• 7.62x39mm: the stuff in the black boxes draws a magnet and can't be used at most public ranges in California, so I'll have to shoot it out in the desert someday. The stuff in the yellow boxes doesn't.
  • 7.62x54R, for my Mosin-Nagants
  • A shitload of 40-year-old .22 Short my father gave me when he learned my Mossberg M44 could chamber it.
  • .223 Remington
  • Bandoliers of 8mm Mauser, .30 Carbine and maybe some .30-'06 Springfield in there, on clips. The rifle ammunition draws a magnet.
  • .38 Special
  • .357 Magnum
  • More .38 Special, in a baggie.
  • .44 S&W Special
  • .44 Magnum
  • .40 S&W
  • 9mm Luger
  • .30-'06 Springfield, my favorite cartridge, which I am always buying in my quest for non-ferrous bullets. The three brown boxes at the top are the last of my old non-ferrous Lake City M2 ball.
  • Korean M2 ball, draws a magnet! I have many, many rounds of this stuff, with three steel cans of it under the shelf and a couple bandoliers hanging on another wall.
  • 7.5mm Swiss, for my K-31s. I think this stuff is like $1.00 per round. I had to buy it when the Swiss surplus ammunition I bought drew a magnet.
  • .303 British, for my Enfields.
  • Coffee can full of M1 Garand clips.
  • Crate full of old reloaded ammunition someone gave me.

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This stuff sort of piles up over the years.

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  1. Mustang260ci [deleted] 79 months ago | reply

    Are the RSO's checking your ammo for iron? I've never been asked about iron content.

  2. simonov 79 months ago | reply

    They will at Angeles Ranges, as well as a few other ranges in SoCal. At Angeles Ranges they have magnets glued to the benches, and in the summer at least the RSOs will come by and check your ammunition. The problem is the steel cores have been known to spark on rocks and start brush fires.

    I was just up there this week, in the windy cold rain, and no one was checking.

  3. Awesome Photography 78 months ago | reply

    Wow!!! What are you gonna do with all that ammo, start a cult?

    Just kidding if there's one thing I believe in, It's investing in precious metals ;-)

  4. simonov 78 months ago | reply

    All my life I have tried hard to stay out of jail, so I keep my nose pretty clean. I am absolutely scrupulous in following California's many gun laws.

    But if I am ever arrested for anything - anything at all - I can only imagine the headlines concerning my "vast arsenal" of firearms including "high powered" and "semi-automatic" "military" rifles, my "dozens of" (ie, two dozen) handguns, as well as my "cache" of "thousands of rounds" of "military" ammunition (sadly for the headline writers, I don't possess anything that could remotely be referred to as an "assault rifle," though if it's an especially slow news day that's probably what they would call my SKSes; it's been done before).

    California, baby!

  5. mikey.mike.mikey.mike 37 months ago | reply

    Hey just so you know Wolf is merely steel jacketed air core ammo thats why it draws a magnet. There is no steel core in them.

    www.surplusrifleforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=27836

    He shows a round cut in half clearly hollow and a magnet is suspending it. Sucks that your range is so anal about these things. I've never seen steel jacketed ammo spark though...

    BTW I know this is HP ammo but even the FMJ Wolf ammo have a huge air gap in the nose.

  6. simonov 37 months ago | reply

    The yellow box Wolf does not have a steel core but the black box Wolf does. You can detect it with a magnet; the yellow box Wolf doesn't draw a magnet even though it is also steel cased. You can have two rounds side by side, both steel cased, and one will draw a magnet at the bullet and the other won't.

    Several small fires have been started at Burro Canyon and Angeles Ranges due to sparks from steel core ammunition, and given the fire danger around here, that's not something you want to monkey with.

    A lot of my Korean .30-'06 is steel core as well (brass case).

    Fire danger is much reduced out in the desert, so I reckon it's safe to use the ammunition there.

  7. mikey.mike.mikey.mike 37 months ago | reply

    Black box wolf does not have a steel core did you not see the link I sent you? Look at the pictures. i67.photobucket.com/albums/h298/carteach0/DSCF3017.jpg

    No core. Completely hollow in the nose. Magnet suspending it.

    The poster concluded the jacket was made of steel with a very VERY thin copper plating that he sanded away 0.0008 inches of to reveal the steel jacket around a hollow air point.

    Thus the projectile does attract magnets but has no steel core whatsoever.

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