Well I've shot WW11 ammo with no problem,i'm 70 so I think the ammo I got will be ok as long as it's stored properly.
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When would you rotate out ammo?
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I store all of my ammo in an Altoids can. It's .22lr so it doesn't take a big box.
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If ammo is stored correctly it will last a long time. I have ammo (.45ACP) from WW1 that I would shoot. I keep it unfired as a curio however.
Ammo that is stored indoors at home: I'll put some in my carry gun up to about 40 years after it was made.
However, once I start actually carrying it, exposing the cartridges to great changes in temperature and humidity and with lots of movement and vibration that may break down the gunpowder granules, THEN I try to burn it up at the range within a year or two.
I don't always follow my own advice in this matter, especially for really expensive ammo.
But finally last week I shot up my second-to-last Glaser Safety Slug that I bought in the early 1990s, and had been carrying (either on my body or in a speedloader in my vehicle's glove box) for the last 3 or 4 years.
It fired reliably at the range, in practice.
Now, I've got the LAST Glaser from that 1990's purchase in my carry revolver now. I'll try to remember to shoot it to use it up by 2020.
I also periodically test my ammo. I have a nearly full box of S&W .38 spl +P loads made in the early 1980s.
I will carry them, and sometimes I shoot them at the range just to make sure they still work.
They always do, so then I'm comfortable getting some more out of that box in my gun cabinet and putting them in my carry gun / spare speedloader.
However, once I start actually carrying it, exposing the cartridges to great changes in temperature and humidity and with lots of movement and vibration that may break down the gunpowder granules, THEN I try to burn it up at the range within a year or two.
I don't always follow my own advice in this matter, especially for really expensive ammo.
But finally last week I shot up my second-to-last Glaser Safety Slug that I bought in the early 1990s, and had been carrying (either on my body or in a speedloader in my vehicle's glove box) for the last 3 or 4 years.
It fired reliably at the range, in practice.
Now, I've got the LAST Glaser from that 1990's purchase in my carry revolver now. I'll try to remember to shoot it to use it up by 2020.
I also periodically test my ammo. I have a nearly full box of S&W .38 spl +P loads made in the early 1980s.
I will carry them, and sometimes I shoot them at the range just to make sure they still work.
They always do, so then I'm comfortable getting some more out of that box in my gun cabinet and putting them in my carry gun / spare speedloader.
HOWEVER, for semi-auto pistols, I try not to re-use a round that has been chambered and rechambered several times. The impact of the bullet hitting the feed ramp when being rammed into the chamber can loosen the crimp and case set-back of the bullet and compression of the powder (which you won't notice, because a fraction of a second after it happened, it was fully seated in the chamber and out of your sight).
After a good expensive hollowpoint round has been cycled in and out of my gun's chamber a few times, I make a point to pop it off at the range and replace it with a fresh one out of the box.
After a good expensive hollowpoint round has been cycled in and out of my gun's chamber a few times, I make a point to pop it off at the range and replace it with a fresh one out of the box.
As long as it hasn't grown green hair.... I'll shoot it
In for info. The ammo in my safe is used and replaced and I have a moisture thingy in there. But what I do wonder about is my carry. If I'm wet it's wet, If I'm hot it's hot ..... I rarely even unholster it. I will say the other day that I did unholster it and noticed a lot of lint on it. Guess I need to be watching that more closely. But I have started to wonder about the carry ammo in it.
On a similiar note where do people store ammo? Inside climate control or say in a garage?
I've had the same 9 rounds for 20 years.
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