Did you ever think of 100 rounds of ammo being "A lot"?

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Allow me to provide a slightly different perspective...

...before I started shooting, every time I heard/saw a news story about some guy who, among other things, was found in possession of, say, 1,000 rounds of ammo total, I thought 'what does anybody need with that much ammo?" Mind you, I wasn't against the guy just because he owned guns, I just thought that much ammo was a huge amount! Now I understand. This sport/hobby/whatever cost $$$.

I explain it to any quasi-anti this way if the subject comes up...

<warning: golf analogy approaching>

...Take a golfer please! His clubs cost money. His other equipment cost money. Joining a club cost money. Factor in travel time to the range. Maybe he even has to wait a bit before he starts hitting balls. Do you think, if he's at a driving range, he's going to just hit one or two packages of balls and then go home? That if he's at a course, he'll play three holes and pack it in? No! When we (golfer or shooter) finally get to the range, we want to make it count! Nobody goes to the shooting range to squeeze off 10-20 rounds. Usually you want to spend some time there, maybe even make a day of it. Therefore, having several thousand rounds is nothing to be alarmed about.

Anyway, that's just a different way of approaching the subject with a non-shooter.
 
I teach catechism to two boys, 10 and 12. Their parents are divorced, and they respond a lot better to a man as a teacher.

Sometimes we just talk about what interests them. They love hunting, shooting and fishing. The older boy has a NEF Handyrifle in .223, but no ammo. I asked if he saved the brass, and told him we could reload it.

He came to church crestfallen last week -- he thought he could find about 40 cases, but the grass turned out to be too high.

Now, I don't have a .223, but I never leave brass lying on the ground. I had ordered a set of dies from Lee, dug throught my possibles -- and handed him a plastic bag of 187 cases, all tumbled, de-primed and re-sized and told him to chamber each case in his rifle before we load them.

You would have thought I had given him a bag of gold!:D
 
maybe when I was a young 100 rounds was a lot. Keep in mind that with the price of ammo today - it pays to buy in more bulk amounts.
 
100 rounds is just enough for one range trip. Plenty of one handed practice. Some natural point. Some aimed fire w/2 hands. Naah. 150 is better for one range trip.

Now, if we're talking rifle, 100 is plenty and it can be too much if your rifle is one of those Russian M-44 carbines. Owwwwww!
 
Yes, when purchasing ammo for my .338 Lapua Magnum at $4.50 per round (plus tax), I think of 100 rounds as a lot.
 
100 rounds is only "a lot" if that's your CCW loadout. As a stash at home, well, I guess it's a beginning.
 
I buy ammo by the case since it's just cheaper that way. I rarely have more than one case of a caliber around at a time. I still buy .44mag a box at a time, though.
 
I used to buy .22s by the case (5,000 rounds) but practices change, and now I buy 10 or 20 cartons (500-550 rounds) at Wal Mart cheaper than I could get a case of Winchester Wildcats about 10 years ago.

For some of my rifles, I don't have (or need) a lot of brass. But for my .30-06s, I probably have around 6,000 rounds, another 6.000 of .45 ACP, and about 5,000 rounds of .38 special.
 
100 rounds in a single sitting in my Mosin? That's a lot. Too much? NAHH! Need more! Love it!:cool:
Only have about 400 40, and 25 7.62x54 right now.....catch up on bills, and make ammo run....;)
 
I have never thought 100 rounds was a lot of ammo. That said I should admit I have spent my entire life since I started shooting working for ammo. Even had a stint waxing airplanes BY HAND for ammo money. Paid good per day by most measures and smack wore out a M60 Marlin, but think a minute on the surface area of a freakin airplane......

I own my own home, am debt free other than mortgage, and all of that, but I have spent a staggering amount of money shooting in my life and see no light at the end of the tunnel. Figuring angles so I can shoot more or buy another gun all the time, it is always something. If you don't believe me ask my wife LOL.

I would start to convulse or something if I had less than 20K rounds on hand nowadays. I roll my own and it helps more than words can say in saving money and/or shooting more or I would be a couple hundred round guy like a lot here.

FOCUS, buy the reloading equipment and learn how to use it. FOCUS and save, buy reloading components in copious quantities and save BIG over piecemeal prices. Shoot more, and shoot better while having stable ammunition supplies. Buying $3000 worth of supplies at once saves literally HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of dollars, enough for a new gun even if you just have the discipline to manage your own buying power.

I guess the end result is what you make it. It just depends on how much you like to shoot. I am obsessed with shooting and new guns. I see to it that I have ammo on hand and a new gun every time I can afford one.
 
Yeah, I knew I slipped over the abyss into "gun nuttery" when I started buying ammo by the case instead of by the box.
 
shoot, i was 22 years old (having just moved to texas and left all my firearms stuff with my parents for a short time) before i ever LIVED in a house with less than about 200 rounds minimum for everything but the 16ga shotgun (heirloom, wasn't shot very much).

granted right now i have less than my personal "comfortable minimum" amount of ammo for my .45, but then again i've only had the thing home 5 days! and have not as of yet had oppurtunity to hit a gunshow for some bulk ammo.
 
Uhmm.. I kinda did -- at 21 even.

Having 100 rounds on hand wasn't a big deal -- that was a typical range trip with my first two guns.

However Sept 12, 2001 I "stocked up" and made sure I had 200 rounds of pistol ammo (didn't have a long gun) on hand at all times. I thought that it was a bit extreme.

I use ammo cans for end tables now :)
 
Well, if I did, I was so young I can't remember!;)
Jack Shandy: sometimes I wander out in the back yard and fire only 5 rounds or so. I live on a farm, however.:D
Kodiak AK isn't kidding! Cooking hint: use a steak for a recoil pad when you shoot lots of slugs at once! Then you'll have a nice, tenderized steak for later on!
My Mosins tend to eat ammo by the case!:what: I'm glad it's cheap.;)
 
For my XD I figure 100 rounds is just about enough to knock the dust and oil off and "wake" the gun up. A great way to get the day started.

But at the range I go to where we have to pick up all rifle brass, 80 in the SKS seems like I'd been at it forever...
 
I feel the same. Shooting 100 rounds is kind of like stretching a bit before working out. You get that done and then move on.
 
100 rounds????? Heck , I carry almost that much on me every day!

I hate getting below 300 at home, start reloading, and try to keep it around 800-1000. Still have cases of stuff for the less shot items.

I figure that the longer it sets, the more it cries out, "TAKE ME TO THE RANGE!!!!!!" Hate ammo getting "old".
 
Well for the last say month or so I've only had 18 rounds of ammo. Those were precious. I would have loved to go buy more, but can't afford it. If I had more I sure would have gone to the range, but I needed to save those precious 18. Dad owed me 300 reloaded rounds, but couldn't do them since work has been insane. Yesterday he gave me 150 rounds. I was so excited, but know they won't last long. When Jon came over for dinner he saw them and was excited we got more to shoot, but then was quite dissappointed when he realized it was only 150 rounds. I guess I'm wearing off on him a little more. :D :neener:
 
Geesh. I usually buy by the case, lot cheaper that way. Speaking of which, anyone know where to buy decent 7.62x39 brass?


Hey RoyG

http://www.revdisk.net/photos/Mk19ammo.jpg

That's one of the two stacks of ammo for my old Mk 19 Mod 3 automatic grenade launcher. I think it was around 6,000 rounds or so, of 40mm. Weighed probably a ton or two total. (Rounds, links, boxes add up, yanno)

I think that settles the old question. How much ammo is enough? The answer is, when you require a rather large forklift to carry it for you.
 
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