How much ammo for an AR?

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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
 
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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! :D
 
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.
 
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.
 
Bud Jr. said:
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.
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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.
 
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.:mad:

AMF:p

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
 
ethomps said:
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
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Like Homeland Security, I think you need "up to 1.6 billion rounds," or whatever that solicitation for bids said. :)
 
Bud Jr. said:
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.
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How much is "some twenty hundred" ? :D
 
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