No, they have just done dozens of background checks etc on me over the years.
Amount Of Ammo You Consider Adequate?
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At the moment's it's the wife, and knowing her it'd just go on the lawn with all the rest of my stuff. Guessing half price but if it sat for too long it'd be pennies per box.
Now if it wound up as my kids... they'd probably have no idea what to do.
Well, the executor of my estate will have a huge number of tools to settle...so, there will be many challenges for him/her.
Just in case you wonder this is the correct answer.
Just sayin.
My mil-surp collecting and love of oddball guns has left me with a supply nightmare.. haha. I have dies for over 40 calibers. I don't keep enormous quantities (to me that's over 1k rnds) of anything but the most 'normal' stuff like .22, 9mm, .40 and .223. Although I have close to that much 8mm mauser.
The more the merrier, but 1000 rounds per SHTF caliber you depend on seems reasonable.
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Recently bought another 1K count bag of 1X'd clean 9mm brass...$49/shipped
With the winter we're having there's no better way to spend time loading ammo
After all the new snow is pushed away from driveway & house of course
https://precisionbrass.net/product/9mm/
With the winter we're having there's no better way to spend time loading ammo
After all the new snow is pushed away from driveway & house of course
https://precisionbrass.net/product/9mm/
Getting back into shooting. Happy to see 22lr available. Starting to buy a few boxes any time I'm in a store. Not sure one can have too much 22lr... well it's possible, but still.
I like to reload my 38's but due to primer availability I'm trying to figure out what I'll shoot this year, and then determine what I am willing to spend--as oppose to holding off in hopes that prices will come down. I *think* I have enough stock for 3 years of shooting, so I might wait another year before buying more components.
I like to reload my 38's but due to primer availability I'm trying to figure out what I'll shoot this year, and then determine what I am willing to spend--as oppose to holding off in hopes that prices will come down. I *think* I have enough stock for 3 years of shooting, so I might wait another year before buying more components.
I would have laughed at this post back in 2020 but I just realized, I haven't touched my ammo for like 3 years--more like 5--life got in the way--but had stashed into cans. I'm not laughing now. I might not have packed with desiccant but I'm starting to think I should buy more of these ammo cans "just in case" life happens again.
I do now have a nice dry basement but all the same...
A few thousand .22's and think about reordering when my 9mm/.380 get close to 500 each.
I just recently started buying 40 caliber ammo again. I bought (4) 50 rd. boxes of HERTER'S FMJ 180 gr. for target ammo.
I paid $17.99 per box.
I really don't need any 40 caliber JHP ammo right now but if l see any on sale I will be on it like white on rice!
I have a lot of 9mm and plenty of 5.56/223 but won't say how much here.
I paid $17.99 per box.
I really don't need any 40 caliber JHP ammo right now but if l see any on sale I will be on it like white on rice!
I have a lot of 9mm and plenty of 5.56/223 but won't say how much here.
i have 500 rounds per gun and 5 mags per gun. why 500 per gun? if the shtf , i will be sharing arms with certain folks . lots of folks think having 10k rounds is good. its ok if one is static, but if you have even lugged a combat load around , its not an easy thing .
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I haven’t fired a weapon in a long time, but don’t worry about me. I keep plenty of BBs and two guns at the ready. I’ve also got two bats, just in case it moves to close quarters combat. 
It depends on the scenario, though, doesn’t it?
I didn’t buy ammo for a worst case scenario, the one you‘re considering. I have far more than I can carry in that scenario, so, I’m covered for that scenario.
But that is secondary to my real intent - having enough on hand to weather an economic and/or political shock, while still enjoying my pastime.
We went through one of those shocks in 2012-2014. We just went through another, and are coming out of it now.
So starting in 2015, I started buying ammo when it was cheap, in anticipation of the next shock. In 2019, I got to the point where I could feel comfortable that what I had on hand would see me through the next shock, at might regular participation rate, as well as your potential scenario.
Sucks to be right, sometimes.
5 year supply is starting to sound like a good plan. How many rounds per year? Sounds kinda individual based.
Buying 500 rounds sounds like a small purchase though. I think the only time I've only bought 50 or 100 rounds was as a teenager, buying 22's for an afternoon (hate to think what those cost now, 30 years later!).
Buying 500 rounds sounds like a small purchase though. I think the only time I've only bought 50 or 100 rounds was as a teenager, buying 22's for an afternoon (hate to think what those cost now, 30 years later!).
i like you have ammo that i bought years ago for cheap. i have been into firearms long enough to remember a few dry times. i see the next thing they will come for is ammo . all our boom sticks are just clubs without ammo.
they will either tax the heck out of it or like many states require a back ground check for purchase . or like many countries that still have firearms, regulate the amount one can have
