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Bill Stryker

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Re: Shot a box of ammo from 1972
« Reply #10 on: December 03, 2009, 04:52:58 PM »
My oldest is  several boxes of Remington 7x57 from 1908. They shoot just fine in my Rolling Block. I paid $2 a box for them 40 years ago.

I still have .45 Match ammo dated between 1958 and 1963. They still shoot just fine. I have used quite a bit of 9mm ammo dated 1943. I still have the last two boxes, but until now they shoot well. I think they are Canadian SMG ammo.
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Re: Shot a box of ammo from 1972
« Reply #11 on: December 03, 2009, 05:05:08 PM »
The oldest ammo I ever shot was some Winchester .22s in a blue and yellow box. I had a case head split and blow the extractor out of my 10/22. It still ejected most of the time anyway.
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Re: Shot a box of ammo from 1972
« Reply #12 on: December 03, 2009, 06:07:42 PM »
I have plenty of Mauser Milsurp non-berdan primed 7.65mm ammo manufactured in 1981. Never an issue at all.

Stored in ammo cans and rotate my dessicant packs, as well as keep the Damp-Rid hanging bags in the ammo locker. S. Florida requires any and all extra steps to fight humidity.

Shot some really old 38 Specials from the 1950's in my Ruger Police Service Six, (wish I had that one back),....no problems.

Did, however, have some problems with some 22lr's that were stored in a closet. They were about 30 years old, looked fine but no bang...

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Re: Shot a box of ammo from 1972
« Reply #13 on: December 03, 2009, 09:29:10 PM »
Shot lots of stuff from the 40's, all went well, but corrosive so clean appropriately, now I have powder that are in cans that people would probably pay me for because of the collectability, but I still load it, look for corrosion on the cases, and in the powder tins, the powder should smell a little acidy, but look for rust under the lids.
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Re: Shot a box of ammo from 1972
« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2009, 12:19:51 AM »
About 15 years ago a class 3 dealer friend of mine was shooting German WW1 dated ammo in a German made machine gun.  I think it was 8mm.  He said he had no problems with it.
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