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Old 09-20-2013, 07:50 PM
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Is there any such thing as having too much ammunition? I think I may be there by a long shot. Here is the list:

-.308/7.62x51 - roughly 3000 rounds.
-223 - roughly 3500 rounds.
-556 - roughly 3500 rounds.
-45 acp - roughly 2000 rounds.
-45 colt - roughly 1000 rounds.
-40 caliber - roughly 1500 rounds.
-5.7 - roughly 1000 rounds.
-38 +P - 1200 rounds.
-357 magnums DPX - 1200 rounds.
-450 Bushmasters (Hornady) - 1000 rounds.
-s&w 460's - roughly 300 rounds.
-s&w 454 Casull - roughly 300 rounds.
-410 double 00 buck - roughly 500 rounds.
-12 gauge 00 buck - roughly 300 rounds.
-380 Beretta Cheetah 13-rounds to the mag - 300 last stand rounds.

I think I got a tad carried away over the years...
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Please take it all to the little black van that will be pulling up out front!
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The only time you can have too much ammo is when you are either swimming or on fire.
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Is there any such thing as having too much ammunition? I think I may be there by a long shot. Here is the list:

-.308/7.62x51 - roughly 3000 rounds.
-223 - roughly 3500 rounds.
-556 - roughly 3500 rounds.
-45 acp - roughly 2000 rounds.
-45 colt - roughly 1000 rounds.
-40 caliber - roughly 1500 rounds.
-5.7 - roughly 1000 rounds.
-38 +P - 1200 rounds.
-357 magnums DPX - 1200 rounds.
-450 Bushmasters (Hornady) - 1000 rounds.
-s&w 460's - roughly 300 rounds.
-s&w 454 Casull - roughly 300 rounds.
-410 double 00 buck - roughly 500 rounds.
-12 gauge 00 buck - roughly 300 rounds.
-380 Beretta Cheetah 13-rounds to the mag - 300 last stand rounds.

I think I got a tad carried away over the years...
I foresee a tragic boating accident in your future.
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It looks like a good place to start building a supply. When you physically can't get to the refrigerator, then you have about enough.

I don't see any .33 Winchester or 12.7x44R on that list.
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Looks about right for a young guy, barring any firefights :-)
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That looks like a starter amount to me.
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There can be if you have t move it. A friend of mine in St. Louis stored my ammo when was sent to Korea by Uncle Sam. When I came back they put me in Denver. I made a quick run to StL for some of my guns and ammo. I brought back about 1/3 of it and it totaled to 155 lbs. That's a lot to hump up and down basement stairs.
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You can tell if you have too much ammo and components. Remember those, because components equal more ammo. If you have to move to another place, you'll soon know if you have to much. Unless you've got someone strong and foolish, you have to hump it all yourself. Its only a full order of magnitude worse if you've got a basement (thats where most folks store their gun stuff, due to wifely commands.) If you've been reloading steadily for the last 40 or so years, your ammo hoard is bigger but cheaper.

Having ammo is just like having guns. You know when you have too much. No one's opinion is important other than yours. Your opinion is controlling.
If you don't have a gun in a caliber you have ammo, you probably have too much. You can also have too much if the load you have isn't one you shoot. You can tell that you have enough because you have no motivation to buy more of that caliber or loading. You might have too much overall when you dread lifting ammo cans to find the one you want.
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What's worse than have too much ammo? Not having enough ammo.
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What no .22lr?

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No 7.62x39mm??? You either are seriously low on a key caliber or have a serious hole in your collection. In either case please correct it before is too late

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I'm not familiar with the term " to much ammo", sound like something people would say in far off and strange lands.
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What no .22lr?

What, and risk being called a low down, bottom feeding, puppy killing, price gouging Ammo Hoarder?
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Pretty good stash.
I have
.40 cal approx 2500 target and 200 defensive
7.62x39 approx 1200
.38/.357 approx 200
30-30 approx 250
.22lr approx 2200
12ga approx 50(slugs buck n target)
20ga approx 100 (slugs n target)

Just got my 12 & 357 and I rarely shoot the 20 but Im working on increasing my inventory of those now.
I also replace what I shoot as I shoot it

I dont hoard so much as I snag it when I find it and have the spare cash for it.
Better to have ammo for the guns than not. Without ammo its a great club or hammer
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Not too much ammo - too little shooting!
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I was digging through some stuff a while ago looking for something when I discovered an ammo can with 1000 rounds of 7.62x39 Norinco ammo I forgot I had! It was like Christmas.

Maybe I have too much ammo.
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What will you use next weekend?

I've found that I have hundreds of rounds for guns I don't even own. Speaking of which- anybody got an idea what to do with 22 Jet ammo?
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I've found that I have hundreds of rounds for guns I don't even own. Speaking of which- anybody got an idea what to do with 22 Jet ammo?
Welcome to the Forum! I would suggest posting a "want to sell" ad in the appropriate section here. Someone will buy that ammo!
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Stashing Ammo is like shoveling the driveway in Winter in MI... the snow is only a problem when you run out of places to put it...
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The short answer, "That's all you have?"
Where is the 22LR ammo? None???

Carried away? Not so much...
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I think you double counted: .223 and 5.56?
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If your house is starting to settle crooked towards your stash then maybe you are overdoing it. Then again, ......
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Is there any such thing as having too much ammunition? I think I may be there by a long shot. Here is the list:

-.308/7.62x51 - roughly 3000 rounds.
-223 - roughly 3500 rounds.
-556 - roughly 3500 rounds.
-45 acp - roughly 2000 rounds.
-45 colt - roughly 1000 rounds.
-40 caliber - roughly 1500 rounds.
-5.7 - roughly 1000 rounds.
-38 +P - 1200 rounds.
-357 magnums DPX - 1200 rounds.
-450 Bushmasters (Hornady) - 1000 rounds.
-s&w 460's - roughly 300 rounds.
-s&w 454 Casull - roughly 300 rounds.
-410 double 00 buck - roughly 500 rounds.
-12 gauge 00 buck - roughly 300 rounds.
-380 Beretta Cheetah 13-rounds to the mag - 300 last stand rounds.

I think I got a tad carried away over the years...
Silly Rookie....
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Speaking of which- anybody got an idea what to do with 22 Jet ammo?
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Foolish boy. It means you're stacking it all on one side. Ever put stuff in a pickup truck or boat. When its leaning, get more and put it on the other side. They even out just fine when you do that.

Back in my teens, I had a job at a filling station, pumpin' ethyl. We had a regular custome who drove a '60 Ferd. the guy was tall and skinny, but his wife, well, not so much. They had a daughter that took after her mother. And when she rode with them she sat behind her mother (guess the dad had his seat back too far.) When it was just mom and dad, the car was listing to starboard badly. When the 3 of them drove in, there wasn't much ground clearance at all on that side. So I guess it bottomed out more than once.

The father brought it in to see if we could do anything. I suggested to the station manager (my buddies dad) that we should just install a set of spring lifters in the coils. It worked just fine, except that side rode about 2" higher when the wifey wasn't along. Still, it beat bottoming out when she was.
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What the hell are you thinking??

Only 300 rounds of 12 ga? And no 7.62x39? You haven't even started yet.
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I don't think so. You do have a comfortable supply, but need to preserve it. If i was you, and i have similar stocks, I'd continue to enjoy my self cautiously with shooting, and add to the supply when you come across a good deal. i have supply back to the 1994 scare, and am working off of that now. Keep doing what you are doing.
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I think you double counted: .223 and 5.56?
They are different. Don't blow up your 223 shooting 556's unless the manufacturer states your AR15 is made to handle both calibers.
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They are different. Don't blow up your 223 shooting 556's unless the manufacturer states your AR15 is made to handle both calibers.
That would be a really ****** .223 rifle if it "blows up" when you shoot 5.56 in it.

Yeah, you have a respectable starter amount...as others have said. You do need to get a .22 rifle and handgun, and 5-10 thousand rounds, for a starter.

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Apparently OP has nothing to hide from us all. Having all that ammo doesnt primarily mean he is a threat. I think he is just gathering ammo in case dinosaurs return to reek havoc on human population.

Also, great choice on the .308/7.62x51. I like it better than 7.62x39.

And you do not have too much ammo, keep them coming.

I only have 1,000 rounds of .22lr. I'm surely not too far behind from you. I am just preparing for any varmints that may reek havoc on my property.
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Other than the tier one manufacturers (Colt, BCM, DD, KAC and one or two others), the odds are that if you took a chamber reamer to most AR type rifles, you would get a lot of metal out. Very few are actually built to a true 5.56X45 chamber, NO MATTER WHAT THEY ARE LABELED.

That's not too much ammo, BTW. I am to a great extent trying to limit my variety in calibers, but otherwise some of my stash looks similar. I agree with the comments above - .22LR is something of which you should have 10K or more rounds.
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I don't like to have mine sit around forever. it depends on how much you shoot, why keep more than you could use in a lifetime and tell people you have that much? may as well paint a bullseye on your house for people to take it from you if the shtf. to the people at lgs's that just love to tell total strangers about the 100's of guns and pallets of ammo they have, I just say, that will be me following you when you leave, to see where you live, in case I run out. More than you could pack in a vehicle if you had to bug out would just go to looters anyway.

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I don't like to have mine sit around forever. it depends on how much you shoot, why keep more than you could use in a lifetime and tell people you have that much? ....
Hangnoose, I couldn't agree more. And I think you will agree that we can no longer rely on the ability to simply buy ammo on an as-needed basis. I believe I need to have an ammunition "savings account" just as I have a retirement savings account, in order to do that which I want to do in the future.

The question becomes - how much is enough/too much? At what point does saving become hoarding? Having more on hand than one can use in a lifetime is indeed hoarding. Having enough to keep me able to keep my weekly range date is wise.

I think I need enough to carry over one election cycle. That is to say, there is a Presidential election in 2016 and I feel the "Other Guys" will prevail so I need to keep enough ammunition to last through that cycle, which takes me to the year 2020.

Okay, how much ammo do I need to carry me through a seven-year span? This is simple enough, I calculate how much I shoot on a monthly basis and multiply.

I shoot, on average, 400 rounds of handgun ammunition per month. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but 400 is a good "guess". I shoot 9mm, 38 spl and 45 acp. Pretty much an even mix.

So, 400x12 equals 4800 rounds per year. Multiply that by 7 years equals 33,600 rounds.

Conservatively, I should try to maintain a level of 10,000 rounds each of 9 MM, 38 SPL., and 45 ACP.

As far as someone coming to my house, I've used my credit cards at enough places that NSA knows who I am if they're interested. Anyone else? Hey I'm "Blujax in C-Bus" Come on over and I'll put on the coffee...
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My wife is 10 years younger then me. I have two lifetimes I believe but she don't shoot much center fire rifle. Be prepared.

If one is conservative, there might even be enough to visit Mr Iggy two or three times to help out with his range control problems.
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BLUE, You are fortunate. I never did the math, but would need a warehouse and a forklift to store enough ammo for a couple of election terms. I don't like to advertise that I even own guns, which of course I don't since being born again, and HOPE the site and true identity info is SOMEWHAT protected from MOST, certainly not from a gov't agency like the nsa/whoever, if they really wanted to know. Since a car accident in 2010 forced to retire app 13 years before scheduled, I have a lot of time. at first I couldn't shoot AT ALL, then started left handed working to right handed with my middle finger, now fairly normal but still can't hold freehand for more than a few seconds and my range of motion & shotgun swing really stink. shooting, typing on forums and reloading is my physical therapy + being something I enjoy. I really haven't changed MY supply levels much in decades & I think more in terms of months, not years depending on how much each gun would get shot. some I may very well have a lifetime supply as I just can't shoot them yet due to recoil. I did drop a mtg payment on reloading supplies & bought app 6 guns right up to the night of the election. I don't live in a bunker & wouldn't want to turn my house into fort apache. I have no fantasy of my wife and I being able to fend off a determined mob for very long. Another thing to consider is a fire. If the fire dept knew you had a warehouse of ammo, they would likely let your house burn, than risk their men. If it get's used & you can afford it more power to you and enjoy it. obviously not all of our financial and shooting situations are the same.
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Too much ammo????

Building codes are pretty good these days, but I guess it is theoretically possible to have too much. I wouldn't recommend exceeding 40 lbs/sq ft on a floor with wood joists. That translates to 8000 lbs evenly distributed in a 20' x 10' room.

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sounds good to me. Need more 454 Casull, though
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Is there any such thing as having too much ammunition? I think I may be there by a long shot. Here is the list:

-.308/7.62x51 - roughly 3000 rounds.
-223 - roughly 3500 rounds.
-556 - roughly 3500 rounds.
-45 acp - roughly 2000 rounds.
-45 colt - roughly 1000 rounds.
-40 caliber - roughly 1500 rounds.
-5.7 - roughly 1000 rounds.
-38 +P - 1200 rounds.
-357 magnums DPX - 1200 rounds.
-450 Bushmasters (Hornady) - 1000 rounds.
-s&w 460's - roughly 300 rounds.
-s&w 454 Casull - roughly 300 rounds.
-410 double 00 buck - roughly 500 rounds.
-12 gauge 00 buck - roughly 300 rounds.
-380 Beretta Cheetah 13-rounds to the mag - 300 last stand rounds.

I think I got a tad carried away over the years...

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The only problem I see is there is no mention of 10mm, .44 magnum, or 50 AE handgun ammo or .243, .270, .325 WSM, or .45/70 rifle ammo.

Anyone with more ammo than me is a hoarder and anyone with less is unprepared.
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Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it! My question is, where do you store all of it. If you ever run out of space my safe has some room for it!
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This short answer is no.

In the past, when ammo was easily available, I would buy it if it was cheaper than I could reload (factoring in the cost of brass). I accumulated a modest amount.
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Too much ammo? Is that like too much coffee, too many custard filled donuts, too much sex, or just too little shooting?
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