Stored in original packing in a cool dry basement?
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Stored in original packing in a cool dry basement?
I put them in a plastic bag and close it up tight. Maybe not necessary, but it can't hurt. I seem to use them up in less than 2 years, so really don't know the shelf life.
I have used old stock that was purchased in the mid eighties.
No problems.
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I have been using primers from early 60’s for years. No ftf
I use a lot from the 50's. I see no issues. I do not use them in match or hunting loads just on principle; but have never proven them bad.
I would assume they will last longer then your and our lifetimes if stored in a cool and dry area. I’ve had primers that are over 20 years old I stored in outside unheated storage for a couple years here in WI and all went bang. I keep mine in the house inside my reloading cabinet now.
Good to hear. I am about to break into a thousand spp that are around fourty years old.
I have primers made in the 50's that I bought in the 60's and have never had a bad one from the bunch . I have had 1 box of 100 CCI's made in the 80's that were junk by the mid 90's . The rest of the 1000 that that box came from were and still are good . Mine are stored in the detached garage and also my bedroom closet in my house in Tennessee and in the garage at the house in Alabama . No special storage , just setting on a shelf . I would not put them in a ziplock bag for fear that it might sweat and expose them to moisture . I am a hoarder and have been since the mid 60's and have several 100,000 primers stored in two states and the one box is all I have ever lost . Neither garage is insulated or has heating or cooling except a wood heater in the winter when in use only .
I’m loading primers from the 70’s now, no problems at all.
I have primers that have been wet dry them out and maybe one out of 100 did not work right They hade been damp long enough for mold to grow on the box’s they where old alcan primers
A few years ago I used up over 1000 from the 70's and they were fine. No special storage.
It was enough proof to me that I could keep adding to my inventory without risk.
In the late seventies I bought Winchester Staynless Primers, Np. 6 1/2 - 116 in wooden trays, end on boxes stamped SG91L17 from a local hardware store. I was told by an older gentleman that they were used because small pistol primers were not available in WWII for revolver rounds. I used then mostly in pistol rounds and a few in M-1 Carbine rounds. All worked without any misfires. Don't know how old they are but perhaps someone can date them by the above description.
these still work fine
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I happened to pick up a couple of surplus WW2 bricks of small pistol caps at a Tampa gun show in the mid 60s; I'm 80 now so they are about as old as me. If I didn't know their age I'd swear they were made last year and stored in a yellowed plain paper box but me ... well, that's a different story.
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These were from the fifties when the wood trays were still used. I had two cases of these and they work just fine.
I picked up primers that the boxing was showing signs of being wet at one time or another and were old as well had no issues so far and I used over half of them.
I got a box of reloading stuff a friend got when his granddad died. There were two or three 100 count boxes of Herter's primers in there. Worked fine.
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If stored properly they probably have a longer shelf life than we do.
I just got done loading and shooting CCI 350's that I bought in the 70's for my 44 magnum. They went boom just fine. I have always kept them in the basement where it was cool, in a wood cabinet. Only in the past several years have I run a dehumidifier in the Summer. Winter time I usually don't need to run it. I just store the primers separate from my powders.