Awesome SAAMI test dispels fears about sporting ammo

[BigK]

This is a long video, but it's VERY impressive. The did a lot of tests from blasting caps to full-on bonfires to show how little danger there is from loose and boxed ammo.

 

SPOILER ALERT: The coolest part is that near the end. They simulated a gun store fire to show that firefighters can safely fight the fire without danger.

 

[media]http://youtu.be/3SlOXowwC4c[/media]

 

DISCLAIMER: Sadly, millions of rounds of perfectly good ammo were harmed in the making of this video.

Edited September 17, 2014 by BigK

[musicman]

Sniff, sniff.... all that good ammo! I especially hated the part where they smooshed all that 44 with the tank!

But yea, very informative. I always knew it wasn't that big of a deal to throw live ammo into a camp fire!

[Luke E.]

 Last winter one of my neighbor's house burnt down. he estimated about 30,000 rounds of various ammo were in a few different places within the house. Most of the ammo was in the garage and I was there when it first started to go bang. It's sounded like a massive firefight going on but i don't believe a single bullets left the case at any kind of speed. The next day I went up and was just poking around the burnt out shell of a house and there was a fair bit of brass with the sides split and most all of the brass was without bullets. Some of the brass would have a little melted "goober" of lead sitting beside it almost like the lead got hot enough to liquefy and melt out of the cases before the round got hot enough to rupture. It was a sad sound hearing all that ammo burn up!