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Anyone have a book answer on how long Winchester Super Double-X Shelf Life is?
I found several boxes of 16 gauge and I would like to use them if possible. I assume they date from sometime around 1985-8. They were my go to duck load when I was in Alaska in the 1980's. Now they would be excellent pheasant shells.
Michael Dittamo
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I'm still shooting 20 gauge Remington Game Loads from the late 70's with no issues
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Col., I don't think there is a 'book answer' to your query because folks are still shooting the stuff. I have some old ones I still use for turkeys or squirrels..Geo
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While old corrosive primers seem to last forever, non-corrosive ones do seem to eventually die. Back in the late 1990s a buddy of mine scored a mixed case of old pre-WW-II paper shells at a Virginia gun show. In that I had driven that day he gave me a nice box of 12-gauge Winchester Super-Speed #6 chilled, same as the 10- and 16-gauge boxes on the right in this picture --  I took them to Nebraska for Pheasants. First Rooster to get up old "Meat in the Pot" went click, click!! We tried six or eight of the shells in different guns and none would fire.
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It is not the primers that concern me it is whether grex fibre cushioning has solidified into rock and i will be shooting slugs?
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Why not just cut some open and inspect them?
Tom C
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I have two bottles of Super Grex buffer that were given out as free samples at the NRA Convention in New Orleans in the late 1980s and it is still as light and fluffy as the day it was made.
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The only old shells I ever tried to shoot that failed to fire had primers that turned a dark color and everyone of them was a dud. I just cut them up for the shot and dumped the powder in the garden.
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It is not the primers that concern me it is whether grex fibre cushioning has solidified into rock and i will be shooting slugs? I still use XX 4s or 2s from the 80s as 2nd 3rd shots turkey hunting. They still go bang, kill the occasional coyote or groundhog. I have had to throw some away as 870 ejector has chewed all the lip off the brass they've been unloaded so much.
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Why not just cut some open and inspect them? Did not want to waste one if i could get an easier answer
Michael Dittamo
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