Old bullets from the 80s

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Oysterboy

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Going through my drawers I found an old eyeglass case. Inside were some old bullets I had since the 80s. Forgot all about them and I don't think I'll shoot 'em.

Row 1 - 22s
Row 2 - 25s
Row 3 - 380s
Row 4 - 9mm, 38 super, 38 special, 30 carbine

 
why not shoot them. i have stuff i got for my model 1917 from wwI that has a head stamp of 1918 it all shot fin except for one dud. shoot the rounds and move on.

they are potentially more dangerous to dispose of or keep vs just shooting them.

heck most military surplus 30-06 is ww2 or korea vintage and its all fine.

same with most of the russian stuff for ak's most are atleast 1970 vintage
 
i have a factory sealed us army property box of 50 of them on a self next to the army issue belt and holster.

didnt like the idea of loose rounds that might have been inoperable sitting where i might grab them. but out of the 30 or 40 i shot only 1 failed to go bang.

i figure if it took almost 100 years for that im pretty confident 1980's production is safe
 
I was retired when the 80's ended and I still shoot ammo from the 50's and the 60's. 80's is almost new stuff. :D
 
I don't see why not shoot it all. Like pretty much everyone else here... I've fired much older ammo than that, and a lot of it.

Certainly don't think there's gonna be any collector's value to consider, firstly because they're just loose cartridges (not whole boxes) and of very common calibers; for all intents and purposes, they'll never be worth anything.
 
Old ammo turns up all over. I once found an old GECO BAT 9mm in a car I was cleaning out in preparation for sale. It was probably from around 1992. It's still rolling around in my desk somewhere.
 
I got into a buddy's pickup truck one day and noticed that he had ammo all over the pickup. In the console, in the glove box, in the door pockets, everywhere were loaded 1911 magazines. There must have been twenty magazines in that truck. I asked him about it. He was a veteran Marine from the Vietnam era.

"I promised God one night that if he let me live to see the daylight, I'd never again run out of ammunition. God kept his end, I intend to keep mine."

'80s ammo ain't old.
 
80's ammo isn't even close to old. All you displayed looks good a new..corrosion is the only problem with old ammo. I've also shot WWII and earlier stuff, almost all of it goes bang just fine. Occational dud, but you get occational duds in new stuff too.
 
I've still got a couple of boxes of Nyclad 9mm from the 1980's - you remember, these are rumored to cut like butter through bullet proof vests.
 
Ive shot ammo as old as 1940. This stuff was brass case 303 with arabic writting on the can. Had no problem with it.
The only problem I've had with old ammo was some stripper clipped steel cased 7.62 x 54R. I bought it for the stripper clips. When I tried to shoot it the cases split on the first three. Tossed the ammo and still use the stripper clips. The ammo cost less than buying stripper clips.
 
How much ammo do you have? Shoot me a pm. I might be interested in taking them off of your hands if it's enough to make shipping them worthwhile.
 
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