What % of ammo is stored and untouchable?

[Ignition Override]

Do most guys lack self-discipline?
After last winter's post-election panic (with the gullible manipulated by many shop staff and scalpers....), curious whether guys store about half or more of their ammo in cans with silica, with the self-discipline to never touch this fraction for years, or decades.

Want to store about 90% of my surplus .303 due to the fact that it is very difficult to buy now, maybe 80% surplus 8mm, and about half of Wolf/Monarch 7.62x39.

 

[azyogi]

"Untouchable" none. Will only shoot when I can replace/reload 80% rotate your stock first in first shot, unless it's spam can type storage. Still rotate what you can.

 

[dakotasin]

i never outshoot my components. if i don't have primers, bullets, and powders to load what i shoot, i just leavy my loaded stuff alone.

on top of that, there are a couple chamberings/guns i keep a certain amount of loaded reserve ammo in waterproof containers and silica packs. most rifle chamberings (except varminters) never drop below 100 loaded rounds. varminters (ar-15's and such) never drop below 1000. those thresholds would be my extreme emergency stashes. for general hunting, range use, or whatever, i have seperate 100 round boxes for each rifle.

i have no idea what my percentages are.

i do know that i did not have to curtail my shooting activities at all for the great obama panic, and i never bottomed out in round count.

 

[AR-15 Rep]

I never go under 10k rounds .223 or 5.56mm for my personal stash

 

[tactikel]

I rotate most ammo. I never go under 50% of what I can handload (if I have 1000 .223 cases- I keep at least 500 loaded at all times). Nothing is untouchable, I like to practice with a mixture of target, hunting and SD loads to keep "on" with each load.

 

[elmerfudd]

I've probably got 10,000 rounds of various calibers set aside as I believe in buying in bulk when things are cheap, but there's none set away for TEOTWAWKI. I'll shoot any and all of it up as I feel like it and if I run out that's when I'll either buy more or break out the reloading gear if I still feel like shooting that particular rifle.

 

[taliv]

also rotate my stash

also reload, but i buy in bulk, so my components swing pretty wildly. i don't replace them as i use them. i replace them as i find deals. much cheaper that way

 

[BCCL]

I rotate, and keep only a few boxes of each caliber in my gun vault, while the rest is "stored" away.

 

[hodge88]

I get nervous when I get below 1000 rnds per weapon especially my AR and my hk usp tactical.

 

[TexasRifleman]

curious whether guys store about half or more of their ammo in cans with silica

Seems a bit much..... I'm shooting 40 year old ammo that was stored in a hot Russian warehouse and it's fine. Not gonna get too worked up about the storage methods

 

[boatmanschneider]

I like to keep enough ammo on hand to load each of my guns at least twice. So I guess you can say I rotate my "stock" on a regular basis.

 

[mljdeckard]

I got caught almost dry when the crisis hit, and that WILL NOT happen again. I have a cushion for every gun and I won't shoot through it.

 

[W.E.G.]

Mega-ammo-piles are all well and good.

But, hope you never have to move it all at once.

http://www.falfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=282426

 

[-v-]

Would anyone like to hazard a guess on the cost of moving roughly 6000 lbs. of ammo from NM to WV? Just looking for a ballpark figure.

Oh my....

 

[Matt-J2]

Pretty much none. I have components on hand, and ML supplies, but even those are limited. Just don't have the income for much stockpiling at this time.

 

[cyclopsshooter]

my house boat sank and i lost my stash

 

[Ignition Override]

If only I had become interested in guns years ago, would not be so curious about this, and hope this topic is not being 'nosy'.

Am a brand-new reloader (so far only for Prvi .303) and mostly interested in milsurps: the Lee-Enfield #4/#5 and Yugo Mauser, plus the SKS/Mini 30.
Plan to buy an M-1 Garand in the Anniston CMP store later this year.

Don't want to be buying either x39 or much surplus (scarcer) 8mm Mauser when prices have gone up much some day, with future inflation taken into account, or an actual new bill/exec. order in DC helps to initiate a longer-lasting panic. Future relations with Russian or Serbia ('Yugo') could go downhill and be expensive.

 

[halfded]

I rotate ammo like I rotate food, first in, first out. I like to keep a buffer too on minimum count, especially for HD guns. .22 is easy to stockpile being so cheap; I just buy 500 or 1k at a time (where they'll let me, stupid walmart).

With all the snow we've been getting I've all but exhausted my reloading supplies, and filled my ammo cans. Need to order more components...