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military surplus ammo from the 1950's is still being shot with reckless abandon by a lot of guys and gals that like milisurp rifles- military ammo is generally built a little more resistant to assorted environmental concerns than your average commercial stuff- humidity will get to shotgun shells pretty quick, and .22 rimfire ammo being generally cheaply made, seems to be susceptible as well - excessive heat (over 100) for a long time is supposed to reduce shelf life somewhat- I, and a lot of people I have met, tend to store my ammo in .50 cal ammo cans with good seals, and some desiccant to kill any residual moisture, and stored that way it seems to be good for pretty much a lifetime-
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and as to the idea of guns in a post apocalypse setting, black powder is actually easy enough to make that I know people that have done so for blackpowder shooting, and primers can be made using mercury fulminate, also quite easy ( and REALLY FUCKING DANGEROUS ) to make- brass cases can easily be reused up to 10 times each, sometimes more, and the tech to make new ones is steam engine era, not likely to be that hard to climb back up to, unless you are talking about one helluva PAW- as mentioned above, if you wanna go for a higher prize, nitrocellulose is not that hard to make, though it is harder than black powder- as to older guns working, some guys on another forum decided to see how long an Ak-47 semi auto clone would run on black powder loads they made up just for the occasion- they only made 100, thinking it would foul, but it was still going strong when they ran out....... likewise, revolvers will run just fine on simple black powder reloads.....
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