Granted the food, even freeze-dried and dehydrated should last for a long time.
But it's the chemical reactions in medicine, propellant and explosives that are the problem. Now, recovered .303 British ammo abandoned on World War One battlefields, when cleaned, can still be fired, although I have heard of "noticeable numbers of duds". German ammo from the same is still useable, while French and Russia Great War ammo is almost useless.
Arguments basically run that if quality control is first rate, ammo can last decades.
Maybe it's my experience in the green machine, but ammo deteriorates, primers go bad, propellant goes bad. Time is a real pain.
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