susieqz said:well, swop, what's your answer then?
susieqz said:i shoot for fun. doesn't anybody else just like shooting?
DUMB NEWBIE QUESTION: I read somewhere that after about 3 months it starts degrading, so for possible defensive use you should only use new ammo... but in the thread I see people saying they want a year's or even three year's worth. So what's the story, is the stockpile just for the range? Or ???????
To starve the fire of fuel, he threw burning debris and exploding ammunition through the large holes that had been melted in the fuselage.
driftertank:
It's actually very common for people on burning ships and planes to decide that they have too much ammo and need to get rid of it as expeditiously as possible.
Thank you, that was very helpful. Where I live the temperature can go up to maybe 108 in the summer, but inside my house it would never get above 80 and that's where I expect to keep my ammo, so I guess I'm ok.I shot a skunk with some Cor-bon 9mm stuff that had been in the magazine since about '06. It worked fine so far as I could tell.
I've shot quite a bit of my reloads in the past couple years that I loaded in the 80's thats been fine also. Factory has been no problem, at least back to the 40's. I shot some 1928 30-06 ammo in the 80's that had one bad case, it had a small hole near the base of the case when fired. I stopped shooting that batch, but I think it was a bad case rather than an age related issue.
Heat seems to be one of the things to be concerned about. It causes powder and primers to degrade eventually, and high enough heat is cause to stop using ammo according to the .mil info I've seen.
Saw this linked elsewhere when the question came up. Read all the way through, not just the first post by freerider04. In this case "magazine" isnt what you put in a gun, its the storage container for ammo.
http://www.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=3&f=16&t=335679
I would say when you put the books in cardboard boxes to store in an outbuilding to make room you may have too much. Not to mention if you wake up thinking your hubby is getting friendly in the night only to discover rounds have rolled off the storage shelf over your bed.When you stack it in every nook and cranny, then start stacking and storing to a point FAA makes you put lights on top of the stack...