For corrosive ammo, it’s the primer that is corrosive, right?
So long as the case is boxer primered, could you pull the bullet, dump the powder, press out the primer and load a new, non-corrosive primer in the case, dump the powder back in and load the bullet on top?
Just curious as I’ve got some 40s head stamped .30-06 M2 AP that I have no doubt is corrosive and I am a lazy SOB and hate cleaning guns after shooting corrosive ammo. I don’t have a lot, so I figure if I am going to shoot brake rotors or whatever with it some day, might as well swap the primers. Rather than having to scrub my Garand after shooting 2 or 3 clips as it’s the only corrosive .30-06 I have (in fact the only corrosive ammo I have other than several boxes of 7.62x25, but at least my M57 is super easy to pull apart and scrub out. )
So long as the case is boxer primered, could you pull the bullet, dump the powder, press out the primer and load a new, non-corrosive primer in the case, dump the powder back in and load the bullet on top?
Just curious as I’ve got some 40s head stamped .30-06 M2 AP that I have no doubt is corrosive and I am a lazy SOB and hate cleaning guns after shooting corrosive ammo. I don’t have a lot, so I figure if I am going to shoot brake rotors or whatever with it some day, might as well swap the primers. Rather than having to scrub my Garand after shooting 2 or 3 clips as it’s the only corrosive .30-06 I have (in fact the only corrosive ammo I have other than several boxes of 7.62x25, but at least my M57 is super easy to pull apart and scrub out. )