Question if i may ? Do you know what you have and where you have them stashed.

[mike4sigs]

Not asking What you have or where you store them.
I met with 2 friends for Breakfast before going to a gun show. and we started talking safes and storage and we started discussing safes and what we had where and the one guy says ( and always says) he dont know where this or that is. i thought it was BS .However i am starting to beleive him me and the othier guy both said we knew where and what we had controled by spread sheets even ammo.
of course since my boating accident it is not hard with only 2 cheap single shot shotguns

 

[oneoff]

Hardware yes, ammo not so much.
Falls into:
Enough,
Not Enough,
Really need to do something about that.

I "do" know where it all is though.

 

[venomballistics]

Hardware yes, ammo not so much.
Falls into:
Enough,
Not Enough,
Really need to do something about that.

I "do" know where it all is though.

Ammo policy conforms to what I call the Swiss Reserve.
Part inspired by how the Swiss ran shop with the civilian militia ... and part a friends wiseassed remark about how 200 rounds of ammo was the same as being out of ammo.

so, for any arm, there is 200 rounds that will never be fired in peacetime.
Added to this, is that quantity that represents the largest blastathon session you have had with that arm, multiplied by two.
This will be the minimum stock on hand for any given arm.
The idea is to have ammo sufficient to enjoy ones arms without undue urgency to restock. Should life go sideways, the absolute worst case will be 200 rounds per weapon going in.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

10 years ago, I was moving and as I packed gun I made a paper list. As I got close to the end, I thought about 25 guns were missing. In the reloading room there were 3 tall windows with floor length curtains. (from when it was my daughter's bedroom) When we pulled the curtains off the rods, there were exactly 25 guns stacked behind them. I have a pretty good idea of what I own. The problem is I have sold 43 guns in the last 12 years and forget which one is which on the similar military. (Maek II verses Mark II *, and similar things like that.)

When moving, I found a 15-pound keg of WW231 I had completely forgotten I owned. I had just stocked up with two 4-pound jugs of same. I'm really stocked up now, as in for the rest of my life and into my kids lives!

I do keep discovering ammo I bought 40+ years ago for guns I sold 35 years ago. In the words of Bob Ross, "It's a happy little accident!" I'm trying to find someone to 1500 rounds of 8x52 Lebel on Hotchkiss MG strips.

Ivan

 

[sophie]

Answer, yes, I know what I have and where I have it in regards to firearms. I haven’t got that forgetful yet.

As far as ammo is concerned, I do have listings of multiple calibers but the count would vary considerably.

Now let me see, what was I doing?

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Ammo policy conforms to what I call the Swiss Reserve.
Part inspired by how the Swiss ran shop with the civilian militia ... and part a friends wiseassed remark about how 200 rounds of ammo was the same as being out of ammo..

Many of my guns are of standard cartridges, so one stockpile serves the group. A few are of such oddball calibers NO Ammo is know to exist. Some I load as needed and keep components for about 500 reloads on hand.

A "Blastathon" is a waste of ammo on things like sniper rifles!

Ivan

 

[cmj8591]

10 years ago, I was moving and as I packed gun I made a paper list. As I got close to the end, I thought about 25 guns were missing. In the reloading room there were 3 tall windows with floor length curtains. (from when it was my daughter's bedroom) When we pulled the curtains off the rods, there were exactly 25 guns stacked behind them. I have a pretty good idea of what I own. The problem is I have sold 43 guns in the last 12 years and forget which one is which on the similar military. (Maek II verses Mark II *, and similar things like that.)

When moving, I found a 15-pound keg of WW231 I had completely forgotten I owned. I had just stocked up with two 4-pound jugs of same. I'm really stocked up now, as in for the rest of my life and into my kids lives!

I do keep discovering ammo I bought 40+ years ago for guns I sold 35 years ago. In the words of Bob Ross, "It's a happy little accident!" I'm trying to find someone to 1500 rounds of 8x52 Lebel on Hotchkiss MG strips.

Ivan

I don't know why I felt the need to do the math but if you have a 45acp load with 5 grains of 231, my go to target load with a 200g swc, you can load 32,200 rounds. That should last a couple of months for you.

 

[MRB1]

I know what I have, which really isn't a lot. My ammo supply is sufficient for each firearm. BUT I know better than to keep all my eggs in one basket, so getting what is needed together might take some time. I'm not an army so any resistance on my part would be short-lived, but I'd hope to leave my mark when the smoke clears.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I don't know why I felt the need to do the math but if you have a 45acp load with 5 grains of 231, my go to target load with a 200g swc, you can load 32,200 rounds. That should last a couple of months for you.

5.5 grains for 45 ACP
6.7 grains for 45 Colt
I forget the loads I use for 38 Special, 38 S&W, 32 ACP & S&W Long, 9mm Lugar, 9mm Largo, 380 ACP 44 Special & 44 Russian.

WW231 and Unique are my go-to handgun powders with WW296 a distant 3rd.

Ivan

 

[soFlaNative]

More than I need, not as many as I want.

 

[lkabug]

"Should life go sideways, the absolute worst case will be 200 rounds per weapon going in."

Is that per weapon or per caliber?

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

I did know until the unfortunate boating accident.

 

[llowry61]

I know what I have what I don't know is how much is enough.

 

[Erich]

It's always neat when you're rooting around looking for a particular one and you run across one that's sorta slipped your mind for a while. I'm organized (mainly out of concern for my wife being left in a lurch should I fall off a cliff or (more likely around this town) get hit by a drunk driver or stray bullet), but that doesn't mean every item in inventory is always fresh in my mind.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[Golddollar]

I remember that one day I heard a shelf break in one of my ammunition cabinets. It turned out I had 9600 rounds of .22 long rifle shells on that shelf. I bought a steel cabinet afterward.

 

[A10]

I know where the hardware is. I know where the software is too, and I don't have enough. Never will.....

 

[Inusuit]

I have occasionally misplaced a handgun. My wife, on the other hand, has no idea where her KelTec P32 is. She has kept track of her Glock 26, KelTec PMR30, Kahr P9.

 

[ladder13]

Sort of ………….

 

[Retired W4]

Short answer...no. I used to keep a pretty tight inventory, but I'm a little remiss in that category these days. I could give you an estimate of the total number, say, plus or minus 25??

The other day I search frantically (almost) in the basement for my Norinco 84S-1. Had the box and all the accessories but no gun. It was safely tucked away in the upstairs safe.