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In terms of shelf life, ammunition generally doesn't expire or go bad. Many manufacturers will list an expiration date of ten years past the manufacturer date, but that's more for legal reasons than it is for safety reasons. If it's stored correctly, then there's no real known limit to how long you can keep ammunition.

Contact a Hazardous Waste Service Contact your local hazardous waste service and seek guidance on what to do. You will need a waste cleanup company to handle large amounts of ammo. For smaller collections, they may have a drop-off location where you can safely discard your explosive waste.

Bring It To The Range. Don't worry, we aren't advocating you go shoot your bad ammunition. Most ranges have a container for dud rounds and arrange collections with local law enforcement or recycling companies. If you ask politely, they may let you leave your bad ammo for the next pick-up.

"Collectors' cartridges" are probably 50 years or older, and have some feature that appeals to collectors. Values will generally be in the dollar or less range, but quite a few will bring higher prices with values in the $10.00-20.00 range not unusual, and some bringing much more.

Unspent means it was never fired.

When it comes to ammunition that has been used, you're really just left with the brass casing. The brass casing is recyclable, so after a round has been fired at the range, this portion can be recycled.

Generally, yes. If factory centerfire cartridges are stored in a dry, cool place with low humidity, preferably in an airtight container, they can have an amazingly long shelf life. Many ballistics experts who have shot tens of thousands of rounds over the years report shooting 20- to 50-year-old ammo with no problems.

When a bullet is fired from a gun, the gun leaves microscopic marks on the bullet and cartridge case. These marks are like ballistic fingerprints.

You can recycle brass shell casings by turning them over to a scrap metal facility and save some money for the next time you buy ammo. This is something that most gun ranges already do. You can bring spent brass shell casings as scrap metal to a metals recycler like GLE Scrap Metal.

This poses the question: where should these items go? Ammunition cannot be recycled. This is because ammunition falls into the category of explosives, which is dangerous to handle and process at the Material Recovery Facility. Ammunition should be taken to your local police station for safe disposal.