BTW, I shot 700 rounds of .38 SPL from my revolver, in ONE range session this year. Yes, really. It was fun, lasted all day, friends shot it too.
Before the huge ammo price jumps around 2006, me and friends would have shooting parties. After that it got smaller, but we still did it. Its not uncommon for me to give 100 rounds to someone to celebrate a new rifle, or 200 to a new shooter. I will occasionally blow 1000 rounds on a group shoot.
For me, this means 50 rounds is not enough. Having 10K in different cals can make lifelong shooters get their initial addiction. I don't think I would be hoarding in this case.
I am not the only one I know who does this. This, I believe, is how we keep the sport alive. I have started many gun nuts, target shooters and hunters who bought into the only TRUELY all inclusive community I have ever seen. I am in NW Washington state, so maybe its not as welcoming everywhere, but here it really is a all accepting community. We aren't keeping the sport alive with confederate flags and cummins's.
Inviting everyone, giving them what they need to get started and making it fun is a political agenda form many, and yea, we are a major part of the shortage.