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    Commercially reloaded surplus ammo

    Picked these up this week for a couple dollars. They aren't any good i don't think as the powder does not shake in any of them. So i pulled one... With my hands. With no effort. You can see in one pic where the powder is caked together.



















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    If nothing else, could you pull the bullets, reload fresh powder in them, and re-crimp the bullet to the case and shoot them?

    At least, you'd get one shot from them....
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    You sure its powder? I would be willing to bet that its cordite.

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    Maybe. I was thinking i would pull the bullets, dump the powder, squirt a tiny bit of WD-40 inside the cases to kill the primers and put the vintage box of ammo on my shelf next to the other junk up there.
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    The cordite should still be good, I've shot brit surplus loaded the same way (including the wad that gets blown to bits with every shot. )

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    Quote Originally Posted by raxar View Post
    You sure its powder? I would be willing to bet that its cordite.
    It is cordite... I just went in my workshop and tried to dump what i thought was clumped powder after i read your comment. I banged the case on the desk a bunch of times and i got a couple rods starting to come out. Tomorrow I will take some pictures for those who might not have seen it before. These were worth the two bucks just for the learning experience i am getting... Thanks for the heads up. I am going to fire a few to see what cordite is like.
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    I also noticed the brass case is split right to the shoulder. Thats how i was able to pull the bullet out with my fingers.
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    and i thought it was damp powder because it wasn't shaking around. I can't wait to try a few of these. Smell the smoke etc. I never fired cordite round before.

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    can i fire one like a blank with the bullet pulled out? That paper card in there will hold everything in until it ignites no?
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    Quote Originally Posted by rci2950 View Post
    and i thought it was damp powder because it wasn't shaking around. I can't wait to try a few of these. Smell the smoke etc. I never fired cordite round before.


    Wow, it looks like broken spaghetti pieces.
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    i bought probly 1500 rounds of that stuff. all of it shot perfectly .
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    Amazing cordite loaded cases are still out there.

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    Yep, that's cordite. It will perform better if you heat it up some - like leaving it in your car trunk in the sun. Otherwise, you may get hang fires. I had some Kynoch cordite ammo (still have a box) that had hang fires. Click.... bang.
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    Quote Originally Posted by O.S.O.K. View Post
    Yep, that's cordite. It will perform better if you heat it up some - like leaving it in your car trunk in the sun. Otherwise, you may get hang fires. I had some Kynoch cordite ammo (still have a box) that had hang fires. Click.... bang.
    I will do that. I tried to burn one of the sticks of cordite with a bic lighter. It burned like a wood toothpick... Very anti climactic.
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