25,000+ rounds

[Luke E.]

I watched a neighbor and friends house burn tonight taking a great majority of what he owned. The fire started in the garage taking out both Harley's and car parked right outside. He is 80yrs old give or take and was out trying his best with a water hose when I got there. As the fire moved from his garage into a storage room things really picked up. This was his ammo storage and as the rounds started going off he said "you know, this may go on for a while seeing as tho there are 25,000 rounds or more in there". For 20-30 minutes we listened to every last one go off. The fire was put out before it destroyed all of his guns. I think he only lost one and no one was hurt the rest can be replaced.

[CatsEye]

Sorry for his loss. Glad everyone is ok.

[TrickyNicky]

Glad no one was hurt. Like you said the stuff can be replaced, provided he wasn't sitting on 25k of 223 then it may take awhile. Also kind of disproves the "dropped my bullets and got shot" theory. You'd figure if 25,000 can go off with out incident there's not much of a leg to stand on.

[Will H]

No doubt.  Painful thing to watch, but at least everyone is ok.

[scoutfsu]

That makes the inner ammo guy in me cringe. 

 

I always think its a little funny that some people think the bullets actually fire when they're in a...fire

[Luke E.]

Without a chamber wrapped around it brass is going to give. I was less than 50' from the room they were in. I'm pretty sure they explode splitting the case and the lead melts out. Now the loade gun stashed around do pose a threat. Just glad he made it out to be upset about his loss.

[Guest halutz]

that is painful, just like the first week of moving in to my new house a neighbor's house caught on fire. wife donated a lot of clothes and office table, the only thing was left one room and the garage.