Vacuum Seal Ammo ?

Sparky55

If a person were to vacuum seal ammo would it go off after you took it out of the vacuum sealed bag if all of the air (oxygen) was absent from the inside of the cartridge?

hillbille

I don't think any home or even commercial vacuum sealer could extract all the oxygen from around the ammo let alone inside the shells. maybe theoretically it could.

Hangfire

Gunpowder and priming compound have their own oxidizer, and don't require atmospheric oxygen.. That's why you can fire underwater, or in a vacuum..

Mobuck

As Hangfire said, no problem.
for the last couple of winters I've been shooting vacuum sealed ammo(stored that way since the beginning of the "Reign of Zero")

Bottom Gun

I vacuum seal my ammo for storage by filling ammo cans and leaving them in the sun with the lids open. After the can heats up, I close it and bring it inside. When the can cools, it will be vacuum sealed provided you have a gasket in the lid. I?ve been doing that for decades and never had a problem.

11b6r

Both black powder and smokeless powder have stored chemically in their molecules their own oxidizer. Does not need atmospheric oxygen.

andrewsw16

quote:Originally posted by 11b6r
Both black powder and smokeless powder have stored chemically in their molecules their own oxidizer. Does not need atmospheric oxygen.

Yup. I saw that also in an answer to the question of whether a standard cartridge and gun would function in outer space. The answer is, "Yes". In fact, try to imagine bullet performance without gravity or air drag. [:D]

beantownshootah

quote:Originally posted by Sparky55
If a person were to vacuum seal ammo would it go off after you took it out of the vacuum sealed bag if all of the air (oxygen) was absent from the inside of the cartridge?


Obviously, ammo isn't going to go off by itself if its sitting in a sealed container.

The answer to your question is that once you took it out of the container it would fire fine with no issue whatsoever. (Btw, the "spam" can ammo typically is vacuum sealed; obviously that works fine.

The reason is that the gunpowder itself contains, in dry chemical form, all the oxygen necessary for the gunpowder to combust.

A standard cartridge will fire fine underwater, or even in the vacuum of space.