Ammo saving for "rainy day"

[Maximum1]

The Bushmaster said "When the "SHTF" and you "bug out". Let me know how much ammunition you can carry besides everything else you'll need. Then tell me how much ammunition you NEED to keep around the house. I have over a thousand rounds of various calibres (.22, 9mm X 19, .38 Spec, .357 magnum, .45 ACP, .30-30, .30-06 and 12 gauge) on the loading bench and have nothing against stock piling ammunition, but you can only carry soo much when you have to leave. Who gets the remaining ammunition?"

That's why you have a trailer on hand to haul EVERYTHING YOU NEED like this one...http://www.trailersforless.com/haulmark_grizzly_cargo_trailer.html

When the "SHTF" and you "bug out" EXTRA AMMO and GUNS are GREAT items to barter with!!!

 

[CDH]

Figured I'd take a pic since it will only be getting smaller for the forseeable future.

I say that when the SHTF, we all grab out stuff and meet up in Manchaca, Texas.
That seems to be the epicenter for defensive resistance in Texas.

 

[fiddleharp]

First of all, very few of us have fully automatic weapons. If you get into a SHTF firefight with your semi-auto, you'll probably be aiming as carefully as your jangled nerves will permit, and from a prone position. One way or another, the fight probably won't last long and you won't use much ammo.
These guys who have dozens of guns and hundreds of thousands of rounds of centerfire ammo are living in a dream world if they think they are actually going to have much of a chance to use all this stuff in a TEOTWAWKI scenario.
Some of these hoarders say they'll equip trusted friends with their "secondary" guns and form a neighborhood militia.
If their friends and neighbors are anything like mine, all I can say is LOTSA LUCK!

 

[abuelo]

I also have a small stockpile, more for some calibers than others, most being aquired over the years a box here and there. Biggest purchase was last spring when Dick's sporting goods had 9mm for 6.99 a box if you bought a case. I bought a couple cases, now i wish I bought 50, but you do what you can. The economy here in michigan is in the toilet, and money is very tight.

 

[XD-40 Shooter]

I have a large stash for all of my calibers, but if I could not obtain reloading components, or factory ammo, at some point in the future, then I would be done shooting when my stash got down to 500 rounds, for each caliber. I really hope that never happens.

 

[22-rimfire]

I have been steadily buying ammunition. Today, I bought two bricks of 22LR at Walmart. It builds up.

That's why you have a trailer on hand to haul EVERYTHING YOU NEED like this one...http://www.trailersforless.com/haulm...o_trailer.html

I have been thinking about getting a trailer along those lines for general use (work). They are handy to store stuff in at a job site and lock it up at the end of the day. They would also as you said make a very good unit to transport all kinds of stuff should you need to. I have another trailer that I use, but it is not covered. If things go okay, I'll probably be buying a covered trailer in 2009. Th problem with trailers is that there is quite a market in stolen trailers so you really have to be careful about chaining it down securely. Or you keep it out the house.

 

[MagnumDweeb]

Absolutely, stock 2k of 7.62x39, 3+k of .22lr, 2k of 9mm, 500 of .357, 500 of .44 Magnum, 1k of .38 special, 1100+ of 8mm Mauser, 1300+ of .45 ACP, a few hundred rounds of 12 gauge made up of slug and 00' shot. Went and bought a CETME .308, so now I'm going to take some of my sockaway money and get me 1+k of 7.62x51, after a few months of replenish my disposable income savings I'll pick up another 'k'.

Mind you I'm a single man in his relatively early twenties(24) without any kids, no mortgage, in lawschool with scholarships, truck has been paid off for three years (got used at a real good price), and I mow yards, collect cans(seriously, been doing that since middle school, large suburb with recycling every week, my parent's neighborhood recycling day is on a day I don't have classes thankfully, and I don't have classes till 10am on the days my neighborhood collects recycling), do focus groups (but that only a $150 a month, and not always every month), do blue collar work odd jobs (put up a fence for my parent's neighbors, replace a garbage disposal, fix a washing machine, replace/repair/help build a patio deck, paint houses, etc. etc.), take 'moving' gigs off craigslist, gamble smart at the casino, day trade, and petsit. Yeah I've always been a money obsessive type, get it from both sides of family, both the Catholic and Jewish. And I'm tight with my budgets. And I claim it all on my taxes and was happy to get that last tax subsidy check from the government because of it, and it's still so little that my income return is sizable but that goes straight to savings.

I don't envy any many right now with a family with the way things are. A lot harder to feed your guns when you have to feed your kids.