How much ammo do you stock?

[SaxonPig]

1,000 rounds per gun would be ridiculous given the number of guns I own. Now 1,000 per caliber makes sense although I admit that I don't have that much for every caliber (I don't think I really need 1,000 rounds of 380 on hand).

The last time I tried to do an inventory I had about 22,000 rounds in 28 calibers.

 

[MRIman]

I buy ammo when I can,most often not enough.
In the days of $.04 8mm ammo,I thought I did buy enough.
Years of shooting go by,and now i'm down to my last 10,000 rds.
Ammo is better then money in the bank.

MRI

 

[LongRider]

Handguns about 1K each rifles who knows ammo crates full per

 

[papajohn]

More than the local authorities would probably like to know about. Powder quantities would likely also make them shudder. Need more.

PJ

 

[gcrookston]

That's kind of a loaded question for me. For some guns, I only have a couple of boxes (.38 sp or .357 mag, for instance). Then I have several k each of 7.62x39, 7.62x51, 5.56, 9mm, 45acp

 

[Peter M. Eick]

The problem with your poll is you stated per gun. I have far to many 38 specials to have 1000 rnds per gun. You should have done it per caliber for a more accurate assessment.

 

[jjohnson]

I'm With CWL

Oh, come now, "hoarding" is something you do with grain or something. I votw with CWL, you need to add zeros to your poll.....

 

[Vern Humphrey]

"Hoarding" is a socialist concept -- the theory being that if you have more than you need ("need" being defined by the government) you're somehow cheating someone else out of his share.

 

[tinygnat219]

Enough to satisfy my shooting hobby.

Exact numbers will not be disclosed.

 

[yakkingallover]

I am good in some calibers like 9mm and lacking in .38spl and .357.Probably need to hit the reloading bench. In general I have enough to where my fiancee and my dad still understand but when I told my brother he kinda looked at me funny.

 

[Snubby 38]

My UPS guy got a hernia delivering to me... you can never have too much.

 

[Hutch]

Some subtlety is called for.

Let me start off by saying I have no idea how many loaded rounds of ammo I have, or what exactly what component inventory is for reloading. I did sorta-kinda count up the primers earlier this year, and it was 50k< x < 60k. All that being said... Different strategies for different calibers and uses. I have > 3k .223 and .308, 7.62x39 ammo that's mil-spec or mil-surp. I have > 1k .30-'06 M2 ammo. Back when prices were much lower, I decided to quit reloading 9mm, since Blazer could be had for 3.84/box, and I stocked up a 2 or 3k at that time. (I'm now glad I didn't ditch all the 9mm brass) I have 100 < x < 1000 of serious S.D. ammo in .45ACP, 9mm, .38Spl, .44Spl, and .357M. I have taken a renewed interest in CASS, and so I'm loading and shooting a lot more .38's than I used to.

For hunting, or serious target work, I will have ~ 100 or so rounds handloaded in any of those calibers.

For rimfire, which for me means .22LR, I don't even know how many digits are in the number of cartridges I have. I'm pretty sure it's a 5 digit number, but I don't know what the first digit is.

How does an accumulation like this fit into the poll?

Looking Saxon Pig's post got me to thinking...
1 rimfire caliber
2 shotgun guages, but overwhelmingly just 12g
7 rifle calibers (.223, .30-30, .308, .30-'06, 7.62x39, 7.62x54R)
8 handgun calibers (9Mak, .380, 9mmP, .38Spl, .357M, .44Spl, .44M, .45ACP)
That would be....Lessee... carry the 1.... 18 calibers.

 

[Ben Shepherd]

I had a similar thread a few years back, might as well tie it in to this one:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=232145&highlight=regarding+ammo

 

[Prince Yamato]

I try to keep 1000-2000 rounds per caliber. I don't really have room for that much more. Though I do have about 3000 rounds of that surplus 7.62x25

 

[Kentucky-roughrider]

I voted 501 to a 1000 rounds, but I don't have a clue of how much ammo I have. I was told by a gun shop owner that in the event of an invasion, he was coming to my house.

 

[flynlr]

I hardly keep track . but I have this rough estimate i update a couple times a year.
as of 7/31/2008
22 LR
fed bulk back 4350 rounds

.223/5.56mm
Federal XM193 in boxes lot 121 820 rounds
in mags 30 rounds
Federal AE223 in mags 90 Rounds
WCC M855 green tip boxed 500 rounds
M196 Tracer reloads 50 rounds
Remington umc 223 in mags 60 rounds
Remington umc 223 boxed 20
Radway green ss109 1350 rounds
Radway green 55gr reloads 30 rounds
LC Reloads 55gr FMJ boxed 1250 rounds
IMG first loads 55gr FMJBT 1000

total 5200 .556/223 rounds
.40 cal
winchester ranger 165gr HP 100 rounds
winchester white box 180FMJ 200 rounds
AMMO reloads 180GR Plated 1500 rounds
AMMO reloads 165GR Plated 150 rounds
total 1950 40S&W rounds

7.62x54R 147GR FMJ hung steel 1620
7.62x54r 182GR FMJ bulg brass 300
loose 147GR 64
total 1984 rounds

7.62x39 wolf 154Gr 500 rounds

total Loaded Ammo 13,984

components
.224 55gr FMJBT W/C Hornady 2609
.224 55gr M193Tracer 1200
.224 62gr FMJ Privi 1000
.40 180gr Plated 1000
.40 165gr FMJ 20
total bullets 5829

Unique Pistol powder 3 lbs for 3684 rounds
Ramshot TAC rifle Powder 12 lbs for 4480 rounds
total powder 15 lbs total rounds 8164

Winchester small Pistol Primers 6300
Magtec small Pistol primers 1000
CCI 400 small Rifle primers 1000
CCI #41 5.56mm Primers 6550
CCI 550 SP Mag primers 2000
total primers 16,850

 

[aka108]

To have 1000's of rounds sounds like overkill but if you shoot on a regular basis it does not take long to run thru those numbers. I shoot between 200 and 400 rds each week. If you do a little division, 10,000 rds is not a big supply.

 

[Plink]

I reload most of my own, so it makes sense to load in bulk rather than to change setup for a dozen different calibers and only load a few boxes each.

For cartridges like 7.62x39 that I don't normally reload for, I tend to buy in volume. Several cases at a time and order more ahead of time before I run out. Some calibers I don't keep as much on hand for because they either don't get shot a lot, or don't fill much of a need in times of crisis. Maybe a box or two for them, or sometimes nothing.

I consider myself a semi-high volume shooter. I don't see how having a few thousand rounds stocked is considered a "long term supply". That's a few weeks at most for many of us.

.22 rimfire is what I stock the most of. I go through about 30-35,000 rounds of it a year, so it only makes sense to buy multiple cases when it's on sale.

 

[fletcher]

I typically keep 500-1000 stocked for everything, and reorder when it's down to ~200 (I let the supply dip now and then).

 

[KevininPa]

Not nearly enough.

 

[Guns and more]

I still chuckle at my co-worker who said:
"I told the fire department, if my house is ever on fire, flood the basement and run!"

 

[Scooter_209]

For my pistols and ar all I will say is 1000+ with supplies to reload at least 10,000 more as needed. for my hunting rifles I only keep 100 - 200 on hand with enough bullets for a couple of hundred more.

 

[LongRider]

Years back we had a brush fire at the other house and fire chief came up the hill to tell me that the fire was contained but that the storage shed was going to be a loss as the houses had to take priority. He hoped I did not have to much of value in it. When I told him his eyes bugged out and he ran out screaming into his radio. They saved it

 

[TStorm]

1000+

No hoarding, no zombies, just a shooter.