Opened a case of 45 ball with date and lot numbers from frankfort arsenal dated 1934. My EOD team was conducting an ADR ammo destruct request on suspect lot numbers etcetera .... We “destroyed” one round at a time for a few cases ..... flawless function in our 1911A1’s...... Old ammo is not bad ammo IMO. Remember the 1600+/- rounds of russian tin containers full of 7.62X54R ? 1920’s era crap looked like it was loaded yesterday.
That Russian stuff was probably corrosive primers, yes? But the USGI .45, not? Just curious, I have a rough idea what is likely corrosive, and what isn’t, but haven’t been around much that was that old to be worried about it.
I don’t have to worry about the coolers, I have enough space in my climate controlled basement.