Around 100 shogun shells, and a few 45 colt. Magnet fishing fun!
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The base is magnetic. 45 Colts are steal cases. Not brass.
Edit: Looking at them again.. the shotgun shells have steal shot in them. I think the bases are brass. The 45's are steal cased.
Steel cases. That's unusual. Interesting...
Steel ammo cases are still produced & used today, though mostly for bulk practice ammo
I wasn't aware. I left gunsmithing in 2007 when I lived in Belgium, and back then. the only steel cased ammo you could find was cheap-ass Soviet stuff from way back when. Nobody in their right mind would buy that stuff even if it had been available new: it's really rough on the chambers and it doesn't seal properly.
The cheap Russian stuff was and still is lacquered steel cases. They had to do that to prevent rust. And it will coat a gun's chamber when the barrel heats up after a few shots. Most shooters don't clean their guns immediately to remove the lacquer buildup after shooting stops. So the lacquer hardens and becomes almost impossible to remove without a jackhammer. It can be a beeotch to remove after it hardens. In the west we don't use lacquer, we plate the cases with a thin coat of brass or sometimes nickel.
Almost all shot shells are now steel rimmed bases with a coating of brass.
For autoloaders, sure. But most .45 colt firearms are going to be revolvers where it isn't an issue.
Also, even when it comes to autoloaders, "steel" is an umbrella term that encompasses a huge variety of materials. Not all steel is hard enough to damage all firearms.
I don't buy it all the time. But sometimes I do because I just want to feed a cheap gun some cheap ammo.
Something at the bottom is very attracted to my magnet. I don't really know guns and ammo.
It's bothering me that you spell steel like that. May i ask why you do that?
Because they're stolen.
I didn't proof read before I hit send. My bad
Weird. I thought maybe the primers had steel in them, though after checking them it makes sense that they do not.
I found some RP (Remington Peters headstamp) brass and mine is not magnetic whatsoever and I didn't think Remington made any steel case ammo. Not doubting you or anything, I'm sure they made and discontinued many lines of ammo since the RP stamp started being used in 1960.
I checked shotgun shells I had on hand and all were magnetic, even the ones with brass outsides so I guess they are coated with brass?
Not sure if any of this info was useful, but I had assumed at least the silver colored primers had steel cups and that brass shotgun shells were not magnetic, but now I learned I was wrong about both those things.