Two best reasons
spasm3 "Because I can, I don't have to have a need."
Astro indicated 200 rounds every that's 5k a year. of 4 years. Not excessive.
Eat or be eaten. Were I as smart as Astro, I would not have gone out in the last 5months and buy 2K rounds of lower "quality" at triple the price. In this country some people eat and others are eaten..toilet paper, alcohol,...when this is over, I will start using my brain again.
oh yea Zeeosix's post..
Learned my lesson
I'm not that smart, it’s just that I got caught in 2012 when the prices spiked.
For over two years, I struggled to find ammo at reasonable prices. I had alerts set up from Midway USA (who never raised their prices, by the way, earning my enduring loyalty) but I couldn’t always act fast enough. My shooting hobby, not to mention my proficiency shooting, was really hampered by a lack of ammo, or ammo at crazy prices, tripling the cost of a range session
When prices returned to normal, I planned for another crisis. I bought lots of ammo from 2015-2019.
How much I’ve got now is not a number I’m willing to share, particularly with the self-righteous who would like to judge how much I “need”, but I have enough to see me through this current crisis.
As an example, I bought a new gun last week. It has some issues (I’ll post up a range report on that when I’ve got time) and I went through 400+ rounds sorting it out. If I were to buy every available box, at every local store, I could not have put together that much ammo, and I would’ve paid a small fortune for it.
However, the ammo came from my stash, which was bought from
www.sgammo.com when prices were reasonable. I’ve got plenty of that caliber left.
I will add that if you’ve got a box or two, and you think that’s enough to maintain proficiency with a firearm for a year, you and I have very, very different ideas on what is meant by proficiency.
Let me also add that having firearms in a variety of calibers is a way to mitigate this crisis. I have one carry/duty gun, but for my shooting hobby, I’ve got a variety. When I walked through two of my local gun stores recently, I found 10mm and .30-40 Krag in stock at reasonable prices. 9mm and 5.56mm were either nonexistent, or marked up to three times normal.