Not a question this time. An answer of sorts.
In early 2020, when "everything is sold out everywhere", was just getting started, I picked up several thousand OLD primers at an auction.
The oldest, near as I can tell, were these Western Improved Non-Mercuric, Non-Corrosive. 1950s vintage I believe. You can see from the box that the storage conditions were less than ideal at some point. There was a bunch of vintage ammo sold in the same auction that was ROUGH. Lots of corrosion and boxes that had obviously been wet.
I've loaded up a dozen or so in small pistol, just to see. They all fired. Then I loaded up 100 in 300 Blackout. Fired off about 50 yesterday with zero misfires, malfunctions, or any occurrence of note.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5uiwpm3an9g7qub/western%20primers.jpg?dl=0
In early 2020, when "everything is sold out everywhere", was just getting started, I picked up several thousand OLD primers at an auction.
The oldest, near as I can tell, were these Western Improved Non-Mercuric, Non-Corrosive. 1950s vintage I believe. You can see from the box that the storage conditions were less than ideal at some point. There was a bunch of vintage ammo sold in the same auction that was ROUGH. Lots of corrosion and boxes that had obviously been wet.
I've loaded up a dozen or so in small pistol, just to see. They all fired. Then I loaded up 100 in 300 Blackout. Fired off about 50 yesterday with zero misfires, malfunctions, or any occurrence of note.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5uiwpm3an9g7qub/western%20primers.jpg?dl=0