Cleaning and organizing today. Wonder how long I’ve had these? 
Old Ammo
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Based on the packaging and price it has been a year or three or twenty-five.
Rpg
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That’s pretty new stuff, all things considered.
YeshuaIsa53
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Not as long as you are going to have them...
AJ
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Cleaning and organizing today. Wonder how long I’ve had these?
The date is probably in the price sticker if you know how to read it. My Wife use to work for K Mart and that is what they did. I see no reason other retailers would be much different.
taz666
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April 5, 1961 ... maybe?
gwpercle
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For the longest time my only 357 magnum brass cases , a box of 50 , once fired , and left at the public shooting range ... for me to find ...
were in a box just like that ... at least 50 years old ... I'm thinking it was 1973 when I found them ... never loaded them ... last year I bought 200 brand new Starline ... to develop some AA#5 357 loads ...
I might still have that box ... when it warms up , I'll go look !
Keep the box ... Retro is Super Cool !
Gary
were in a box just like that ... at least 50 years old ... I'm thinking it was 1973 when I found them ... never loaded them ... last year I bought 200 brand new Starline ... to develop some AA#5 357 loads ...
I might still have that box ... when it warms up , I'll go look !
Keep the box ... Retro is Super Cool !
Gary
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Inside flap on the box should have the date of manufacture in a coded format. The Western date codes have been deciphered and can be found online. That would tell you when they were made, as to when you bought them? If you bought them new then that price label might tell and give you a good idea how quickly product moved from the manufacturer to a sales floor...........
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I had a pretty large collection of vintage ammo and have started shooting it all up over the last few years. I have not had a single failure to fire - even with ammo over 80 years old. I actually get a big thrill shooting it. Some of it I will hold onto for a while.
I also hunt with 12 gauge shot shells (many old paper hulls) that are from the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's. The Pheasants never know the difference.
I also hunt with 12 gauge shot shells (many old paper hulls) that are from the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's. The Pheasants never know the difference.
Amen to that........when I shoot some of my "old" ammo....It works just fine.....Ammo has no expiration date if stored halfway decent.
Alk8944
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That's not "old" ammunition, it only dates to the 1960s or 1970s. I don't consider guns or ammunition to be old until they are at least prior to WWII or how old I am. The only ammunition I have ever has problems with related to age were some black powder .32 S&W cartridges that had to be prior to 1920.
Yeah, I bought ammo packaged like that in the early 70s before WW switched to the white boxes with the red/blue logo and print.
AJ
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It all goes bang, when the trigger is pulled.
'll that stuff is new. For my 8 mm Kropotcheck the newest ammo I have was made in 1926. Some was made in 1916, some ????. Some (most) go "BANG", some go "bang", and a few only go phfffft. Same rifle, same ammo, in 1988 I shot an NRA comp for my M-1 and scored a 454 out of a possible 500. Not bad for a rifle made in 1886, and ammo made before the Crash of "29".
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