Dud Ammo?

[Bassin'ForLife]

I am currently sitting on about 380 rounds of .308 surplus. It looks like it got wet at some point, and makes a "click" when you pull the trigger, instead of the more generally accepted "bang". I've had 2 rounds that decided they would fire, and the rest out of the 2 boxes have been duds. What do I do with it now? Is the brass/bullets worth anything to a reloader, or is it too much of a hassle to take them apart, deprime, etc.?

 

[TonyT]

If you relaod then pulling the pullets with one of those inertia bullet pullers will not damage th bullet. I would pull the bullets, discard the powder, carefully deprime the cases and relaod them with my favorite recipe using the original bullets.

 

[1mathom1]

From experience....if the bullets are lacquered in the cases....you may need to give them a really good whack with the inertia puller but you can do it.

 

[Bassin'ForLife]

Thanks for the input guys.

 

[TonyT]

If the bullets are lacquered or sealed into the case mouth you can break the seal bu using your seating die adjusted to seat bthe bullet about a milimeter deeper - I assume that the case mouth is not heavilly crimped into the bullet.

 

[dennishoddy]

I use a collet type bullet puller by RCBS. Sucks em out and does not hurt the bullet.