I've been following the thread regarding the "# of pmags" per AR and was curious what everyone thought about ammo.

I am collecting a 'reserve' of 1200 rounds (223/556) for my Sport.
(I have always kept that much in each caliber of handgun ammo that I use). I shoot regularly and 'replenish' what I use as I can... still only half way to my goal for 223/556...

Thanks. Eric

I may have 200 rounds on hand. However, I have components on hand to load several hundred more as time permits.

never enough.

I am down to about 1k rounds per caliber and can't wait until the mania is over. Except .22lr....I am about 2500. I'm thinking never under 5k rounds again, if I can help it. (and at least double for 22)

It's funny how you think you have enough until you can't get any.
I'm around 500+/- rounds now and always looking for more.

I have one load of 5.56 55-gr. ball ammo, to fill all my 20 round Mini-14 magazines.
Geoff
Who passed up too many 420 round cans waiting for a sale. Sale came, but it was all sold out ahead of time...sigh...

I just started in 5.56 and I think I will want to keep at least 1500 on hand at all times.

I try to keep 1000 of each handgun caliber, letting it get down to 500 before I order another case, then I have 1500. So sometimes I have less and sometimes more.

A bump-fire stock will let you burn through 30 rounds in a few seconds!

__________________
Kirk / Spock 2020

When it comes to ammo, there is no such thing as "Too Much".

I only have about half a case on hand today of plinking ammo. I also have a couple hundred rounds of xm193, but the range I shoot at does not allow FMJ, so those are my stash rounds. I was building that up slowly.

On .22lr, I am down to close to 2000 rounds. That doesn't sound bad until I donate a brick or two to the Boy Scout council to keep the boys shooting this summer.

Have about half a flat of shotgun shells left over from bird hunting and clays last year. Time to buy more of that since we are moving into shotgun season. Just bought my son a new Beretta A300 Outlander, moving him up from his Mossberg 500 youth...so he is very eager to go hit the skeet and sporting clays fields.

How much money have you got? At today's prices, I think the issue is financial not additional inventory.

My 223 supply for 5 rifles and two handguns is about five 50 cal ammo cans bulk packed full. Single shot handguns are ammo frugalicious, but are mags come either full or quickly empty.

__________________
S&WHF 366

When I bought my first AR last year I thought I'd be OK with having 1000 rounds on hand. Since then, a lot has happened so I've been building up my .22 and .223 stock.

Since I work from home I can spend more time than most looking for good deals, but I would be the first to admit that I've gone a little nutty, but I'd rather have enough to shoot for a year or two.

As of now, I have a tad over 7500 rounds of .223/5.56 and haven't spent more than .40/cents a round for any of it.

Saw on TV the other day where they busted this guy with several guns, including one that looked like an assault gun(shotgun), and they said he had some twenty hundred rounds of ammunition and about 550 rounds of casings where he had been practicing. What is up with that, anyway? Sometimes a can or two of .223 is an ample supply, but for God's sake don't go and do something stupid.

There ya go...

__________________
Jorge

I believe "an ample supply" is an individual call.

My wife and I are retired and both shoot competitive high power rifle. What we consider ample will probably be different from the amount a 22 year old fresh out of college and working overtime to make ends meet with his new wife and child would consider ample.

I think it all depends on your style of shooting. Are you a plinker or maybe you like to varmint hunt. You might even be a competitive shooter like Michigan. It all comes down to your needs and wants. Before all this ammo maddness, Me and the family could go thru 1000 in a day of plinking. Do we do that now, no way. Before this ammo thing, 5-6000 rounds kept us good, Now I feel good having 1000 rounds total.

__________________
15T,15-22,5946 & some not S&W

As much as you can comfortably carry x 25

__________________
Regards,
Guy-Harold Smith II

My ammo stocks are in good shape, but now is the time to dust off the golf clubs. The longer we continue to buy ammo at these prices, the harder it will be for them to go back down to something alot more reasonable.

I'm almost embarrassed by the panic that surrounds the shooting world right now.

In fact, it is ridiculous.

AMF

Chuck

What are your intentions? If for SHTF then 10000 rounds would probably in your eyes not be enough. If for shooting and target practice whatever you shoot in a weekend or two. You probably are having problems getting any ammo now so you probably wish you had a warehouse full. Go for whatever you can afford and can reasonably store without putting the wife's cloths and washer and dryer outside. For shooting no matter what you have stocked up, it will be shot up sooner or later if ammo doesn't loosen up. If you reload then you still have to rely on powder, primers, projectiles which you can make yourself, and brass, brass does wear out, being available. Me I have min of 1K per caliber I have to be used in emergency only, and for shooting when ammo was loose just went out and bought for the weekend. With times like now I just do something else until ammo becomes available because I'm not feeding the gougers, and like I've posted before if I have to shoot I like my pellet guns for now. Like the mag, gun, knife speculation everyone talks about now you can never have enough because they are hard to get but before this what you had was good enough or you would have bought everything you could find and afford. It's a personal call, and your decision as to what's enough.

Reserve for what?
10,000 if you practice and shoot IPSC 3 gun, might be enough.

To defend hearth and home the single loaded 30 round mag you have in the rifle should do it.

10,000 for shtf? That's silly. You are not going to live through multiple fire fights.

Emory

__________________
Hard To Kill

Like Homeland Security, I think you need "up to 1.6 billion rounds," or whatever that solicitation for bids said.

How much is "some twenty hundred" ?

__________________
THIS WE'LL DEFEND ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ

Too lazy to go check the bunker and count.

Myself,I'm dusting off the fishing poles. Also time to drop the blower off the Deere and put the deck back on.

__________________
THIS WE'LL DEFEND ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ

I've got 500 or so rounds. I'm looking to get up to 1200-1500. I'm just a plinker though.

I am low on tracers a few mag dumps will hurt my supply, but with all the snow now is a good time. 223 is at the highest prices I have seen in my 50+ years, locally 1K is going for 675$. I think you should have enough for your use- self/home protection I would like 6 30rd mags at least, getting to know the gun? maybe 100-200, SHTF -Happiness is a belt fed!! Guns, mags, ammo may be starting to turn the corner, lets hope it continues. You should try to get through this time but do not forget it, next "TIME", power grid, snow storm, natural disaster go down you can work on other items that might be needed. I started in 1995 and I look at 22 lr ammo as money. Where I live trading for goods with ammo would not be unusual if it came to that, but most of the time I find that I would rather help a neighbor/friend then get anything from it. Reality is that it usually gets "paid" back when ever I need something and that the way I prefer it. Be Smart, Be Safe,

__________________
I BACK OUR BLUE

In my opinion CDDANJR has it right on the mark. I shoot as a winter sport and play golf during the warmer weather. There's more to life than hoarding ammo. As a wiser man than me once said "Illegitimi Non Carborundum"

I think it's better to plan on surviving than to plan on dying.

I figure if the SHTF or if the zombie apocalypse happens because of some new black plague, or a foreign country invades, or maybe the economy goes belly up and it's every man for himself...... At that time you won't be able to buy ammo online or at a LGS for any amount of money. At that time the only ammo you get will be what you have and what you can find. You may have to defend your home and family multiple times against multiple attackers.

You can't buy bread a week after the hurricane hits. All you get is what you have.

__________________
Kirk / Spock 2020

It all depends on what you do with your weapons.

The average deer hunter will probably have a 20 round box last him for several seasons. The guy that goes out to the range every month or so might make a single case last a year.

As an instructor, I know that I can burn through over 100 rounds a day just demonstrating drills and techniques. When it comes to me attending a course as a student I might be going through close to 2000 rounds in a weekend.

I generally have three "stacks" of ammo. One group is ammo that I put away for courses I have scheduled that year. This ammo is sorted into individual ammo cans and labeled with each course name. This can range from a few hundred rounds of handgun ammo for a one day class through two cases of 5.56 for a full on weekend working carbines.

The second stash is plinking or practice ammo. This is what I grab from when I want to go out and shoot on my own, shoot a USPSA/IDPA match or take some friends out to mess around on the farm.

The third stash is my "rainy day" ammo. I don't have day dreams of roaming the woods in some zombie/Red Dawn/fall of the government/whatever scenario. This is just a small stash of ammo that I keep for those "just in case" situations, such as the one we find ourselves in now.

None of this includes my duty/defense ammo. I keep a decent supply of that to ensure that I can test any new weapons to make sure they work with this ammo and of course keep all of my operational magazines loaded up.

Only as much as you can carry when you have to bug out.

Did that years ago. I beat the rush and bugged way out in the boondocks. Have a garden,we can own food including meat. Fresh wild game and fish are out my front or back door. Fresh water and stored fresh water. Wood burner back-up and 7 cords of wood in dry storage and replaced every year as used. Battery back up and solor re-chargable. Have a HAMM radio for keeping informed from around the planet. Just an everyday way of life. Growing up out in the country you learn to survive everyday life and what ever it throws at you. In the winter when I was younger,it would be nothing to NOT see a snowplow for a week or two. More than likely,we'd plow it enough just to get through ourselvels and the neighbors. No running to the store twenty times a day back then. Our neighbors,family and friends are our own protection. Everyone has "multipul specialties" from all over the spectrum to survive and stand off any sheep stampede that wouldn't even get this far out in the boondocks to begin with.

SHTF,city folk are going to be in for a GIGANTIC surprise of a life time. Just where you bugging out to and what are you going to do once you get there to survive ??? Chances are the elements will get you first.

__________________
THIS WE'LL DEFEND ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ