How much is to much?

[Ditchtiger]

I've run into the nasty part of a good supply of ammo, I'm moving, bought a house.
2 daughters volunteered their husbands and an LGS owner owes me a favor so I get his 18 year old son also.
I looked at the stacks of ammo and said, no way.
I'll wait for help to arrive.

 

[SleazyRider]

"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition"

----Rudyard Kipling

 

[Panzerschwein]

In this day and age, when it comes to the ammunitions not enough is never too much, and too much is never ENOUGH!

 

[Ditchtiger]

"A man can never have too much red wine,

----Rudyard Kipling

Oddly enough I'm drinking it at this moment.

 

[ColtPythonElite]

Round count?

 

[mesinge2]

No such thing as too much ammo.

 

[Ditchtiger]

Round count?

?????

Tell me what you got.
I could give volume, but on hand figure would take some doing.

 

[ColtPythonElite]

?????

Tell me what you got.
I could give volume, but on hand figure would take some doing.

This ain't about what I have. You asked how much is too much. It's kinda hard for us to answer if we don't know what you have and how you use it.

 

[Ignition Override]

Ditchtiger:
Only when you can't afford it do you have too much. Imagine the prices in five years, or when serious talk about banning All imported ammo becomes common.

Otherwise, the question can be a philosophical reflection. And sweat produced while moving ammo has the aroma of freedom, as with burned JP-4/Jet A.

 

[Schwing]

I would say it is too much the day you die and still have ammo

 

[bannockburn]

You can never have enough ammo. And when I relocated several years ago I moved it all myself; took several trips in my truck (also took it from garage to garage), but the fewer the people that know, the better.

 

[larryh1108]

...but the fewer the people that know, the better.

^^ This

Something as simple as the LGS's son mentioning to his buddies that he helped moved 'this guys truckload of ammo' to one of his buddies and you have the opening to some unsavory character finding out about your stash. Innocent discussion turns into a robbery.

 

[huntsman]

Hard to tell if it's bragging or whining.

 

[Blue Duck]

Not enough info. 4 people can't move the ammo without help? Must be quite a load.

 

[Lex Luthier]

I kind of move heavy things for a living.

Palletized, wrapped and forked is the best way.

Smaller secured packed and dollied is usually the way things get done.

Hauling everything two arms at a time sucks. It would seem better planning would prevent such a laborious undertaking. And, you prolly have too much help. If you have too much brass and lead to manage (or any other large collections for that matter), you might consider liquidating a portion of it for the sake of logical material disposition.

I always like to imagine the guy who has to tend to my collections when I go to glory and hopefully plan accordingly. God bless.

 

[zoom6zoom]

Kipling had native bearers that carried everything.

 

[dprice3844444]

you have ammo,wife has shoes

 

[9mmfan]

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Thanks, stolen and made into signature.

Kipling had native bearers that carried everything.

England's imperial phase was a different time.

 

[Comrade Mike]

Need an extra 21 year old set of hands? I'll only ask for 10% of the ammo

 

[lxd55]

look at the cost of 8mm corrosive. steep

 

[TanklessPro]

You only have too much if it will not fit in your new house. If that's the case then kick the kids out and remeasure.

 

[rondog]

"Enough" and "too much" is totally subjective and dependant upon the individual concerned. IMO. Regarding my own stash, I often think "HTH will I ever be able to shoot all this up?" Yet I still make more. Rarely, I'll buy some milsurp rifle ammo, and I'll buy more .22lr given a chance. I prefer to make handloads and squirrel them away. I make up far more than I shoot, that's for sure! And I still salivate at the thought of bringing home more brass from the range.

But, if you have enough ammo to max out the springs on your pickup, or you have serious problems coming up with storage space for it all, you just might be getting close to "enough". At least for awhile, until you can make a second trip or come up with more storage space anyway!

 

[rondog]

Oh, and y'all can have that nasty red wine! Yuk. I'll drink a little bit of a lot of things in the spirit of "trying it", but red wine grosses me out. Not fond of white either. No wines classier than Boone's Farm for me, thank you!

 

[Shovelhead]

If you don't need to rent something that looks like this just to move your ammo...... you don't have "Too much".

 

[larryh1108]

You don't know what you are missing until you have a glass of red wine with some warm, fresh baked bread.