taco
April 19, 2001, 07:49 PM
This weekend I won a $100 bet with my friend.
My friend is always afraid of getting his carry ammo wet (from rain, sweat, etc) because he believed the powder or the primer would get wet and would not fire. I on the other hand never worried about this because I believed all center fire ammos are waterproof enough not to be effected by something like rain.
Last week we decided to test this and made a bet. We filled a cooler with 3 gallons of distilled water and put in it 150 rounds of various 223Rem, 38 special, 9mm and 45 ACP factory ammo along with several of my lead cast and jacketed reloaded ammo in 38 Special and 45 ACP. This cooler was put in the back of my car for 3 days while I went about my normal daily drives.
On saturday we took all the ammo out of the cooler and drip dried it over night. On sunday we went out to our local rock pit and shot every ammo and guess what... every round fired without any problem including my reloads. We shot every round over the chrono just to check the velocity and every round was within normal range.
Easy $100 bucks and enjoyable too.
We are going to try this again but next time we are going to put all the ammo in a chum bag and sink the ammo in my lake to about 30-40 feet to see if the higher pressure will penetrate the primer pocket or around the bullet. I'm betting all the factory ammo will fire but I don't know about my reloads.
My friend is always afraid of getting his carry ammo wet (from rain, sweat, etc) because he believed the powder or the primer would get wet and would not fire. I on the other hand never worried about this because I believed all center fire ammos are waterproof enough not to be effected by something like rain.
Last week we decided to test this and made a bet. We filled a cooler with 3 gallons of distilled water and put in it 150 rounds of various 223Rem, 38 special, 9mm and 45 ACP factory ammo along with several of my lead cast and jacketed reloaded ammo in 38 Special and 45 ACP. This cooler was put in the back of my car for 3 days while I went about my normal daily drives.
On saturday we took all the ammo out of the cooler and drip dried it over night. On sunday we went out to our local rock pit and shot every ammo and guess what... every round fired without any problem including my reloads. We shot every round over the chrono just to check the velocity and every round was within normal range.
Easy $100 bucks and enjoyable too.
We are going to try this again but next time we are going to put all the ammo in a chum bag and sink the ammo in my lake to about 30-40 feet to see if the higher pressure will penetrate the primer pocket or around the bullet. I'm betting all the factory ammo will fire but I don't know about my reloads.