15 years is hardly perishable, I've fired ammo with headstamps from the 1930s 20 years ago. Check for corrosion around the primer pocket and case mouth by the bullet. Military storage in airtight metal containers, the carry boxes and sardine cans crated in wood provides greater protection from the elements than if kept loose in a sock on a concrete floor. Commercial cardboard boxes with styrofoam blocks for the individual cartridges are designed to provide minimum protection. After ammo is so packaged it goes into brown cardboard casing crates and then to mass distribution warehouses without climate control until eventually sent to the middle men and then retail stores. Kept indefinately alongside the 10 Commandments from the Raiders of the Lost Ark. If the ammos was found by a magnet hunter in a belt pouch among the skeletal remains of a soldier kia then it would be prudent not to shoot it. If curious, pull the bullet. Dump the powder to see if it ignites with a flame. Chamber the now empty still primed case to see if that "fires." Ammo does not expire like milk or bread. Compliments on your thoughtful precaution.
👍👍 Most old ammo is fine as long as it doesn’t get wet. Thanks Rustic
No problem, Lance! Thanks for watching!
Great video Rustic, thanks!
Thanks man, and thanks for watching!
15 years is hardly perishable, I've fired ammo with headstamps from the 1930s 20 years ago. Check for corrosion around the primer pocket and case mouth by the bullet. Military storage in airtight metal containers, the carry boxes and sardine cans crated in wood provides greater protection from the elements than if kept loose in a sock on a concrete floor. Commercial cardboard boxes with styrofoam blocks for the individual cartridges are designed to provide minimum protection. After ammo is so packaged it goes into brown cardboard casing crates and then to mass distribution warehouses without climate control until eventually sent to the middle men and then retail stores. Kept indefinately alongside the 10 Commandments from the Raiders of the Lost Ark. If the ammos was found by a magnet hunter in a belt pouch among the skeletal remains of a soldier kia then it would be prudent not to shoot it. If curious, pull the bullet. Dump the powder to see if it ignites with a flame. Chamber the now empty still primed case to see if that "fires." Ammo does not expire like milk or bread. Compliments on your thoughtful precaution.