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- Sun May 14, 2023 7:50 am
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: How to tell the age of ammo and does it matter?
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Re: How to tell the age of ammo and does it matter?
Like Tex1961 and Howdy, I have some stuff that is really old. Bunch of US and Korean .30-06 from the 50s and 60s, Brit .303 from the 40s, but the leader is Turkish 8mm Mauser with dated headstamps from the mid 1930s. I can pretty much guarantee that it was not in a truly climate-controlled storage, but apparently was kept dry all the time. So far, it all goes bang (and I have fired 100s of rounds). Also have some 20 Gauge shotgun shells I bought in the early 70s (buy it cheap and stack it deep) and they work just fine. As stated by many here, the real key is keeping it dry.