Reloading helps, and gives you more accurate and non-corrosive ammo in all cases.
Most of mine are older than I am. Most of those are older than my father.
I have one that's older than my grandfathers, though it shoots a modern, hard-hitting, easily-reloadable cartridge quite accurately.
That would be why I reload. ;-)
And the current primer inventory is sitting at nearly 4000.