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The wife and I found a few shotgun shells. And some 45 colt. None have been shot. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by Jerb322@lemmy.world to c/magnetfishing@feddit.uk

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm kind of surprised you were able to pull these up.

Some shotgun shells use steel shot, so those would be magnetic for sure ... but a lot of them don't -- I see at least a few slugs in there, which shouldn't have any magnetic parts in them. And the regular cartridges too -- all the metal in them should be brass, copper, and lead ... none of which are magenetic. Maybe the anvil of the primer is steel? But that's so tiny...

Edit: got curious and tested it out myself. Yeah, while most of the shell isn't attracted at all, a magnet is sticking to the primers.