bad??? i'm STILL shooting WWII Turkish ammo... bad??? i'm STILL shooting WWII Turkish ammo...Unless the ammo is heavily tarnished or the cases are/were submerged, I don’t understand where the problem is. Ammo doesn’t get an expiration date on it because it can last a very long time if stored in a reasonable manner.
This is not to say these guys don’t have piles of crap ammo, but I don’t get where they can say it’s expired. Unfit perhaps...expired though? I was at a Milsurp shoot recently and guys were shooting ammo from the 40s...packed during WWII based on the headstamps.
I finally fired it all but for years I used some 7.65 Argentine Mauser ammo dated 1933 and 1934. It was made by FN in Belgium. It would very rarely hang fire but only for an instant. Not really dangerous in a bolt action as long as you are willing to keep the rifle pointed downrange until it fires or until you are certain it will not.
Very old ammo would be a possible danger in automatic weapons due to hang fires but it really has to be old or stored in bad conditions to be dangerous.
/mark
Give it to the CMP
What the hell is he talking about? People use decades old ammo all the time.
we destroy a lot of [our] ammo, because it just goes bad,”
I’m still shooting ammo I bought in 1970! Only the .22 seems to degrade over time, and it takes a long time!
Only some .32 commercial ammo made about 1945 seems to have gone bad.
I inherited all the ammo at Long Binh Depot in 1972. We destroyed 100’s of tons of it.