Primary long-term focus: ammo or guns?

[Mike1234567]

^^^ RE "lead ammo" and possible banning of same: Who's to say that it won't one day be legal to own but illegal to shoot... no matter how long we've owned it?

 

[Warp]

Diversifying has its benefits.

I own numerous weapons chambered for a whole gaggle of cartridges. So do most of my imediate relatives.

The benefit? Litterally ANY cartridge I come across can be shot out of SOMETHING I own.

If it happens that the only cartridges left are 43 Egyptian? I think my uncle has a rolling block that shoot it. See where I'm going with this?

Yes, I stock ammo and mags for primary weapons - but what is it actually hurting to have a few extra guns around?

I'm doing the opposite. I have ammo for which I do not have a firearm. Just one box, generally one box of 20 rounds, but sometimes 50 (usually that's pistol cartridge).

Boy do I have a long ways to go though.

 

[orionengnr]

Provided that one is set up to load for the cartridges that one has firearms chambered in...

Then buying additional arms that will accept those chamberings does not impose an additional burden.

 

[Warp]

Provided that one is set up to load for the cartridges that one has firearms chambered in...

Then buying additional arms that will accept those chamberings does not impose an additional burden.

Opportunity cost.

That $500 9mm pistol could have been 1,700 or more rounds of factory 9x19.

That $1,000 MSR could have been 2,300 or more rounds of factory 5.56.

A couple examples that might pertain to me using common purchase prices of popular arms and munitions in the current market.

If you want to take the reloader's accounting perspective, figure out how many rounds worth of components you could have had for the price of that gun. That's your 'cost', as it pertains to this thread, and the either/or between arms and ammo.

 

[JSH1]

Long term focus? Saving for early retirement and travel. Neither guns nor ammo register very high on my list of priorities.

Right now I have:

• Mosin,
• H&R 732 revolver in .32 S&W long
• FEG pistol in .32 ACP
• Mossberg 12 gauge pump
• H&R single shot with .410 and 20 gauge barrels.

I shoot my .22 air rifle more than any of my firearms since I can shoot 10 meters in my garage for pennies a round. I'm looking to get rid of the 12 gauge and .32 acp because they don't interest me.

Possible future purchases:

• 20 gauge double barrel
• Single-Six in .32 H&R

I've thought about a .22 but I'm reluctant because it is just another gun to sit in the closet. I doubt I would shoot it enough to justify the purchase.

I would like to start reloading .32 not because I worry about a lack of supply but because it sounds interesting.

I make it to the range about once a month and usually shoot 100 rounds of either pistol or clays. For ammo I have:

• 7.62x54R (300 rounds)
• .32 S&W Long (350 rounds)
• .32 ACP (50 rounds)
• 12 ga (100 rounds)
• 20 ga (250 rounds)
• .410 (25 rounds)

 

[tomrkba]

Buy based upon effective range and be able to score effective hits at short (handgun), medium (carbine) and long (precision rifle) range. Maintain two years worth of training, plinking and fighting ammo--whatever that is for you. Buy a reloader and have components onhand.

ALWAYS BE RICH IN 22 LONG RIFLE!