How to dispose of loaded cartridges

[XWrench3]

Either take them to a metro police station, or find a swamp, and throw them as far as you can into it. The chances of any one ever finding them in a swamp are miniscule at best. And if someone does, by then they should be totally inert.

[peerlesscowboy]

Actually, the hard working tax payers back home were paying for it. I understand what you mean and it was a pittance, but we need to stop thinking like that.

When they load up your helicopter with dirty ammo and order you to go dump it in the south China sea.........you fly out over the south China sea and kick it out the door. "theirs not to ask the reason why". You want to see waste? The dump ground outside any large US military post overseas in these third world combat zones will have a local civilian population camped there living in makeshift shelters and living on what the US military throws away.

John C. Saubak

[montana_charlie]

As long as the casing is brass, cutting it with anything will not create any sparks. Sparks from iron or steel is what helps blackpowder go boom.

I see that you have a better understanding of black powder than most who have posted here.
CM

[garym1a2]

If you shoot them only put one round in the gun at a time and wear a glove. If you value your gun don't take the chance. I like the ideal of turning in them to your local police department.

[JIMinPHX]

I like the ideal of turning in them to your local police department.

I tried that once in Boston about 25 years ago. I had a box of wadcutters that would not feed in my gun & I just wanted to give them away to someone who could use them. I figured that if I gave them to the cops, then I wouldn't need to worry about them getting used for any evil purposes. When I offered them up to the guy at the desk, he wanted me to fill out all kinds of crazy paperwork. I just turned around & walked away. I chambered them individually & got rid of them that way. This was back in the days before I reloaded that caliber, back when I didn't need the brass for anything.

[bumpo628]

Years ago, before I reloaded I tried turning in some old ammo at the police dept. They wouldn't take it. They told me I had to turn it in at the nearest hazmat station (which was about 20-30 miles away). Needless to say I didn't bother. I just ended up keeping it in a drawer for years. Eventually, I used it one way or another.

[StrawHat]

I see that you have a better understanding of black powder than most who have posted here.
CM

Thank you.

Black powder is neither "holy" nor "evil". Merely powder, and if you take the time to understand it, it is actually a very useful powder.

[MikeS]

If you shoot them only put one round in the gun at a time and wear a glove. If you value your gun don't take the chance. I like the ideal of turning in them to your local police department.

The police dept. is the last place I would take anything! Down here in so FL if you took them to the PD they'd probably try and find some charge they could arrest you for! Unfortunately I trust the police down here as far as I can throw them, and that ain't far! Now when I lived in east TN I had a totally different outlook on the local police, most of them were really nice people, something I can't say about the police down here.

[adrians]

drill a hole in the telephone pole across the street ,put them in one at a time ,open your living room window, pull up your easy chair and shoot them with a 17hmr,when the neibours across the street are at church.(not really but it's a nice concept)

[waksupi]

Throw them in a lake.

[Pepe Ray]

Parden my ignorance but,
Isn't that ammo for the revolver that moves the cylinder into a forward position to seal off the gasses? I'm inclined to believe that putting them into the cylinder successfully would not proove a good seal or fit would happen when the hammer fell.
I dunno.
I lean toward the pipe cutter as a solution.
Pepe Ray

[megafatcat]

I am sure that Atlanta has a hazardous waste disposal site. You can drop them off there.

[evan price]

Bury them. Just drop them nose down in the dirt somewhere and use your foot to push them in. Maybe kick a little loose turf around. Presto, gone forever.

Most shooting ranges have a squib bucket. Drop them in there.

[Tom W.]

Take them to a deep part of Lake Lanier.....let them find the bottom all by themselves....

[dakotashooter2]

Shoot them...................set on top of a post primer toward you... stand back appropriate distance ...shoot with .22.............

[DrNick]

Campfire?

[WARD O]

If you just can't bring yourself to contaminate good old mother earth by burying or throwing them into some deep water, then the range idea sounds the best to me. Use them as targets, if they don't pop when hit (unlikely) then at least you will have opened them up and can disassemble them if needed.

Or better yet, take them to a gun show and sell them...... (snicker, snicker, snicker)

Ward

[bumpo628]

Doesn't your range have a live ammo bucket?
If you don't want to cut them open, then I would put them in there.