How much is enough? Brass, bullets etc

[Grandpa Shooter]

This is purely hypothetical. You don't have to expose yourselves at all.

Let's say you are an avid shooter and want to be well supplied so that you can enjoy your sport well into the future. What in theory would be an adequate supply of components? What got me thinking of it was that I was looking into a different way to store brass, not wanting it to tarnish and all that.

So how much is enough?

 

[JamisJockey]

Enough is whatever you decide it is. Who am I to decide if you have too much brass, primers, ammo, or powder?

 

[MakAttak]

Well, as I can't guess, I will remind you that the amount of brass will be significantly outnumbered by primers/powder/bullets etc... as brass can be re-used.

 

[Eric F]

depends For my Model 8 remingtom 100 brass is plenty as I do not shoot it 30-remington

My pistol? enough is never met

for my 50-90 sharps a few pounds here a few pieces there a few more pounds of this and a couple of hundres of that is what I shoot a year.

 

[rockinrussky]

Enough? There's no such thing.

When I was justifying to a co-worker that I was getting my fourth (or was it fifth?) firearm, he told me bluntly "you will never have enough, there will only be more and more down the road." I think its the same way with ammo/components, so unless you live in a multi-story house with weak floors I see no harm in stockpiling as much as financially viable.

 

[Walkalong]

Don't know. I would like a warehouse full, if I could afford it.

 

[BlindJustice]

Let's see mental inventoary
New, unfired
1,000 Starline brass .45 ACP
1,000 Starline brass .45 Auto Rim
500 Starline brass .400 CorBon
500 Starline brass .357 Magnum

Bullets
500 .451 Hornady 200 gr. XTP JHP
500 .451 Hornady 200 gr. TC-FMJ
500 .451 Leadhead 200 gr. SWC
500 .451 Leadhead 225 gr. TC-BB
500 - .401 Leadhead 155 gr. SWC
250 - .357 Leadhead 158 gr. SWC

just waffling on what to load them at
velocity wise. and decide on a jHP for
the .357 Mag.

how about thinking of it as A Good Start

?

 

[Urbana John]

I've got enough now!!!!




If I die tomorrow------hope I won't, so I'll just keep "stock piling"

 

[Cosmoline]

When I fill up a Model 60 Knaack industrial box, I will be satisfied.

 

[Grandpa Shooter]

Interesting responses. I wasn't asking how much I should have. If you ask most people they would say I already have too much. As I told one of the members, if 50 will do, I will have 500.

I was just curious how much other people think is "enough" to have on hand. Especially considering the spot shortages that seem to be cropping up all over the country.

 

[M2 Carbine]

I don't know how many components I've got but it must not be enough because I still keep buying.

 

[556nato]

Enough? Enough? What's the meaning of this word?
I figure when my floor collapses and automatically moves my ammunition to the basement, it's a good start.

 

[Johnnybgood]

More!

 

[DogBonz]

when is enough?

When you have to buy a bigger house to fit it all into... But then you have more room... so you can buy more.... so, I guess that enough is never enough.

 

[The Deer Hunter]

Literal houses of reloading components and ammo.

 

[scout26]

When your house starts to list to one side......(or sinks/collaspes).

I probably have well over 10,000 empty shotgun hulls. I've probably got half again that many loaded. Yet everytime we're at our club, I'm head down in the garbage cans trying to grab that last STS hull, even though it's floating in coffee, chawspit, or G_d knows what....

First thing my 7yo son does when we get the club......knocks over the garbage cans and climbs in, looking for good hulls.

I add at least 100 hulls to my collection each time we go. After a Sporting Clays event, we've come home with a dollar store mesh laundry hamper overflowing.

I got a Winchester Model '94 in .32 Win Spec. I hunt in Illinois (shotgun only) so I don't use it to hunt. We (my 14yo daughter and I) shoot maybe 100-150 rounds a year through it just plinking.......I've got 472 loaded rounds and enough primers, bullets and powder for another 600. I only had enough for 500, but bought another 100 lead bullets at the Kane County Gun Show last week. I almost bought 200.......

If I had the brass, I'd have more loaded, which means I'd need to buy more primers and bullets......It's a vicious cycle.

 

[txgho1911]

what is an oxymoron? "enough brass, bullets, and powder"

 

[txgho1911]

what is an oxymoron? "enough brass, bullets, and powder"
I may be using the wrong word here.

 

[Javelin]

Haha. This could go on and on

 

[nbkky71]

Plenty of brass in the garage.
... 3,000 pieces of .45ACP brass
... 5,000 pieces of 9mm brass
... one 25mm ammo can full of .308 brass
... and three 5gal paint buckets full of LC .223 brass

 

[InfidelCastro]

I have a hunch that ammo will become highly regulated in the future, so I like to collect as much as possible. Even if I don't use it I still know plenty of other people who could.

 

[Grandpa Shooter]

I have a hunch that ammo will become highly regulated in the future, so I like to collect as much as possible. Even if I don't use it I still know plenty of other people who could.

My thoughts exactly. I'm bagging it up for the long haul.

 

[tnieto2004]

I like to have about 2,000 rounds of my SHTF rifle and the about 2,000 rounds of my SHTF pistol that I don't ever touch .. Anything else, for me, is for the range..

 

[CU74]

I'm 65 years old and have long subscribed to the "Buy It Cheap, Stack It Deep" philosophy of ammunition "management". Factoring in my age, it is unlikely that I will have a need to purchase brass.
However, given the trend toward socialism in this country, I see a great need for powder, primers and bullets. I am making a sustained and methodical effort to meet that need............

 

[-terry]

A lot of really stupid "cute" replies to this thread.

For me, I have for reloading:

3500 for .45 ACP
5000 for 9 mm

Factory:
500 .45 ACP
1300 for 9 mm
2000 for .22LR