Special People, Special Exemptions

[txswimmer]

I had a draft card. With the wrong birthdate. Would have meant being drafted sooner than I would had the date been right. But it worked out. The draft ended. And I ended up joining, anyhow.

[mac]

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I think Mac was given a stone tablet to carrier around.

actually, it was a carved stick but that's ok.....mac

[fchafey]

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actually, it was a carved stick but that's ok.....mac

How long did you really have to stand there, closing the roads until them " 3 fellas bearing gifts" crossed?

[Grammar Rules]

I don’t want to start a new thread, but I’m pretty special, so I’ll ask a question here.

My late husband’s hunting vest with loops and pockets for shotgun shells (which are still in it) is in the closet. I’m guessing the shells are maybe fifteen years old, since his health declined and he quit bird hunting.

Are these safe? Should I discard them, and if so, how?

[Mestral]

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I don’t want to start a new thread, but I’m pretty special, so I’ll ask a question here.

My late husband’s hunting vest with loops and pockets for shotgun shells (which are still in it) is in the closet. I’m guessing the shells are maybe fifteen years old, since his health declined and he quit bird hunting.

Are these safe? Should I discard them, and if so, how?

Assuming they are commercial ammo that wasn't left in 110 degree heat over more than one summer,
nor submerged for more than two days under water (or two hours, if they are paper shells),
they should be fine. Reliable and safe. Yes.

Commercial ammo has a shelf life exceeding 30 years.

Dispose of them by giving them to some other hunter.

[Dagobert II]

I bought my M-60 through a class III dealer who was into old WWI Maxims and had a couple of conex containers full of the old steel cased stuff that the Kaiser"s Reichswehr was no longer using. It worked fine.

[sojourner truth]

I have thousands of rounds of 7.62 NATO stuff that is probably circa VN era or older that shoots just fine in my M1A. Of course, they are packed in the original mil cans, and kept in an air conditioned house, inside a closet.

My 5.56 stuff is all fairly old, but still shoots well. Of course, shotgun ammo is a mystery to me as I do not own one... Maybe Joe Biden would know. Being encased in paper and coated with whatever it is they coat the stuff with probably makes it near immortal.

[mac]

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I don’t want to start a new thread, but I’m pretty special, so I’ll ask a question here.

My late husband’s hunting vest with loops and pockets for shotgun shells (which are still in it) is in the closet. I’m guessing the shells are maybe fifteen years old, since his health declined and he quit bird hunting.

Are these safe? Should I discard them, and if so, how?

kind of hard to tell, Grammar, without actually lookin' at them. Are they red or green, hopefully not black, plastic or paper?

how to dispose of them? I thought you lived in the country......if so, wait till dove season opens and then take them out and shoot 'em off.......if you get a soft "poof" instead of a loud blast........throw 'em the nearest tank or nolan crick.....and take the shotgun to the gunsmith or someone with a cleaning rod to clear the wad out of the barrell......do not shoot again after the "poof" until you clear the barrel !........mac

[Rick]

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kind of hard to tell, Grammar, without actually lookin' at them. Are they red or green, hopefully not black, plastic or paper?

how to dispose of them? I thought you lived in the country......if so, wait till dove season opens and then take them out and shoot 'em off.......if you get a soft "poof" instead of a loud blast........throw 'em the nearest tank or nolan crick.....and take the shotgun to the gunsmith or someone with a cleaning rod to clear the wad out of the barrell......do not shoot again after the "poof" until you clear the barrel !........mac

I know better than to ask, reminds me of Big Bang Theory when someone asks Sheldon a question, but I'm going to anyway.

What's wrong with black shells? The turkey loads I but are black.

[Dagobert II]

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Of course, shotgun ammo is a mystery to me as I do not own one... Maybe Joe Biden would know. Being encased in paper and coated with whatever it is they coat the stuff with probably makes it near immortal.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that paper shells were still in use by somebody but everything I've seen lately has been plastic.

When I first started with the PD we didn't qualify with our shotguns and were given a box of buckshot that often wasn't fired for years as officers loaded and unloaded it into the shotguns. I recall one officer who put a sun roof in her patrol car while using the trigger unloading technique.

As the shells aged over the years the repeated loading and unloading would often loosen the crimping at the end and the styrofoam packing between the pellets would start falling out. Officers would sometimes attempt to remedy this by dripping paraffin over the crimping to seal it back up.

When we started using the issued shells at qualification and getting replacement shells that problem was solved. Of course a new problem arose when some officers encountered difficulty qualifying with the 12 Ga.