How much is too much? (Ammunition)

[Arkansas Paul]

Personally for me, I would rather stock up on components than loaded ammo, but that's just one man's opinion. That way, you can load for what you need. For instance, if you have Unique powder, you could load for nearly any handgun, thus could load for whichever one you need more ammo for.
Anyway, it makes sense in my head.

 

[fallout mike]

Just have to make sure you have primers and bullets as well for all your favorites.

 

[rodregier]

The only time you can have too much is when treading water or hugging it in the middle of a fire

 

[Ignition Override]

The present ammo panic might not be the last we experience, so the choice is to buy some when you have the cash, or be unprepared.
If any of your children enjoy shooting, maybe buy some to prepare them for future panics or import taxes.

Remember, over time a series of small increases in ammo taxes or bans on foreign ammo etc could accumulate and make shooting unaffordable for most people.

 

[sean326]

no such thing as too much.

We have 3 areas of stored ammo.

Totally non tox lead free projectile and primer for our home range, 8 calibers 1,000 rds per caliber. Not carefully inventoried, just restocked when the stack gets to about 10 boxes per caliber.

"shooting shelf" this is ammo for outdoor shooting 1,000 to 2,000 rounds in 15 calibers. Not inventoried just reordered by eye.

Every time a caliber for the "shooting shelf" drops below 1,000 rds we buy 2 cases or 2,000 rds. We put 1 case back up on the shooting shelf and the 2nd case we put into long term storage... Just in case... Ya know zombies, it's not if only when!

Long term storage is now at 38,000 rds carefully inventoried And never tapped.

So all totaled we are at about 60,000 rds.


It doesn't go bad, both my kids shoot so it'll get used and appreciated.

 

[22-rimfire]

Sounds good Sean. I just hope your kids understand what it took to put it there.

 

[rcmodel]

There isn't too much ammo.

Unless you are drowning, on fire, or under government or TV news team investigation for something.

rc

 

[sean326]

Sounds good Sean. I just hope your kids understand what it took to put it there.

Their good kids we all shoot, my older boy is a physics grad student and is happy to shoot a mag every few months through his tricked out 1911, my "little guy" ships out to Parris island in June and is a gun nut like me. 3 times a week at our home range, always a gun under construction and a suppressed sten if something goes bump in the night. I've got guns from my grandfather and dad, they'll get mine. I think our shared interest in guns, shooting and hunting together has been instrumental in creating a very nice, easygoing, drama free family of over achievers.

 

[xjsnake]

I'm relatively new to the hobby so I'm working towards a stock of 1000rds for each caliber I own

 

[NeuseRvrRat]

never enough

 

[NHCraigT]

What is this "ennuff"....that you speak of???

 

[Queen_of_Thunder]

I can shoot upwards of 5,000 to 10,000 rounds a year in pistol calibers so 100,000 rounds sounds like a base line number to work up from. Now if I win the lotto I can build that kind of stash but in the meantime I can only afford a very small fraction of the desired ammo to have on hand. Money and space are my only barriers to building a sufficient stash of ammo.

 

[Queen_of_Thunder]

I'm relatively new to the hobby so I'm working towards a stock of 1000rds for each caliber I own

Thats a good start.

 

[Batty67]

If you are having problem paying bills or providing for your family because of ammo purchases...that's probably not a good thing. As for me, I'm trying to get to 2k rounds of 9mm (I have about 1300), 2000 .30 carbine (also about 1300), and 3k of 45 acp (about 1900). I shoot 45 a lot. I also have about 6k of 22LR.