Yeah, you'll get further and folks should understand better if you use correct nomenclature. The 'bullet' is the projectile only, the part that gets on out there. 'Cartridge' or 'round' is the whole thing: case, primer, powder, bullet.

I think I'd add 'cool' to johnch's 'dry' for storage.

Someone once gave me a coupla handfuls of .38 rounds, no idea how old they were or how they had been stored. I guessed them to be from the '50s, just based on what I knew of the giver. They shot lousy. All over the target. And it wasn't me, because every other group with the same gun at the same shootin' session was OK.

Last summer I shot a few Rottweil 20 ga. slugs. I had bought about 4 boxes from a guy at a gun show. Again, no idea on age or storage, but same results. They shot lousy.

Just store carefully and keep that stuff movin'. Shooting up the old keeps you in practice, too.