For me, I keep a 2 year supply. I own a 44 mag, and shoot it 50 rounds a year, so I only keep 100 rounds or so. I own multiple AR 15's, and shoot 10k rounds a year, so I keep 20k.
I figure with a 2 year supply I wont run out before pandemic's, election, etc craziness goes away. That said, this current crisis is making me wish I had gone to a 4 year supply this time last year.
20k? That’s awesome. I have a decent amount of 5.56. About half of them are green tip. 5.56 was cheaper than 2.23. Do you suggest a mix of those two? I thought 2.23 might be better for range if only it was cheaper!
I am a first-time firearm owner (not even 2 weeks' yet!) and have quickly found myself asking 2 questions:
The second question is certainly tongue-in-cheek. However, the first is anything but. I have only been able to fire 100 rounds through my new firearm, exclusively because of the ever-increasing cost and rarity of ammo. And as I get a box here and there, the common advice is to stockpile. So, stockpile I have, even though I very much want to go to the range.
- How much ammo should I stockpile in this current supply-and-demand/pandemic environment?
- Why did I chose now, of all times, to get into this?!
So, my fellow INGO visitors, what is a "good", "safe," or "[insert adjective of equal definition here]" amount of munitions to stockpile, in your opinion?
You cannot have too much ammo
Having spent a lot of time recently reorganizing and moving ammo cans, I may disagree with this. Ammo is heavy dang it.You cannot have too much ammo
The guilt of needing and not having, and not being prepared for threats to family and friends is heavier.Having spent a lot of time recently reorganizing and moving ammo cans, I may disagree with this. Ammo is heavy dang it.
Dry-fire training is really good advice; I'd not thought of that. I have been taking some time every couple of days to become more acclimated with my new firearm (completely unloaded, of course): working the safety, magazine release, unloading/reloading the magazine, taking apart the gun, and so on. I have not, however, been dry firing it.Glad you are on board with the firearm community!! Stay with it. Hopefully ammo prices normalize sometime this year. Improvise as necessary by perhaps dry-fire training and/or using .22lr as a training platform. Also, learn all you can about self-defense and shooting in general. Lots of books and classes on these subjects.
Ha! @ "showing off."I’ve read that a normal range day before all this would have been 1k rounds if you were making the most out of it. Now 100 rounds and it might seem like you are showing off. Lmao.
New firearm owner, Government plant, giraffe... I am whatever you choose to see me as. :PIf the OP is a government plant then let’s do the math and justify our position.
My girlfriend and I have limited our range time to 50 rounds each the 2 times we've gone; we both purchased a firearm at the same time. I can't even imagine what it would be like to spend 100, let alone 1,000, rounds a day at the range!For others I might suggest keeping enough for one or two range sessions always on hand. 300 rounds of handgun ammo is a good estimate of needs to go to the range or take a safety class. They might also want to have a couple boxes of hollow points on hand for self defense.
That's not a bad formula to follow. Is it based on the premise that one would go to the range and spend 96 rounds per visit?How often do you train a month? Id multiply that by 96. Thats how much i would stockpile. At a minimum.
Whoa, that was actually a thing that happened?! Was it recently?I just think of that guy between Bedford & Mitchell who's barn fell over into the creek because he 'Stockpiled' ammo for decades and the weight collapsed the old barn over into the creek.
The cleanup crew stopped counting about 1 million rounds and ammo was recovered out of the creek over 3 miles away.
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The cleanup cost the taxpayers over half a million, rounds and powder canisters had rotted through.
I'd have to argue he had 'Too Much', for the old rotted barn anyway.