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

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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
 
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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.
 
oneoff said:
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.
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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.
 
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
 
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? 😎
 
venomballistics said:
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..
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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
 
Ivan the Butcher said:
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
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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.
 
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.
 
cmj8591 said:
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.
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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
 
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. :)
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.:confused:
 
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I have one safe, everything fits. I have a primary carry gun, I know where it is at all times. I have 2 ammo dumps, know where they are and have an "approximate inventory." Big fan of keeping "it" simple. Joe
 
Inventory tracking

I keep an xcel spreadsheet that contains entries for all the firearms in the inventory and it includes a brief description of the firearm and the serial number. Accessories such as optics are also recorded including their serial numbers, if they have them. Also included for each entry is my best, annually updated, estimate of the retail value of each item. I think this references the old joke about my wife selling my guns for what I told her I paid for them after I'm gone.

I also keep a much more detailed inventory word doc that lists each and every firearm. This list is by firearm type and includes a description of the firearm, sometimes a little history, personal comments, and all the pertinent specs on each firearm.

What neither of these includes is a location indicator. I have, on rare occasion, temporarily misplaced a firearm among the various secure storage locations.

It's the kind of thing I could never have imagined 25 or 30 years ago. And this phenomenon is hardly unique to firearms in my domain.

Bryan
 
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As I don't have as many firearms as I once did, I know were all my firearms are; most are stored in a very secure locker. I keep a ready(loaded) firearm on each level of the house. I damn:) well know where those are.
 
Lost a Buckmark once.........We were going off so I open the linen closet and shoved it into the pile of folded towels and forgot about it. The next time I wanted it it wasn't in the safe or anywhere to be found. Couldn't remember where I put it. Couple of weeks later wife ask why was there a pistol in the linen closet?......WHEW!......Got it back.

Once when loading the little bambino's and their stuff in the car......I laid my pistol up on the roof........Forgot about it......Drove off......Heard a THUMP on the trunk.......MY PISTOL!!!!.......Thankfully it happened in the yard and not at 60mph.

Sorta sure I know what I have..........Sometimes when sitting in a waiting room waiting om a doctor or such.........I make mental list...Gets interesting when I run out of fingers and toes.
 
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