Dismantling ammunition

[ovenpaa]

ken are you volunteering to come over and help or do I need to enlist Eunice and his delicate touch for this?

[Stuck]

Ere mister wot u cowering behind that wall for

[Maggot]

Ere mister wot u cowering behind that wall for

Mik, drop me an email please mate, look at your PMs :cool2:

I have stuff for you but want to avoid the mail if I can

[Stuck]

Oops

Email sent.

[Apphelia]

Here is an interesting one, I have to deactivate some reasonably obscure rimfire and I just cannot cope with the idea of drilling holes in it to shake the powder out, it just seems wrong, the alternatives are not good, a kinetic hammer, alternatively I could devise some form of collet puller.

Suggestions anyone?

If you are OK with destroying the case, how about an adjustable plumber's pipe cutter? They use a hardened steel cutting wheel, so should make mincemeat of it safely.

[ovenpaa]

yes that would work and equally I could just pop the case in a collet chuck on the lathe however I like to keep the rounds looking as close to original as possible for my collection and any such things will destroy either he case or bullet.

[Maggot]

Here is an interesting one, I have to deactivate some reasonably obscure rimfire and I just cannot cope with the idea of drilling holes in it to shake the powder out, it just seems wrong, the alternatives are not good, a kinetic hammer, alternatively I could devise some form of collet puller.

Suggestions anyone?

If you are OK with destroying the case, how about an adjustable plumber's pipe cutter? They use a hardened steel cutting wheel, so should make mincemeat of it safely.

To be fair I dont see how you could grip the thing easilly in any event. There is so little resistance in a little rimmy case it would probably crush it before it cut anything.

I did use one once on a .50 API (I was not allowed/happy with the "I" bit so I did some digging and nipped ths lid off).

Compostion dug out and burned, makes a nice demo as you can pop the nose off and see the penetrator in situ.

One of the problems with pulling military/factory crimped ammo of any type is it shows, but then I guess if like me you are not a purist, it does not matter that much, but a totally mangled example may as well just be a fired case

[Maggot]

I have some 17HMR that is never going to pull with a collet due to he shape of the bullet.

Why bother...I gave you an unfired .17HMR head anyway.... sign01

[kennyc]

ken are you volunteering to come over and help or do I need to enlist Eunice and his delicate touch for this?

leave it to the cannon cocker tongueout
someone mentioned a pipecutter, Chris is right, you would struggle to get enough resistance into the round to allow the wheel to cut,and there is probably not enough space to use pliers on the case to supply resistance as the cutter rollers are almost as wide as an HMR case is long (I'm guessing everyone agrees its not a good idea to crunch the rim end in pliers? sign01 ) they work perfectly well on .223 and .308 though

[Demonic69]

Just fire them off into water Ovenpaa, satisfying and practical