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<blockquote data-quote="ldp4570" data-source="post: 705619" data-attributes="member: 5168"><p>The military does the same thing, but the military i.e. ammunition peculier equipment A.P.E. has a blast shield around it for safety. As to cleaning your own ammo, I see no issues with it.</p><p></p><p>Now to storage inside a safe, unless there is a fire it isn't going to happen. Even if one cartridge goes, the chance of it propigating another is slim, unless a primer is struck. Think about it, your on the range, and you just burned through three mags(15rnds ea.) of 9MM ball, and you load a fourth mag, chamber a round, and holster the weapon or lay it down on the bench. Even as hot as the barrel is its not going to cook off that chambered round. It takes alot of ammo fired very fast to heat up a barrel enough to cook off a round in the chamber. In 20+yrs in the military 10 Infantry, remainder in the ammunition field I've seen three cookoff's. Two were M16's(yep before the three round burst switch) and a .50cal M2. The two M16's had been on the same day by a couple of clowns. They both had rifles and had a large quantity of ammo that had to be fired( This was ordered by their commander). After around five mags on full auto both firing almost at the same time had cookoff failures where the brass casings exploded partway into the chamber throwing brass back into both of their faces. The .50M2 had a runaway due to improper headspace and timing. The soldier behind the weapon didn't know he could twist the belt stopping the runaway, and instead stayed behind the machinegun getting fraged in the family jewels. So it takes alot of heat to set off cartridges by fire or firing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ldp4570, post: 705619, member: 5168"] The military does the same thing, but the military i.e. ammunition peculier equipment A.P.E. has a blast shield around it for safety. As to cleaning your own ammo, I see no issues with it. Now to storage inside a safe, unless there is a fire it isn't going to happen. Even if one cartridge goes, the chance of it propigating another is slim, unless a primer is struck. Think about it, your on the range, and you just burned through three mags(15rnds ea.) of 9MM ball, and you load a fourth mag, chamber a round, and holster the weapon or lay it down on the bench. Even as hot as the barrel is its not going to cook off that chambered round. It takes alot of ammo fired very fast to heat up a barrel enough to cook off a round in the chamber. In 20+yrs in the military 10 Infantry, remainder in the ammunition field I've seen three cookoff's. Two were M16's(yep before the three round burst switch) and a .50cal M2. The two M16's had been on the same day by a couple of clowns. They both had rifles and had a large quantity of ammo that had to be fired( This was ordered by their commander). After around five mags on full auto both firing almost at the same time had cookoff failures where the brass casings exploded partway into the chamber throwing brass back into both of their faces. The .50M2 had a runaway due to improper headspace and timing. The soldier behind the weapon didn't know he could twist the belt stopping the runaway, and instead stayed behind the machinegun getting fraged in the family jewels. So it takes alot of heat to set off cartridges by fire or firing. [/QUOTE]
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