Funny!

[mentalbreakdown00]

I think mythbusters tried that, it melts in the barrel

 

[Mac]

Got side tracked looking for some Darwin Award winers an found this relating to guns, ammo and primers.




Tired Ammo
1990 Darwin Award Nominee
Unconfirmed by Darwin
(1990's, United States) I heard the following at work in the gun shop. The events described below (if it's not a legend) occurred in the 1990's in the southwest.
A small-time hood (about to be even smaller) broke into the home of a World War Two veteran and stole, among other things, the old G.I.'s .45 automatic pistol, which he used in battle in the 1940's. The hoodlum then reported directly to a local convenience store and proceeded to rob the cashier while brandishing his new pistol. The cashier, no dummy, followed orders and handed over the contents of the register.

Our thug took the money and turned to leave, but suddenly decided he didn't want to leave a witnesses... other than the security camera, that is. He leveled the pistol at the cashier and pulled the trigger.

"CLICK!" went the gun.

At this unexpected development, the puzzled crook looked straight down the barrel of his weapon and uttered the words, "What the...?"

As it turned out, the WWII veteran had WWII vintage ammunition in his WWII vintage pistol. Priming caps over time are known to lose their "spontaneous" nature, particularly if stored improperly, causing what is known as a hang-fire: The primer smolders into a delayed ignition.

Such was the case here.

Just as the puzzled crook had the barrel pointed squarely at his own eye, the hang-fired primer detonated, sending a half-inch chunk of lead and associated hot combustion gases directly into the felon's skull at 900 feet per second.

The range was less than six inches.
The body could only be identified by fingerprints.

As the story was related to me, the police officer who responded to the original gun burglary was also at the scene of the armed robbery. He picked up the .45 and verified the serial number, then returned it to the WWII veteran.

 

[Hopman]

If you're STUPID enough to rob a WWII vet (or any veteren for that matter), you desverve to be shot.

Great story, BTW!

 

[hoosier1104]

That is classical.

 

[feellnfroggy]

LOL, Our phrase in the mortar section. HANG IT.......FIRE ! Gotta ,love hang fire ammunition.

 

[cody93]

oh god, ive heard this coming a long time, there a few thing i wana say.
1. lead alternitives cost more
2. lead lacks the density.
3. i smell comunisim

they better not replace "self defence" type ammo, such as handgun ammo. not many people fire off hand guns to hunt animals. i dont like the way our country is heading, something bads gona happen, i just know it.

 

[Kirbot]

This has nothing at all with any gun regulations. Same reason they took lead of of paint and eliminated cad plating, just not good for Mother Earth (you and me).
Dave

That all depends on who's studies you believe.
From what I've seen, It stays quite intact, thats why you can dig up, civil war era bullets that weigh just as much as when they were fired.

Besides, even if it did "leach" in to the ground, do you really think that it could possible be in amounts large enough to cause the slightest problem?
Maybe if your well was right under a shooting range, but I doubt it.

Again, all that depends on who's studies you put your trust in.
From what I gather, it never makes it down more than a few inches.

 

[baddis]

I thought it was a federal law that you couldn't shoot waterfowl with lead anymore. Most people use steel shot - but if you've got a really old shotgun, it can seriously trash the barrel.

steel shot has been federally mandated for around 20 years for waterfowl . and the steel shot will hut a full choke but the others should be ok.