chris in va
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Can someone explain the process? My Google-fu is on vacation today.
welded a shellholder to a chisel on a pneumatic tool to pull bullets
I vaguely recall reading that sometimes the sales contract for surplus ammo specifies that the cartridges must be disassembled prior to resale.Miata Mike said:I just bought some 55 grain .223 fmj bullets that were "air pulled" and they look excellent. Not sure why these cartridges were disassembled for parts instead of left whole.
Mike,
Cartridges can get too old. The powder eventually deteriorates. I had some Czech .308 surplus one time which were terribly inaccurate and about 5% would fire very weakly. When I pulled a few I found the powder in a lot of them was clumped together, which is one kind of deterioration symptom. Too old. In addition, these were corrosively primed Berdan brass. Only the bullet was salvageable unless I wanted to shoot the corrosive primers, and even then it took some work to get the sticky powder out. Not worth the effort.