare earth metals with the amount of stuff I leave behind!

 

[Mungo]

‘Someone’ I know was once getting ready to stalk on a small farm.

A very dapper elderly gent rushed up, and gleefully said ‘ah! Just the chap! I believe I have something of yours. Wait here’.

He rushed off, to return 5 minutes later proudly brandishing a shiny live 6.5Creedmoor bullet.

 

[paul o']

Yours is only one of many maybe thousands from over the years we regularly have stuff being found and disposed of. This was just one the boys removed not far from the beaches .

 

[barbel]

Would the damp get into the cartridge and make it unable to fire, especially in the winter ???

 

[MilesW]

And if you don't and it then gets found and handed in? Which is going to be viewed by the police as the greater of the two sins? Losing it or, having lost it taking a decision to choose not to report it? Have a guess.

Last time I looked, rounds have no personal identifiers. Stock answer, not mine.
Pretty miserable society when one is fretting over a lost round.
Thinking about it, shouldn't any person handing it in be charged with possession of ammunition without authority?

 

[Rake Aboot]

Rod , back.

 

[Archer]

Found a live 50 cal in a wood. Shooting mentor that day was also an RFD. He took charge of it.- Research of the headstamp showed it was Canadian and locally it was known the wood being where there was (in 1944) a tented camp for Canadian soldiers.

 

[Frank Homes]

Yes, report it to your FLD asap and pop your FAC in the post to them for revocation - failure to secure S1 ammunition as required by law.

Except it's in use? or was up to the point of loss.

 

[20-250]

Thinking about it, shouldn't any person handing it in be charged with possession of ammunition without authority?

No. An innocent finder would be blameless (unless they decided to keep it). Finding would be viewed a reasonable excuse for their possession to allow them to hand it in without penalty.

 

[Nickb]

And if you don't and it then gets found and handed in?

How can the police prove who the round belongs to ?

 

[Foxyboy43]

How can the police prove who the round belongs to ?

Well. If it’s a you-know-what chambering they simply round up any furtive-looking chaps sporting manbuns.
Simples!