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As long as it's kept dry and not frozen it should be fine if it is high quality ammo. The best bet however is to check for corrosion. Also, keep in mind that gun powder becomes more volatile with time. This isn't a problem with ammo 25-40 yrs old. However, when dealing with ammo 100+ years old take extreme caution. There was a cannon in storage at a museum here in America from the Revolutionary War. Unbeknownst to the museum workers it had a full black powder charge in it over 300 years old. They recently had to take several days of work to remove the powder. It turns out that it was so volatile that the cannon leaning foward and hitting the front of it's barrel with a hard surface would have set it off. Just be careful and don't do anything stupid. The last thing we need is another statistic.
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