Jason_W
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Or why I'm going to be buying ammo for guns I don't have yet.
Just as I start to get back into shooting after having to sell most everything a few years ago California (the state where I'm stuck for the foreseeable future) passes an asinine assortment of new gun laws, one of the most onerous of which is a law that will require California shooters to spend $50 for the privilege of buying ammo as well as having to pass a background check to buy so much as a box of birdshot.
I refuse to ever submit to such authoritarianism, so my idea is to stockpile as much ammo as I can afford before the law goes into effect in 2018.
That means that in addition to stockpiling ammo for the three guns I own, I need to anticipate future needs and wants and buy ammo for guns I'll own in the future.
I currently have guns chambered for .44 mag (Marlin 1894), 20 gauge (Remington 870 express) and .410 (old Braztech singe shot). The last one is mostly a keepsake that I honestly haven't fired in years.
What I'm trying to figure out is the bare minimum of shotgun, rifle and handgun chamberings to plan on having to cover every reasonable shooting niche I might encounter. My primary niches, of course are plain old fun followed by home defense. I'd like to hunt again some day, but that seems like a really expensive endeavor for someone in urban California. If I do figure out how to hunt out here, the largest animal I'm likely to go after will the itty bitty blacktail deer that are in the foothills and coastal region. I refuse to pay the state money to their pest control for them (feral hog) and Elk licenses are lottery drawn and I learned not to bother with those via the moose lotteries back in Vermont and Maine.
I'm not opposed to buying multiple guns chambered in the same round but set up for different purposes.
Just as I start to get back into shooting after having to sell most everything a few years ago California (the state where I'm stuck for the foreseeable future) passes an asinine assortment of new gun laws, one of the most onerous of which is a law that will require California shooters to spend $50 for the privilege of buying ammo as well as having to pass a background check to buy so much as a box of birdshot.
I refuse to ever submit to such authoritarianism, so my idea is to stockpile as much ammo as I can afford before the law goes into effect in 2018.
That means that in addition to stockpiling ammo for the three guns I own, I need to anticipate future needs and wants and buy ammo for guns I'll own in the future.
I currently have guns chambered for .44 mag (Marlin 1894), 20 gauge (Remington 870 express) and .410 (old Braztech singe shot). The last one is mostly a keepsake that I honestly haven't fired in years.
What I'm trying to figure out is the bare minimum of shotgun, rifle and handgun chamberings to plan on having to cover every reasonable shooting niche I might encounter. My primary niches, of course are plain old fun followed by home defense. I'd like to hunt again some day, but that seems like a really expensive endeavor for someone in urban California. If I do figure out how to hunt out here, the largest animal I'm likely to go after will the itty bitty blacktail deer that are in the foothills and coastal region. I refuse to pay the state money to their pest control for them (feral hog) and Elk licenses are lottery drawn and I learned not to bother with those via the moose lotteries back in Vermont and Maine.
I'm not opposed to buying multiple guns chambered in the same round but set up for different purposes.