Humidity resistant 22lr plinking ammo?
Bill J.
plinking? I like CCI ammunition, but at $6 per 100 and up it's too
expensive for plinking.
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SaPeIsMa
"Bill J." <nol...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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# What is the most humidity resistant 22lr ammo that is cheap enough for
# plinking? I like CCI ammunition, but at $6 per 100 and up it's too
# expensive for plinking.
#
I store a lot of my bulk .22 in old plastic Peanut Butter jars with a couple
of pouches of silicone dessicant
The lids close tight enough that it's not been a problem
Sheldon
"Bill J." <nol...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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# What is the most humidity resistant 22lr ammo that is cheap enough for
# plinking? I like CCI ammunition, but at $6 per 100 and up it's too
# expensive for plinking.
#
Why humidity resistant? Are you planning on storing it in a steam room?
Chasseur
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# "Bill J." <nol...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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# # What is the most humidity resistant 22lr ammo that is cheap enough for
# # plinking? I like CCI ammunition, but at $6 per 100 and up it's too
# # expensive for plinking.
# #
#
# I store a lot of my bulk .22 in old plastic Peanut Butter jars with a
couple
# The lids close tight enough that it's not been a problem
Try vacuum packing your ammo. Works well on game meat and ammo also. It will
even do the trick with seldom used handguns.
Chasseur
Canada
Rubaiyat of Omar Bradley
# What is the most humidity resistant 22lr ammo that is cheap enough for
# plinking?
It would be helpful if you would specify:
1. Which types of 22lr ammo have you determined are *not* humidity
resistant?
2. How did you determine this?
sta...@prolynx.com
# plinking? I like CCI ammunition, but at $6 per 100 and up it's too
# expensive for plinking.
#
~shrug~
There's no sealant or really tight crimp on rimfire and no real way to
"weather-proof" it other than store it out of the rain.
Stan
DocGlock
# What is the most humidity resistant 22lr ammo that is cheap enough for
# plinking? I like CCI ammunition, but at $6 per 100 and up it's too
# expensive for plinking.
#
Bluehawk99
"If $6 per 100 is too expensive, you need to take up another hobby."
The OP is correct...six bucks is too expensive for plain ol .22LR ammo
when you consider not too long ago it was $10/500 on sale...PMC
Zappers comes to mind!!!!!
Rubaiyat of Omar Bradley
# The OP is correct...six bucks is too expensive for plain ol .22LR ammo
# when you consider not too long ago it was $10/500 on sale...
Where can I get it for close to that price today?
sta...@prolynx.com
#
# �"If $6 per 100 is too expensive, you need to take up another hobby."
# The OP is correct...six bucks is too expensive for plain ol .22LR ammo
# Zappers comes to mind!!!!!
#
They were selling it for $75/brick just recently at the shows. "Not
too long ago" is correct, but the dollar has dropped and everything
has gone up in price. Retail is around $5-6/50 for the name-brand not-
promo stuff now. And some manufacturers have gone to 40 round boxes
instead of 50 round boxes, check that brick before you buy! Be
prepared for a big crimp in your plinking budget.
Stan
flattrack38
I'm not sure why you think that you need to make .22LR ammo humidity
resistant. I found a half box of those cheap Federal 550 pack that I
know was 5+ years old, so I took them out to burn them up. Each and
every one of them went bang, just like when they were new. I didn't
even have them stored well. High humidity and 90 deg. in the summer,
and a cool 50 deg in the winter.
haraoi_conal
# I'm not sure why you think that you need to make .22LR ammo humidity
# resistant. I found a half box of those cheap Federal 550 pack that I
# know was 5+ years old, so I took them out to burn them up. Each and
# every one of them went bang, just like when they were new. I didn't
# even have them stored well. High humidity and 90 deg. in the summer,
# and a cool 50 deg in the winter.
#
I stored a case of Hansen .22LR in an un-air-conditioned attic in my
parents house for a decade. High humidities, temperatures about
120DegF in the summer. (No other choice at the time.) That ammo is
still the most accurate I have shot. (Can't afford Eley.)
Pistol_Pete
> ...
Peanut butter jars is a great idea. Thank you! Just last week a 500
rnd box came open in my trunk. Man, those little boogers went ALL
OVER. And they like to hide in crevices that are too small for human
fingers. As soon as I read your post I dumped all my twenty-two shells
into peanut butter jars. I put the box-tops in with the ammo so I know
which is which.
Gunner Asch
<cowar...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> ...
Check Walmart
R.L. Horn
<haraoi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
# I stored a case of Hansen .22LR in an un-air-conditioned attic in my
# parents house for a decade.
Only a decade? I've shot .22s that were significantly older (and stored in
similar conditions) with similar results. Nothing special either, just
plain old Remington/Peters/Winchester HV plinking fodder. Between the waxy
bullet lube and the unbroken head, they *should* be pretty well sealed up.
Mind you, .22s were just plain better back then...and more expensive. Seems
like most of the (50-rd) boxes sold for something between fifty cents and a
dollar, which was far from cheap in the '60s and '70s. Inflation adjusted,
you're probably talking about 3-6 bucks.
[MODERATOR: Not just other countries. DC too. Okay, so, that's
a different country too... ]
SaPeIsMa
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#
# Peanut butter jars is a great idea. Thank you! Just last week a 500
# rnd box came open in my trunk. Man, those little boogers went ALL
# OVER. And they like to hide in crevices that are too small for human
# fingers. As soon as I read your post I dumped all my twenty-two shells
# into peanut butter jars. I put the box-tops in with the ammo so I know
# which is which.
#
I also include the production data from any ammo boxes with any ammo I store
that way
And since I started reloading, I also use the jars for various reloads
Makes for cleaner carry to and from the range
Peter Franks
# On Dec 15, 10:03 pm, "SaPeIsMa" <SaPeI...@HotMail.com> wrote:
# > ...
#
# Peanut butter jars is a great idea. Thank you! Just last week a 500
# rnd box came open in my trunk. Man, those little boogers went ALL
# OVER. And they like to hide in crevices that are too small for human
# fingers. As soon as I read your post I dumped all my twenty-two shells
# into peanut butter jars. I put the box-tops in with the ammo so I know
# which is which.
If you travel across borders (e.g. Mexico), you had either take a
different vehicle or make sure you find EVERY ONE. There have been
instances of people getting into a mess of trouble by having a couple of
cartridges laying around, even accidentally...
Gunner Asch
<peter....@cox.net> wrote:
> ...
YES!!! Indeed. Which is why, when I go go Mexico to service
machinery...I rent a car and drive IT over and to the clients.
Its nearly impossible to find all the expended brass rolling around
under the seat, in the bed, etc etc
Gunner
Gunner Asch
<ne...@eastcheap.org> wrote:
> ...
Ive got a few cases of Remington standard...opened one about 6 months
ago..manufacturing date is Nov, 1983
Still shoots just fine.
Gunner
Doug White
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# On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:22:04 +0000 (UTC), "R.L. Horn"
# <ne...@eastcheap.org> wrote:
#
# > ...
#
# Ive got a few cases of Remington standard...opened one about 6 months
# ago..manufacturing date is Nov, 1983
#
# Still shoots just fine.
My dad bought a couple cases of .22 ammo (Remington) from the DCM in the
mid 50's. I think the going rate was a penny a round. I shot up the
last of it in the late 1970's, and it still shot fine. That's close to
25 years. It was stored in the originally packaging, but this was in New
Mexico, where the whole state is a dessicant.
On the other hand, a guy in one of my clubs had some ammo from the 40's.
About half of them would hang-fire, with a good fraction of a second
between the hammer falling & the bang. I was shooting next to him in a
league match, and it was driving me nuts. I swapped him some good ammo
for it so I could use it for demonstration purposes in my pistol classes.
He was from Maine, and the stuff had probably been stored unprotected
where it was failry humid.
Doug White
Martin H. Eastburn
cook them in the oven (150 or what the package says )
and put one in each jar. Failing that - a paper towel
with rice (dry) in it. Rice will absorb moisture - good for
salt shakers.
Martin
R.L. Horn
wrote:
# On the other hand, a guy in one of my clubs had some ammo from the 40's.
# About half of them would hang-fire, with a good fraction of a second
# between the hammer falling & the bang.
There were big improvements in primer and powder stability and reliability
over the course of the '40s for some reason. :)
Tom S.
# On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:20:55 +0000 (UTC), Doug White<gwh...@alum.mit.edu>
# wrote:
#
# # On the other hand, a guy in one of my clubs had some ammo from the 40's.
# # About half of them would hang-fire, with a good fraction of a second
# # between the hammer falling& the bang.
#
# There were big improvements in primer and powder stability and reliability
# over the course of the '40s for some reason. :)
#
IIRC: The primers in the majority of US WW2 ammo (M1 Carbine being an
exception) was still using corrosive chemicals. By the Korean War, the
US had converted to non-corrosives, but they still had large caches of
the old stuff.
Bluehawk99
( when you consider not too long ago it was $10/500 on sale...)
"Where can I get it for close to that price today?"
Beats me...I have about 5,000 rounds of various makes saved up from
when it was that cheap and I use it sparingly with the way prices are
today. I refuse to pay the prices local dealers want and I won't deal
with them when they scalp customers this way!