ammo went through the washing machine

[hyena]

Just thought I'd share this with others. When I carry a J frame, which is often, I carry five extra rounds of Speer Gold Dot +P in a speed strip. A few days ago, I forgot to remove the speed strip from the pocket of my shorts and ran them through the washing machine. It wasn't until I put all the clothes in the dryer and heard something clanking around that I found them. All five still in the Bianchi speed strip, still in the pocket of the shorts.

Obviously, I replaced those five rounds. But I took them to the range today to see how they worked. All five worked perfectly.

Not recommending you wash your ammo. And I still wouldn't carry any rounds that had been through that. But I was pretty impressed they still functioned fine.

 

[Miami_JBT]

I've had entire magazines with ammo go through the wash cycle a few times. They all work fine.

 

[ddixie884]

I have washed several and have yet to have a round of modern ammo, including my cast reloads fail to fire.........

 

[stansdds]

Odds are your ammo is fine. If you are really worried about it, relegate those rounds to "practice ammo" status.

 

[Johnnu2]

A guy at my range moved to a new residence years ago and, in the process was moving his bazzillion rounds of hand loaded ammo in large plastic buckets and bins. He said that a huge bucket of 45ACP hand loads got filled with rain water during the move and sat that way for weeks before he got around to emptying the water. He said that he's not had any failures to fire in the year or two he's been using those rounds (yes he only shoots them at the range).
I believe him....

J.

 

[SS336]

I've done that, also put a few rounds in my case tumbler, got in my empties bag somehow, when i got back from the range.
They all were reloads and all worked fine. Pretty amazing how tough loaded ammo is.

 

[Danny will]

I'm a banned Scammer!!!
I wash my ammo once in a while and they still work fine !

 

[Buford57]

The closest I've come to a kaboom was a round of Winchester factory .30-40 almost 40 years ago.

I went into the swamp chest deep during a bear hunt. That night I hung the wool mackinaw I had been wearing over the stove to dry. Missed one round in the pocket. About a year later I was shooting, found the round and fired it, completely forgeting the swamp incident. It blew the primer, but the old Krag held. I concluded that condensation had formed inside the case while it was in a wet coat over a hot stove and made a muffin out of the powder resulting in something closer to detonation than ignition. But the primer fired, the powder burned and the bullet hit the target.

Good times.

 

[Drm50]

Everyone should wash their ammo. It leaves clean wounds. I lost 12g shells and found them in woods at least a year later and they still fired. They weren't laying where water could accumulate.

 

[MTC(SS)Ret]

Everyone should wash their ammo. It leaves clean wounds. I lost 12g shells and found them in woods at least a year later and they still fired. They weren't laying where water could accumulate.

You sure don't want someone you have to shoot in a defensive situation getting a wound infection.

 

[Rustyt1953]

A lot of G.I.'s have gone swimming with their ammo.

 

[mckenney99]

A lot of G.I.'s have gone swimming with their ammo.

I believe this was a pretty common occurrence in VN.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

I'm guessing everyone who shoots will unintentionally at some point wash some ammo. I also washed 5 rounds of Speer GDHP ammo and like your ammo, all the rounds fired at the range. I try to fire my last set with my carry ammo before leaving the range. (when the ammo is available of course) I try to replicate my carry ammo but even though I get close it's never really the same...

 

[Tom K]

I've also run USB sticks and SD cards through the wash with no ill effects.