[JBubbs]

So I have a few AK rounds that jammed into the bullet guide on my Saiga (Crapco mag). Obviously I know not to fire them but I don't have a bullet puller yet. Do they pose a danger at all from being jammed like that?

 

[5L1mm]

well i mean... its not good.
they shouldnt go off just from being jammed, but i would lock it open, or disassemble it so no mechanisms accidentally hit those primers.

then be really careful taking them out

 

[Knightslugger]

they pose no danger being jammed in like that. JUST DON'T SHOOT THEM (as you already know).

bullet pullers are pretty cheap, I like the ones that grab the bullet (non-kinetic).

my fav. so far:

Hornady Bullet Puller

 

[JBubbs]

Thanks, kinda figured they were harmless. Next question, what do I do with the powder? Scare the neighbor kids?

 

[Knightslugger]

nothing to scare them with. it just burns, and not quickly like black powder. but that's what i do with random powder, i just burn it.

 

[fredj338]

Keep in mind that OAL, bullet setback & pressures are inverse from rifle to pistol. It's likely they would fire w/ little issue. The bullet being that far away form the rifling reduces pressures more than compressing powder raising pressures. No good reason to shoot them though, unless you just want to make noise.

 

[Knightslugger]

i think the bulk of the gasses would just go around the bullet, the bullet would get lodged in sideways, and it'd sail through the air like a full size football thrown by a 4 year old.

 

[JBubbs]

Keep in mind that OAL, bullet setback & pressures are inverse from rifle to pistol. It's likely they would fire w/ little issue. The bullet being that far away form the rifling reduces pressures more than compressing powder raising pressures. No good reason to shoot them though, unless you just want to make noise.

Wouldn't that make it a candidate for a squib? Either way the rounds aren't going back in a gun. Or would you put the empty case back in to set off the primer?

 

[Knightslugger]

you could do that, i guess... i wouldn't. just fouls up the barrel.

 

[JBubbs]

Just toss em?

 

[Knightslugger]

Just toss em?

I put them in my junk brass bin. The recycler gets 'em. but i don't have many that have live primers either. Otherwise yeah, I give them back to mother nature.

 

[JBubbs]

Yeah, I'm talking steel cased AK rounds and I don't reload. Basically trying to dispose of them as safely as possible.

 

[Knightslugger]

Just chuck 'em in the tall grass.

 

[GT Jon]

Use the powder as fertilizer, hit the primer in the case with some wd40, and toss the case and bullet away.

 

[fredj338]

Wouldn't that make it a candidate for a squib? Either way the rounds aren't going back in a gun. Or would you put the empty case back in to set off the primer?

Not likely, just a lower pressure event. Full disclosure, I have done it w/ an ar & the 223. Nothing terrible happened, it even ade it over the chrono, just at a lesser vel than normal. Just take them apart if you reload or you can drop them into the range bucket. Someone will deal with tem.