How does one 'forget' about ammo ?

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Well I have no wife, GF or kids so loosing things is all on me. Not so much I loose ammo but often brass or bullets get tucked here or there and forgotten. Just the other day I was looking for some MB coated Small Ball and in the process of moving the cartons around found 15 cartons of Softball I forgot I had ordered. It is now with my 45 ACP stuff. Guess that's what I'll have to start shooting as my158 SWC are gettimg thin. Oh well.:oops:
 
Some of us took “buy it cheap, stack it deep” to heart a very long time ago.

I have a safe for most of my ammo, some of it I haven’t seen in years.
Just the other day I was looking for my MK 3 knife and I opened an ammo box I though had knives in it, wrong, full of 30-06 in enbloc clips.

Some of it comes from changes over time, I used to duck hunt a good bit, bought 12ga steel shot by the case. I haven’t duck hunted in close to a decade :( but i still have enough steel shot to get through a season of heavy use...... somewhere
 
I found 2 bricks of WW Wildcat bought back when Slick Willie was in office.
I don't plink, just bought em during the minimal panic of back then.
Tag said 14.99 a brick.
Sold em during the Obummer panic for 60 each.
I wasnt gonna use em.
My CZ455 likes the CCI Blazer for hunting ammo, and SK match for getting serious at the bench.
My Anschutz 184 loved the 42 gr Australian Winchester stuff, my CZ does not.
Got two bricks of that stashed someplace LOL
 
Got a new bed yesterday, cleaned out from under my “old” bed, where I keep all my firearm boxes...found 2 long guns, and I’ll be danged if I know where they came from..and I’m only 42! I’ve heard of guns being stolen before, but I’m wandering if someone is stashing guns here..
 
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Hooda Thunkit said:
I keep reading threads in various places, some fella saying something like ' ....well, I was looking under the bench, and found a case of XYZ I had forgotten about ...'

I just shake my head. How does one forget about ammo ? Especially these days with it being so dear.

Anyway, I was on a local forum, and a member there wants to trade some ammo for possibly some 22LR. I can use the ammo he has, so I went out to the bunker to look at my stock of 22LR. I know I have some over there on the shelf, and a 30cal ammo can under the shelf with some open box and oddball stuff - 22short, quiets, and whatnot.

I pull out the 30 cal can to open it, and see another can behind it. It has a label that states '22LR'. This time it's a 50 cal can. Open it up, it's full of various boxes of 22LR. Several thousand rounds.

Huh !

Then, I see ANOTHER 50 cal can under the first, and it's ALSO full of 22LR. Some Winchester, some CCI, some Golden Bullets (yeah, I know...), some Aquila.

Well.... I suppose it is possible for a young, vibrant male (in his 7th decade) to lose track of a few piddly rounds of 22....;) I have plenty to trade with this other fellow.

Then, I notice another 30 cal can in the corner under the shelf, hidden by the 2 cans of 22LR. Open it up, there's 20 boxes of 20ea Norma Tactical 55gr .223 Rem in there.

400 rounds of 223 I have no recollection of buying.o_O

Ahem.... I have nothing to say....
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Most of us can't remember what we ate last night or why we walked into a room; so forgetting about a can of ammo we stashed 5 years ago is a real possibility.
 
In a "detached garage"is some ammo that has been sitting for about 20 years. They are in metal containers with desiccant packs and taped shut and, while I know there are 4 bricks of Winchester Wildcat LRN (bought @ $10/brick in the late 90s) as well as a couple of hundred rounds of my reloads in both .380 and .243. There is no "public" outdoor range within reasonable distance so I don't get to shoot much.
The rest of my ammo is in those small plastic ammo cans like the ones seen at Harbor Freight and they are in a closet in the house. The problem is that there are now over a dozen of them !!
Separate ones for .38 Special, .357, .22LR, and .22 Mag.
 
Shanghai McCoy said:
As I have, (surprisingly...) gotten "old" I find myself thinking a lot about the hereafter.
I'll walk into a room and think, "Now what the heck am I here after...?" ;)
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I'll have you know, I walked in to a room just today, and remembered why I went in there.

Of course, it was the bathroom, but still....
 
Some could have medical conditions hurting memory. I know I do. Others could have so much ammo its hard to keep up with it all. And some could be trying to hide it form there SO. Many reasons. And yes I have lost ammo. Lost more mags then ammo. Will be moving in a few months no telling what will be found!!!
 
I hadn't lived at my parents house since 1980. About 7 years ago mom found a cheap 22 single shot rifle tucked in the back of the closet of my old bedroom. I have no idea where it came from.
 
Was busy buying .22 bricks from LGS forgot about a box with several 50 rd boxes Blazer and Eley had ordered. Also found couple pocket knives I had bought few months ago.:confused:
 
I can't say too much. I keep my hard cases under the bed, and when I went to get one out the other day, I ran across a case of 12 gauge dove loads. Completely forgotten about buying them. Not only that, I was gifted a new gun cabinet for Christmas; when I consolidated all my ammo into, I found a decent amount of 16 gauge, 22lr, and 38 special I forgot about. Good thing for me is, I've taken up reloading and can afford to spare some ammo to the LGS in exchange for (another) side by side. Pretty decent trade, considering what I'm getting vs. what I paid.

Mac
 
kcofohio said:
Some time back I couldn't find 3 factory magazines for a couple Shields. I looked all over. Finally I broke down and ordered replacements.
Then I was going through a range bag and found them. Duh!
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Been there, done that (more than once)
 
jmr40 said:
I hadn't lived at my parents house since 1980. About 7 years ago mom found a cheap 22 single shot rifle tucked in the back of the closet of my old bedroom. I have no idea where it came from.
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I got ready to scrap a beater/gas saver car I drove for a few months. Only drove it back and forth to work M-F, but upon cleaning it out found a NEF 12ga single shot and a box of ammo in the trunk. About had to have come from a yard sale somewhere before or after work and you'd think I'd remember buying it. Nope.
 
I keep my ammo in a very small lock box. I am willing to bet there are some members that have more ammo in their truck than I have on hand right now. Even in that confined space there is ammo I forget I had. The Mrs got a box of Aguila ammo in 9mm. Don't remember when, I think it was with a gun purchase. Found it in my ammo pile. I know I was the one that put it there because I have the codes to get in. But I forgot about it. That has happened to other ammo too. I found a box of 38 SPL that had been buried for about 6 years. And I don't even have a 38 to shoot it in anymore. Forgetfulness happens.
 
22250Rem said:
Easy indeed! I never actually inventoried all my 22LR and I began stocking up after the Obama era shortages eased up. Did a 7.62x39 inventory years ago and I should be due to revisit that because all I know is that I don't have as much as I once did but I won't run out any time soon. I'm gonna put "Ammo Inventory" on my things to do list and thanks for starting this thread and reminding me.
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I tried the inventory thing. Didn't work. Keep forgetting to update it.
 
Here is how it goes with me now. If I lose a tool, box of bullets, or whatever, I just relax because I know that I will lose something else shortly and while looking for it, I will find the item I lost before that. I have been looking all over for the collapsible cleaning rod I couldn't find the other day and I haven't found it, but I have found two gun tools that I lost before that so it all comes around in a big ole circle.
 
buck460XVR said:
When you have a wife like mine that feels the need to organize my stuff her way, you find lots of stuff you forgot you had
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Exactly.
I told my wife that I was out of .22lr ammo and had to buy more, she promptly lets me know that there are 2 boxes that she put away in the reloading shed, 600 rounds suddenly appear.
She’s definitely a keeper.
 
Haven't found much lost ammo but I was transferring all my gun stuff into cabinets this weekend and found 3k small pistol primers I didn't know I had. Now I need to decide if I want to reload or sell them and buy a new truck.
 
I just shake my head. How does one forget about ammo ? Especially these days with it being so dear.
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Ask an old cat lady how many cats she has.

Ask a kid how many toys they have.

Ask your wife how many shoes she has.

How many pairs of socks do you have? Don’t you use them every day...and you still don’t know how many?

For me it’s likely because I don’t keep it all in the same place or have stock data on a spreadsheet on a computer or up loaded to a cloud. Still makes me happy when I come across it. Found about 500 rounds of 9mm I had forgot about in my shop just yesterday and last summer found a $20 in a pair of swimming trunks, kind of the same thing for me.
 
While we are on the subject of forgotten ammo, here's something I began doing when I started building up my 22LR brick by brick. I put the purchase date on the box with a sharpie so when I re-discover some of it a few years later the older stuff gets used first. Not that it makes much difference but just sort of a rotating stock procedure used by many businesses. F.I.F.O......... ( First In - First Out ).
 
I keep ammo stashed in several places, some hidden where it takes work to dig out. When this panic hit I did a rough inventory and found a ton (Okay, maybe a couple hundred pounds.) more than I remembered buying/trading for.

Best revelation is that I know I missed a few 1K cases of CCI .22LR, so who knows what else is there when I finally locate that pile.
 
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