Chain of custody: Who knows what happen to the box of ammo during its short life of 12 years +/-. I don’t, I pulled down 80 8mm Remington mag case I loaded 12 years ago, two of the cases had caked powder that had to be loosened before I could pore from the case. I pulled down 30 300 Win Mag cases, I loaded in 02, I will use the powder, bullets and cases, I will give up on the primers. For me it is not a good habit to load ahead, with the 8mm Remington mag there was nothing to look forward to when shooting them. I am working on a couple of 8mm Wildcats mag type chambers and plan to use the 8mm Rem cases to form the cases, I know, not a good ideal.
Not my business but when I experience a problem with a box/lot of ammo I stop shooting, my curiosity to determine why exceeds my desire to shoot, make smoke and hammer out cases, I have seen some ugly ammo that looked great on the outside, something like looking at hot horse shoes, it does not take me long to look at them, again I do not know what happened to the ammo between being manufactured and fired. I have purchases ammo from business that burned up, I have purchases ammo that was in a business that was flooded. I have acquired ammo from estates that came with high accolades, again, I have a curiosity, my curiosity is greater than my desire to blow something up and or off.
There is no justifiable reason for backing up and doing it again. I had a friend many years ago that was fired for hitting a low underpass, I thought that was a little unfair, I talked to his employer, they said they did not fire him for hitting the underpass, they claimed they fired him for backing up and hitting it again.
F. Guffey
