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I knew a guy that found some old 1889 shotgun cartridges and put them in an old junker shotgun of his! He put the gun in a vice and pulled the trigger with a 40 ft string. The gun fired, there was a lot of smoke (as was normal for powder back them) and the target was evenly sprayed with what appeared to be goose shot.
Mind you firing off old shotgun ammo is not wise, but pistol and rifle ammo from the 1930's onward should be fine.
p.s. some specially marked rounds from WWII were intentionally overloaded so that they would explode in the Germans/Russians/Allies faces. Never shoot off mixed ammo that you find unmarked in bags and boxes in gunshows unless you intend to weigh every single shell.
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