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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Reads nicely with “explodes”.

I didn’t click on it, but it’s a very popular misconception that ammo EXPLODES.

I guess if you had many tons of it, you might get that, but without the pressure being confined to a sturdy chamber, most individual rounds cook off in a pretty benign way.

It’s not like it takes off at 3,000 feet per second.


6 posted on 05/06/2016 7:40:42 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

Thousands of rounds “cooking-off” does sound pretty unnerving to some people. I’d keep a respectful distance, but that’s just me.


13 posted on 05/06/2016 8:35:53 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ( A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: gaijin

Unlike smokeless powder, black powder cartridges during a fire will explode, but much like a fire cracker and not a bomb.


14 posted on 05/06/2016 8:49:34 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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