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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (shadowrn@*********.com)
Subject: Bullets Underwater
Date: Sat Feb 10 22:35:01 2001
You know, cowboys and the like used to toss out bullets that had gotten wet,
back in the 1870's and 1880's. I would have thought that in the past 120-130
years we would have solved that problem.

</sarcasm>

Normal bullets are sealed. You can dunk them, and I expect even leave them
there for a time, and they will shoot FINE. It is when you are bringing
bullets to a significant depth that you have problems, and that is because
the water pressure works to overwhelm the seal of shell to bullet.
Military-grade bullets (if there ARE such things!!) may be somehow better
sealed. Adding another layer might also help, but why in hell would that
additional seal need to be combustable/flammable?

C'mon, guys, I used to rely on y'all to -teach- me this stuff...


The Wyrm Ouroboros
Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Scott W)
Subject: Bullets Underwater
Date: Sun Feb 11 00:05:01 2001
> Normal bullets are sealed. You can dunk them, and I expect even
leave them there for a time, and they will shoot FINE. It is when
you are bringing bullets to a significant depth that you have
problems, and that is because the water pressure works to overwhelm
the seal of shell to bullet.

Yeah, we've covered that. But thanks.

> C'mon, guys, I used to rely on y'all to -teach- me this stuff...
> The Wyrm Ouroboros

And I'm relying on them to teach me now. Thankfully, they've been
more than polite about it.

====-Boondocker

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Message no. 3
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth)
Subject: Bullets Underwater
Date: Sun Feb 11 06:40:06 2001
According to WyrmOuroboros@***.com, on Sun, 11 Feb 2001 the word on the
street was...

> Military-grade bullets (if there ARE such things!!) may be somehow better
> sealed. Adding another layer might also help, but why in hell would that
> additional seal need to be combustable/flammable?

That was for _caseless_ rounds. If you have a non-cumbustible sealing
around a caseless round, the seal would remain in the chamber and need to
be removed; this type of seal is generally known as a "cartridge case" :)

For SR purposes certainly, rounds with combustible cases would be equivalent
to caseless rounds, IMHO.

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