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Safety and Survival
don't throw old ordinance on a fire!
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<blockquote data-quote="Occasional_panner" data-source="post: 441633" data-attributes="member: 7956"><p>Ammo of that era was filled with cordite, which is a slow burning material.</p><p>If you get a 50/30/.303 cal shell and throw it in a fire the projectile will simply pop out without any force and the cordite inside will just burn away.</p><p></p><p>BUT like what Aussie Chris has experienced, the primer is in fact a bloody powerful device, it's designed to ignite very quickly and burn all the propellant all at once evenly. By itself it can do nasty damage, they by themselves will make a loud bang, but hardly what I would call an explosion.</p><p></p><p>Not a smart thing to do but not nearly as dangerous as most would think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Occasional_panner, post: 441633, member: 7956"] Ammo of that era was filled with cordite, which is a slow burning material. If you get a 50/30/.303 cal shell and throw it in a fire the projectile will simply pop out without any force and the cordite inside will just burn away. BUT like what Aussie Chris has experienced, the primer is in fact a bloody powerful device, it's designed to ignite very quickly and burn all the propellant all at once evenly. By itself it can do nasty damage, they by themselves will make a loud bang, but hardly what I would call an explosion. Not a smart thing to do but not nearly as dangerous as most would think. [/QUOTE]
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