What is the protocol at your indoor / outdoor range for disposing of "light strike" rounds which have failed to fire?

trash can

some ranges allow you to police your brass, within reason, others will tell you to leave it alone, or broom it to a spot. they will either sort and resell it, or will just scoop it up and sell it for scrap. the recyclers do not like to have live rounds mixed in. so they just have it put in the trash.

Our club has specially designed recepticals to put light strikes and miss fires into. It is amazing the number of rounds that will accumulate in a months time.

I have emptied hundreds of miss fired .22's from our two containers as well as a full assortment of centerfire.

LTC

The members at my club are to take home misfires and dispose of them properly. From the number I've picked up off the ground, few do so.

Saw a guy at the local range putting .22 misfires in his pocket. I politely informed him about hang fires and suggested he throw them in the covered steel barrel put in place for just such an occasion.

i shoot them again first, sometimes have luck sometimes not...

locked steel box at firing line...but on the rare occaison that i get a centerfire dud, it goes in my ammobox to be taken apart later and reused

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the rules? there are no rules

In the Navy we were told to keep the round in the chamber at least 30 seconds, before removing it.

Don't think small arms ammo whould be something to really wory about .....when you think of what can happen when part of a silk powder bag is left smoldering in a 16" gun on a big Battle Wagon. It has happened...............

We also switched from the m-1 to the m-14 nato and that new rifle "made by Matel" would have the flash surpressor work loose at the range, and spray copper shavings across the line and even shoot the supressor down range!
You would be amazed at all the "Stuff" that happens on a fun outting at the range or a trip to grand mothers house.

the dud 22lrs and any center fire I take home and disassemble for reuse. If it's one I loaded I want to know what I did to cause a dud. Is it me or the gun.

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Carpriver.

The RSO at the outdoor range i am a member at instructed
me to throw them in the ditch. It is a rather deep ditch and
is always filled with water. They were .22 rounds. If they were
anything but .22 i would reload it. We are instructed to police our
own brass. He said that it was a good way to avoid them getting
hit with the lawn mower and if i put them in the trash can
their was a possibility the contents would end up in the burn pit.
gl and have fun
dave

Centerfire rounds go home to be dissassembled for componets, I also take the rimfires home to pull the bullet for the lead pot. Most people just leave them on the table or ground and I pick up a lot of those too for salvage.

First off, no range is telling me what to do with brass I purchased. If I buy the ammo, I own it--not the range. I'll gladly leave it when they provide ammo free of charge.

As to misfires, I wait a moment and try it again. In all my shooting I've had maybe 6-7 misfires, and only two were absolute duds.

If you're suffering "light strikes" you need to have your firearm looked at as strikes should be consistant.

If you're suffering "light strikes" you need to have your firearm looked at as strikes should be consistant.[/QUOTE]

No - I'm in the process of editing a Range Safety Protocol and this issue wasn't satisfactorily addressed. I thought it might be useful to see what everyone else is doing.

There Range safty and there is range rules..........

telling customers what to do with light hits or "Duds" can be posted.................. but it is up to the indivigual on what happens to the bad ammo.

We have all the big signs and rules and range officers to check on the people but there is always going to be someone that mistakingly points a gun muzzle other than down range,brings a gun onto the property uncased or with out the bolt or action in the open position.

Even if you had a Red bucket for the duds, you would find everything from boxs to chewing gum in it at the end of the day and few duds. Nice idea but some people are lazy or don't care about rules when they just spent $10 to shoot.
Good luck