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I'm going to echo the statement about storage. Going thru my in laws house, i've inherited a bunch of guns and ammo of late - and sadly, over 2/3 of the ammo has been bad - badly corroded steel and brass cases brass is not impervious to corrosion. I've had bad nickel plated brass that's been corroded, polished brass corroded, steel corroded. It's been pistol, rifle, and shotgun rounds. I have a 5 gallon bucket full of ammo soaking in water right now, that was all badly corroded.
Yeah I hear what you're saying, I recently found this batch of brand new Winchester primed 223 brass. I was working away loading these things and picked one up and it had corrosion spots on it, so I looked through the rest that I had just reloaded and I found two that had corrosion that I had missed. All in all out of 500 I found it nine with corrosion.
I found it odd because they were in a vacuum sealed bag for over 5 years....
I'm not going to chance it so they go into the scrap bucket. Better safe than sorry that's for damn sure.