Dud primers

[Emri]

Ermi:

I was told in an earlier posting than FN 57 was most likely corrosive so I didn't take a chance. As I torched the primers, I held a piece of steel (cleaned the surface with a file) over 6 or 7 cases as the primer went off. The next day, it was rusty & today heavily rusted!

I have tested more than a few different kinds using the steel plate method, but fired them in a rifle. I may well have been confused about the FN57.

Sorry,

Emri

[DaveHH]

a while back from Widner's. It was cheap but about 1 in 5 was a no-go. I changed firing pin springs in my BYF 44 and it made no difference. I think that a lot of this old ammunition was abused in storage and the sketchy ignition is the result.

[Dave]

Carbine ammo was non-corrisive cause the gas piston is not readily removable for cleaning by the troops, it was designed that way for some reason. And for the military to worry about the "long term" storage of ammo during WW11 is ridiculas on their part. They could very well have used any in storage, corrisive, for training and shipped new stuff out for combat. During a major war they just don't worry about waste. They did not switch for the same reason they have not changed many things over the years. The reluctence of the brass to change to new-fangled stuff. We were still using single shot breech loaders in 1894 when most all Europe had adopted magazine rifles.