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FuglyStick · 08-29-2010, 05:48 PM

Thanks, Hektore.

I must confess, the question is more theoretical than practical. I've come across accounts online of ammunition that was 80 years old or better performing without flaw, when stored in an air tight container. My real impetus for picking the brains of the TFP Weaponry crowd is the post-apocalyptic movies that depict firearms being used a century or more after ammunition would have been produced. While reloading shells is easy enough with relatively simple tools, the acquisition and refining of the raw materials needed to make powder and primer would require industrial organization; without that industrial organization, the only ammunition available would have been the ammunition produced before the collapse of the industrial organization, making firearms obsolete as soon as the ammunition expired, whether it had been fired or not.

08-29-2010, 05:48 PM	#3 (permalink)
FuglyStick WHEEEE! Whee! Whee! WHEEEE! Location: Southern Illinois	Thanks, Hektore. I must confess, the question is more theoretical than practical. I've come across accounts online of ammunition that was 80 years old or better performing without flaw, when stored in an air tight container. My real impetus for picking the brains of the TFP Weaponry crowd is the post-apocalyptic movies that depict firearms being used a century or more after ammunition would have been produced. While reloading shells is easy enough with relatively simple tools, the acquisition and refining of the raw materials needed to make powder and primer would require industrial organization; without that industrial organization, the only ammunition available would have been the ammunition produced before the collapse of the industrial organization, making firearms obsolete as soon as the ammunition expired, whether it had been fired or not. __________________ AZIZ! LIGHT!