6 month shelf life primers?

[lange1]

My buddy's Dad just passed on, and since my buddy doesn't reload, he gave me a pile of 6.5 and 375 bullets and about 5,000 primers from the late 60s. I'm going to load them until I get a dead one, and will keep records.

Also shot a pile of original '42 and '43 headstamp 45 ACP, and all worked, as did 30-06 from same years. It works if it doesn't get wet, and sometimes even when it does.

Bradshaw shot all those 10mms that had rotted away, I think they all worked.

[Muttly]

Heard that one about 7-8 months ago, bout as likely as an honest politician..

[seancass]

I'm confused by all the mixed messages in this thread. So are you guys saying this is true?

[bagdadjoe]

I still have some CCI primers in the little green box marked 49 cents and they still work fine. Must be from around 1990ish. That's waaaaay back in the last millennium.

[Paden]

Jun 5, 2014 21:06:42 GMT -5 seancass said:

I'm confused by all the mixed messages in this thread. So are you guys saying this is true?

:D

....I read it on the internet, so it must be true.

[magnumwheelman]

well... as others have said... it would not be good for the primer manufacturers... dead ammo, loaded a year ago, & guy gets killed because his ammo was duds... see lawsuits...

but I also have primers older than dirt, that I use all the time... so to clarify... old primers last years & years... IF ... they were to change the formula, it would have to be on newly manufactured primers... & the only way that would fly, is if the industry did it as a whole... it would also have to be widely announced, to stem any lawsuits, & if it was not industry wide, no one would buy the brands with the short shelf life, so in essence those companies would be out of business...

so I don't ever see this happening ( short of another "executive order" & the following challenges being lost ) which would all be highly publicized