How much ammo do you guys keep on hand?

[shiftyer1]

I keep enough to get me thru the last ammo shortage. What I need for hunting and plinking with a little extra to get me thru. I have a small budget so it's not a bunch but I think it's enough. I tend to stock more birdshot and .22 than anything else.

If you can afford to stock up, even if you don't need it you can still resell it if times get tough.

It's not a bad idea to have some extra food on hand either, I was recently unemployeed for 7 months with a family of 6. Guess how many ways you can cook rabbit......not near enough ways thats for sure. If your gonna prepare make food a first priority!

 

[howards]

Man.. some of you guys put me to same.

 

[joed]

It isn't so much that I have a lot of ammo sitting around but that I have the components to produce it if need be. I also stay away from spray and pray calibers that just waste ammo. I'd venture to say I have enough to last the rest of my life.

The only time you can ever have to much ammo is when your house is on fire.

 

[Phantom Captain]

Well...

Apparently a LOT more than most of you posting here. And I was thinking I didn't nearly have enough...

 

[bangaway]

Measure mine by the truck. More than 2.

 

[mookiie]

I like to keep 200 rounds for each bolt action rifle, 500 for each semi auto rifle, and 1000 for each semi auto pistol.

Between all the guns I imagine I have 10,000+ rounds ready to go.

 

[Texas-Sgt]

Right now I have on hand.

Pistol
500 5.7x28
1200 9mm FMJ
400 9mm JHP
500 .357 Sig JHP
300 .JHP .357 Magnum
1000 LRN .38 special
1500 .40 S&W FMJ
500 .40 S&W JHP
1000 .45 ACP FMJ
200 .45 ACP JHP

Rifle
200 .17 HMR
7500 .223 steel case FMJ & JHP mixed
500 5.56x45 Tac-X 62g
1000 5.56x45 M885
300 5.56x45 JSP
200 .270 Win various
400 .308 Win 178g Hornady Match in Lapua brass
100 .308 Win 155g Lapua Scenar
100 .338 Lapua 285g Hornady Match in Lapua brass

Shotgun
500 12 ga bulk pack
250 12 ga 00 Buck, mostly Federal LE reduced recoil
50 12 ga slugs

I also have components to load 5k more of 9mm, .40, and .45, 1k more .308 Win w/ 178g Hornady Match, and 300 .338 Lapua w/ 285g Hornady Match.

Still not enough!

 

[Chris-bob]

A lot. Just in .22lr alone I have over 25k....but I still keep buying more of everything.

 

[BoltActionPrepper]

minimium of 3,000 rounds stored for any simi auto (pistol or rifle) intended for serious social work.....at least 500 rounds of 00 buck for a defensive 12ga....at least 10,000 rounds of .22lr and at least 1,250 rounds for a serious bolt gun....thats just per gun numbers...once you have this amount stored DONT SHOOT IT...it's your "rainy day" ammo..if you want to shoot your guns pick up a box or two of ammo from your local gunstore or wally world and head to the range...again DONT SHOOT your "disaster supply"...it'll always be there for you that way!

 

[bikerdoc]

Gentlemen,
We dont do shtf and teotwawki posts here, nor do we do kill them all and let god sort it out after we shoot to slide lock posts.

The question is " How much ammo do you guys keep on hand" so to stay on topic 3-5k per caliber.

 

[Davek1977]

5K 22LR
500 .17 HMR
1000 9mm
1000+ .223
700-800 7.62x39
40 7mm Rem mag

 

[joed]

I load for approximately 20 cartridges but I have at the least 2k for each in reserve with components to load to at least 10k.

The only time you can ever have to much ammo is when your house is on fire.

 

[CharlieDeltaJuliet]

600-50bmg
500-5.56
300-7.62 nato
300-30-06
500-.45acp
1500+-.22
100-.270
150-.243
100-.357
200-9mm
Other calibers .40,357,38spl, .222..etc have less than 100 each
I caught the 50bmg on sale for $200 per 100rds. So I bought all they had.

 

[Robert]

As doc said we are not a SHTF or EOTWAWKI board. There are many other places that cover those subjects. Reasonable preparedness is one thing. Fantasy is another.
THR is:

Welcome to The High Road, an online discussion board dedicated to the discussion and advancement of responsible firearms ownership. It is the declared mission of this board to achieve and provide the highest quality of firearms discussion on the Internet, a standard set by the discussion board "The Firing Line" in 1998.

Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[Flatbush Harry]

Just the minimum that I need.

FH

 

[metalart]

Far less than I would like.. Money has been tight as of late and cannot afford to build up. maybe 300 rounds per pistol. 1000 or so for the 22

 

[PastorAaron]

Never enough. My destressor is shooting, and I work with people's problems all of the time. Every weekend I burn ammo like a California wildfire.
I try and establish a stock that is a "don't touch" but it's hard. Prices keep climbing, or the dollar is dropping, and .45 is my cartridge of choice....

 

[WALKERs210]

Don't have an exact count on all the ammon that I have on hand. Only thing for sure I no is it would take 3 -4 healthy men to pick and move my ammo storage chest. Don't think the vacuum has been on that part of the carpet since it was new. Oh yea I have the fireams to go with all the different rounds.

 

[ChileRelleno]

Just over 17K rounds Total.

5.56x45 & .223rem
1800rds Fed XM 193 55gr FMJ + 16 30rd Mags (480rds)
900 PMC XTAC 62gr LAP + 4 30rd Mags (120rds)
780 PMC 55gr FMJ
1000 USA 55gr FMJ

Need to Double both FMJ/LAP
Need 68gr SP for hunting

7.62x39
3000 Yugo 123gr FMJ + 8 30rd Mags (240rds)
120 Uly 123gr FMJ
580 Sapsan 124gr HP

Need to Double/Triple Yugo
Need good SP for hunting


.308win & 7,62x51NATO
680 Uly 150gr FMJ
40 USA 155gr AMAX
20 Rem Core-Lokt 150gr SP
16 Win Power-Point 150gr SP
14 Fed Gold Medal Match 168gr HPBT

Need to quadruple 150gr FMJ


.22lr
3850 Fed bulk 36gr HPCP
400 CCI Mini-Mag 36gr HPCP + 1 Spee-D-Loader (90rds)
100 CCI Mini-Mag 40gr RNCP
120 CCI Shotshell

Need to double Fed bulk

12g
355 Rio & Win Super X 00 2.75" + 2 20rd Drum mags (40rds)
45 Win Super X 00 3." + 8 10rd mags (80rds)
265 Centurion & Win Super X 1oz Slug 2.75"
24 Fiocchi #4 buck 24pellet 2.75" + 2 5rd mags (10rds)
300 Fed bulk #7.5 2.75"

Need various fowl & small game shotshells
Need sabot slugs

.9mm Luger
47 Speer Gold Dot 124gr +P HP + 3 16rd mags (48rds)
20 Hornady Critical Defense 115gr BT
300 Rem UMC 115gr JHP
700 Rem, Fed & USA 115gr FMJ

Need Speer GD to 250-300
Need FMJ to 3000

.38spc
100 Fed Hydra-Shok 129gr+P HP
100 Monarch 158gr JHP
50 Win 115gr MJ

Need +P HP to 250-300
Need FMJ to 3000

.357mag
26 110gr SJHP

Need 250-300 Premium HP
Need FMJ to 500-1000

.380auto
150 Speer Gold Dot 90gr HP + 3 7rd mags (21rds)
34 Unspecified reloads 88gr HP
200 PMC 90gr FMJ

Need Speer GD to 250-300
Need FMJ to 3000

 

[Ignition Override]

3,000 rds. of surplus .303 (WW2 '43 mfg. in England, and later POF). Long-term storage, to be used after retirement.
400 rds. of reload. Prvi .303 and lots of pulled Russian .311 bullets.

2,500 rds. 7.62x39 Russian, out of a total of 6,000 in '09.
2,000 surplus 8mm Mauser (stored, never used; hate the Yugo 48A's iron sights).

350 rds. of reload. .308 and S. Korean NATO 7.62x51 (yes, Boxer primers).
Maybe 500 rds. of .22 LR.

 

[Buck Kramer]

1,000 per long semi-auto rifle (only 500 for AR)
400 per bolt action (easy cause they are both nagants)
500 9mm
50-100 .380

 

[ol' scratch]

Right now

1160 rounds of 7.62 x 51 and components for another 600 rounds

5000 rounds of 30-06 (walked into the CMP one day and they had a bunch of Lake City and AP. Split almost half and half, Hadn't seen it in years and it was cheap so I bought it) and a couple of thousand cases.

500 rounds of .223 and components to load another 300 rounds.

700 .45
100 9mm with components to make another 250, getting low
10 rounds of 9mm MAK (waiting on bullets, trimmed some 9mm cases)
1000 .22
110 rounds of .357 (getting dies shortly and small magnum primers).

 

[gondorian]

At least twice as much as you will shoot at the range in one day. So maybe 1000 or more for heavy use calibers like .22 and at least 200 for everything else. Maybe some of you like to have thousands of dollars of ammo stored up, but for me the time value of money is to great to tie it up with tens of thousands of rounds. Now maybe when tens of thousands of rounds represents a significantly smaller share of my income I will change my mind, but for now I think that is a good measure.

 

[whalerman]

I usually look for stuff that reasonably priced. Specifically old military calibers and cowboy stuff. Nothing has been resonably priced lately, so it looks like sooner or later I'll be back to shooting .22's.

 

[CraigC]

Very little. I get a bunch loaded up and then it magically all disappears within days. Never can seem to get ahead of the curve. I've somehow managed to keep about 500rds of .44Mag loaded up but only because I've been shooting other things. Just ran my supply of .223 dry and .45ACP is not far behind. I do have about 10,000rds of .22LR on hand but that's just my shooting supply. It won't last very long.