Found inside 50 cals

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Monty

Monty

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About a year or so ago a friend give me about a 35 gallon barrel of once fired 50 Cal casings. Hadn't needed to get into them until now. Upon cleaning with soap and water and rinsing with acetone to clean the inside out, I found what looks like to be wadded up newspaper inside the casings. Anyone ever seen anything like this before or know why newspaper would be in there?
This is what came out of six of them.
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Can you read the newspapers? Curious as to dates and newspaper title. However, I haven't a clue as to "why."
Put them on a mandrel and polish with Brasso.
 
Not sure why any reloaded cartridge would need a filler. If the cartridge was fired, the paper would be ashes. Been reloading for about 45 years.
 
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Possible reasons you might find newspaper in a .50 casing

  1. Making a blank or improvised blank — Historically and in improvised blanks, paper/card or other wadding was sometimes used to contain a small powder charge and produce gas/flash without a projectile. (Modern blanks are manufactured to safe specs; improvised blanks are unsafe.)
  2. Dummy / inert round for drill — Someone might stuff paper into a case to take up space and make an obviously inert round for training or function testing. Commercial inert snap-caps or dummy rounds are the safe alternative.
  3. Temporary filler / shipping protection — Paper used as an inexpensive plug to keep dirt/moisture out of an empty case during storage or transport.
  4. Marker or tamper evidence — Rarely, people insert something visible to mark spent cases, identify rounds that have been altered, or make a visual cue they've been inspected.
 
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