Stock Piling

[JTKelly]

When you are loading up on a sale or planning all the bug outs and bug ins and hidden cashes, think it over and make a good plan to deal with the fact all this stuff DOES go back given the opportunity and enough time. Brass tarnishes and corrodes. Lead oxidizes, copper jackets tarnish and corrode. Kept dry and uncontaminated, primers are probably actually the LAST thing to give you a problem. Powder in the container you bought it in, probably would last decades longer than loaded ammo stored in a magazine or clip.

 

[92FSTech]

If you keep powder, components, or loaded ammo properly stored in a cool dry place, it'll outlive most of us.

 

[Joniki]

I have ammo that is 60 years old and it still goes bang every time.

 

[Magyars]

Ammo cans. That's what they were designed to do.

 

[firecadet613]

So you're saying you don't have a stock pile...

 

[Mongo59]

My ammo can is an old Vulcan Hart industrial pressure cooker. It is stainless steel and designed like a vault. I put the ammo in the air tight vault with a little candle in a glass jar. Light the candle and close the door and all the oxygen goes bye bye.

If I blow myself up at least I had good ammo the rest of my life...

 

[dieselrealtor]

Ammo cans. That's what they were designed to do.

Metal ones, with a tested good seal

 

[JTKelly]

I have ammo that is 60 years old and it still goes bang every time.

Most of it will.

Some of it doesn't. Some of it will but just looks like it wouldn't. You don't always know them apart when you are buying it. 60 years later it is easy to see, "I should a bought more of THIS instead of That."

Mark this thread so 60 years from now you can come back for your "I told you so's" or admissions as the case may be.

 

[JTKelly]

So you're saying you don't have a stock pile...

I'm saying exactly what I said. I can only tell it, I can't understand it for you.

 

[firecadet613]

I'm saying exactly what I said. I can only tell it, I can't understand it for you.

I haven't heard of ammo not going bang, even from WW2, have you?

Your post is discussing a non issue... we will go bad before the ammo does...

Sounds like you don't want to stock factory ammo for fear it'll go bad...

 

[JAL]

I have ammo that is 60 years old and it still goes bang every time.

^^^^^^^^
This

We shot .30-06, 7.62 NATO, and .45 ACP ammo in the military that was ancient. As in 50 years old ancient. Never a problem.

 

[Bassat]

I have personally had ammo that was over 20 years old, in the original box, in the basement. All of it looked practically new. All of it went bang. In 1977, in an attic in Germany, I found a stash of loose M1 (30-.06) ammo. At minimum, that ammo sat on the floor, in an unheated, un-air conditioned attic for 32 years. It was a tad tarnished, but looked useable. It all fired just fine. Ammo will outlive you. Buy as much as you can afford.

 

[Expat]

I bought some of the old ammo that CMP sold several years ago. Some of it looked crappy but all fired okay.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I have ammo that is 60 years old and it still goes bang every time.

I have some from the 1930's that goes bang every time too.

 

[COOPADUP]

Most ammo cans have a rubber seal built into the lids.
As a precaution, you can always toss in a desiccant pack.

 

[shibumiseeker]

I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here. Are you trying to say “don’t stockpile?”

Regardless. 30 years ago, I started building ammo cans with a box of every caliber I shoot. This is before I reloaded as much as I do now. I have about 25 of these cans left. Every year on New Year’s I open one, put all in my shooting shack, and throughout the year shoot most of it. It comes out of the ammo can looking like the day I put it in, and it has all shot just fine.

Buy it when it’s cheaper, or you can afford it. Store it well, then don’t worry about when there are these shortages. If more people did this, there wouldn’t be shortages.

 

[indyjohn]

Thread should be moved to Survival and Disaster Preparedness room.

 

[Sigblitz]

I had some old 40s&w that came with an old pistol. It was all bad. It eats everything else.
Yes, ammo goes bad.

 

[1nderbeard]

I'm not saying I have a cache of ammo. I'm just saying if I did it would be in plastic or old milsurp cases with rubber seals. I would also probably toss in one of those gel packs that absorb water. Sometimes I might just leave it surrounded by cardboard to absorb moisture with a few extra gel packs.
That is, if I had any ammo caches. Maybe one day.

 

[shibumiseeker]

I had some old 40s&w that came with an old pistol. It was all bad. It eats everything else.
Yes, ammo goes bad.

No. Ammo can go bad. It doesn’t mean it will go bad. And some ammo is bad the day it is manufactured.