I used a few boxes of wood tray primers back in the late 80s, all went bang just like new primers. One caution that may have been mentioned, is that they might be the old corrosive mix, and dont forget to clean. I have had issues with way old paper shot shells, some 16 ga Super X, light brown roll crimp. About every third shot, a hang fire would happen, a lot less recoil. Check for stuck wad, and continued. Another Murphy law deal, I ran across some factory CIL 32 40 factory shells, silver box, probably late 50s. They looked fine, but about a third of them the necks split. Me being the cheap farm boy that my depression era father taught me, I pulled the bullets, deprived and annealed the necks. Kind of like, "hold my beer and watch this", I am still shooting a few of the annealed old cases. Old components are OLD but with the Biden era prices, I will use them with some caution. And it may not be worth the risk with old shot shells. I have seen modern pump guns, where the base wad failed on the shell, not sure if any blood ran, but the receiver was wrecked.
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