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Ammo Storage
Timeline : Need some help here. When did Winchester stop making 452AA? Because the Shotshells were loaded ~ 2 years before this powder was discontinued.
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Back in the day, before Non-Tox was mandated for Waterfowl , we would load up Duck loads, stick in New Paint cans or Coffee cans and take Duck Hunting.
It was not uncommon to leave these "cans" sitting in duck blinds, or in the lift up seats of the shooting benches we used in flooded timber.
It was not uncommon to also to just leave ammo, factory or reloaded, in Deer stands, farm sheds, scattered about the property as folks did in little buildings or "utility boxes" on ranches , farms and so forth.
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Ammo cans were used some, still most folks used ammo cans in the home for ammo, or used one kinda scratched up, dented and all for tool boxes and parts boxes on the farm, ranch, property.
New paint cans , used paint cans , coffee cans just too darn handy to not use for everything - including ammo.
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I was also like others - being about the only time reloaded shells went into a box, was when I competeted, and the Range checked ammo, sealed it , signed it off, and I shot that ammo for that competition.
The rest of the time I would show up with 5 and/ or 10 gal buckets of shotshells to shoot.
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My 12 ga load, and I was shooting about 20k - 25k rounds of 12ga alone at that time, was with 452AA. 2 3/4" hull, to duplicate the Win Factory 2 3/4 dr, 1 1/8 oz loading.
This loading still works. You don't understand, this loading still worked .
These paint cans/ and coffee cans have been in the attic, some out in a shed, some were left in a storage building, tool boxes in trucks, trunks of cars...
...exposed to hot, cold, humid, damp and whatever else years do to ammo.
Add the factory ammo ranging from small boxes of .22 , 6.35mm [25Auto], .38spl, 9mm, and 45ACP.
Just stick the ammo in a Paint/ Coffee can for storage.
Paint cans opened with that "whoosh" they do.
Coffee cans had had Wax paper put over top first, tied around with various cords, strings or electrical taped, and then the plastic lid put on.
Plastic lids - some just flat fell apart over the years, and were replaced , others that had had an addtional wax paper covering held up better.
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All Ammo fired. Not one hiccup, not one squib, not one "weak load", not one "sounded / felt funny".
Nice to hear my old skeet load was "still a good load". "It even patterned as it did back when...felled me a limit of doves too..." according to Grandpa.
Ammon fired and the guns run.
And...
Timeline : Need some help here. When did Winchester stop making 452AA? Because the Shotshells were loaded ~ 2 years before this powder was discontinued.
--
Back in the day, before Non-Tox was mandated for Waterfowl , we would load up Duck loads, stick in New Paint cans or Coffee cans and take Duck Hunting.
It was not uncommon to leave these "cans" sitting in duck blinds, or in the lift up seats of the shooting benches we used in flooded timber.
It was not uncommon to also to just leave ammo, factory or reloaded, in Deer stands, farm sheds, scattered about the property as folks did in little buildings or "utility boxes" on ranches , farms and so forth.
--
Ammo cans were used some, still most folks used ammo cans in the home for ammo, or used one kinda scratched up, dented and all for tool boxes and parts boxes on the farm, ranch, property.
New paint cans , used paint cans , coffee cans just too darn handy to not use for everything - including ammo.
--
I was also like others - being about the only time reloaded shells went into a box, was when I competeted, and the Range checked ammo, sealed it , signed it off, and I shot that ammo for that competition.
The rest of the time I would show up with 5 and/ or 10 gal buckets of shotshells to shoot.
--
My 12 ga load, and I was shooting about 20k - 25k rounds of 12ga alone at that time, was with 452AA. 2 3/4" hull, to duplicate the Win Factory 2 3/4 dr, 1 1/8 oz loading.
This loading still works. You don't understand, this loading still worked .
These paint cans/ and coffee cans have been in the attic, some out in a shed, some were left in a storage building, tool boxes in trucks, trunks of cars...
...exposed to hot, cold, humid, damp and whatever else years do to ammo.
Add the factory ammo ranging from small boxes of .22 , 6.35mm [25Auto], .38spl, 9mm, and 45ACP.
Just stick the ammo in a Paint/ Coffee can for storage.
Paint cans opened with that "whoosh" they do.
Coffee cans had had Wax paper put over top first, tied around with various cords, strings or electrical taped, and then the plastic lid put on.
Plastic lids - some just flat fell apart over the years, and were replaced , others that had had an addtional wax paper covering held up better.
--
All Ammo fired. Not one hiccup, not one squib, not one "weak load", not one "sounded / felt funny".
Nice to hear my old skeet load was "still a good load". "It even patterned as it did back when...felled me a limit of doves too..." according to Grandpa.
Ammon fired and the guns run.
And...
