Dropped rifle cartridges - what do you do?

[JockStalk]

‘some kids in Edinburgh’ used to search around the pentlands for dropped brass and occasionally find the odd live round, smoke canister etc.
I have that on quite good authority.

 

[Buchan]

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[VSS]

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Would that be suitable for checking meat for bullet fragments?

Edit: I just read the blurb. No it wouldn't.

 

[timbrayford]

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.

Both risk revocation, take your pick

 

[dryan]

If you can't find, stamp over the ground and forget about it. Nature will eventually make it inert.

 

[Dorsettaff]

Hi.
Was it one of the pre T3 Tikkas? My 690 did the same thing on Pickering range. Bolt came straight back and out of the rifle when i went to chamber another cartridge.

Shooting Lodge at Skipton - anyone remember them? - got it fixed.

Hi Yorkie...No it was a T3. The retaining pin sheared, bolt stop pinged out and as I attempted to rack another round ended up with the bolt in my hand thinking "WTF?"

 

[Dorsettaff]

If you can't find, stamp over the ground and forget about it. Nature will eventually make it inert.

Until Dan Snow and Tony Robinson unearth it and discover the til then unknown "Battle of Sedgewick Hedge"

 

[Druid]

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Around this part of East Anglia if you tried to use that to find a dropped round of ammo you may not find your dropped ammo but probably find several .50 calibre and a couple of .303.
Both empty and live WW2 vintage are in abundance.

 

[opticron1]

‘some kids in Edinburgh’ used to search around the pentlands for dropped brass and occasionally find the odd live round, smoke canister etc.
I have that on quite good authority.

That reminds me of walking out onto Cape Wrath.....Be aware - do not pick anything metallic up!

Oh yeah - same applies to anywhere around Otterburn.....

 

[Rhodesianjess]

That reminds me of walking out onto Cape Wrath.....Be aware - do not pick anything metallic up!

Oh yeah - same applies to anywhere around Otterburn.....

Loading for the boss in Norfolk, found several grenade spoons and rings. The estate we were on has an Afghan village on it to train the lads that were being posted out there.
Doubt there's any lives but blanks aplenty laying about.

 

[splash]

Funny how people worry and times change.
I can remember as a kid, older youths used to get detonators from the local railway buildings.
Then drop house bricks from the top of the children’s slide on our local park
Amazing how high a perfectly dropped brick flew
But sometimes a bad brick would turn into a claymore

 

[Smokeypole]

Get yourself a cheap metal detector. I mostly use mine for tracing cables and stud work under plasterboard. But it’s great for my son’s attempts at mechanising on the lawn when he drops nuts and bolts of his bike and picks up .22 rounds a treat in the grass. Not found any sovereigns yet or Roman hoards or other peoples watches and wedding rings on the beach but then again I don’t go looking. I love eBay couple of clicks and a present arrives a couple of days later…magic.

 

[Greenmist]

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.

Thats the common sense approach, people have been charged after taking firearms they've found despite informing police, not much of a jump to use the same idiocracy to a live round

 

[Heym SR20]

Questions on whether rounds will fire after many years. It depends. A lot of factory ammo, especially military will be crimped abd sealed with varnish in the primer pocket and around bullet. Such ammo could well fire after many years of lying in the mud.

May not work particularly well, but I certainly wouldn’t want to stand in front of gun firing it. Saying that I have 70 year old military ball and kynoch sporting ammo shoot just fine.

As for the authorities working out whose ammo it was, doesn’t brass retain finger prints very well? There is a whole branch of forensic science dedicated to this subject.

 

[Bo Diddley]

kids picked them up, we caught them hammering them open with rocks round the fire pit’ !!!!!

Sounds like my childhood.

 

[Sheamus]

I found this some years ago whilst out.
Anyone have any idea of the calibre/use?

 

[AlexD]

All the farms I shoot is just me (don't need to be in a syndicate ) so a .270 HL with ppu case 150 sgk head or .243 win brass and 95gn sst HL would be mine.
Besides if you made a mistake and they were called then they would soon be knocking on doors!

There are a lot of poachers around Tim, and they can be so careless, creeping around as they do at night

 

[Tim.243]

There are a lot of poachers around Tim, and they can be so careless, creeping around as they do at night

For muntjac @50p a KG good luck
Stealing Machinery Plant diggers quads get sets trucks is much higher up the list than deer lol

 

[enfieldspares]

I found this some years ago whilst out.
Anyone have any idea of the calibre/use?View attachment 408366

7.92x57 German. D Dresden, 2 18 February 1918 so WWI. SE. Steel case. Try a magnet on it.