Matlack
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How much is enough - Ammo
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mauser58
My home is a sports store
Yes there is no such thing as too much. When your home sinks into the earth or you cant get the front door shut then dont complain. Keep looking and buying my friend.
If she gets half the ammo in the divorce settlement, is it really worth it??
Does she even know you're buying ammo, or how much, or where you keep it?
ground chuck
Rookie Jedi
Anyone have a good idea of how much 308 i can get for 300 rnds of 556 AE brass cased? Asking for a friend
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Depending on which 308, it's almost the same price on gunbroker. I'm getting about $1.25/rd for both.
Alan3413
Ultimate Member
- Mar 4, 2013
- 17,192
It's not hoarding if there's still room to store it.
Now excuse me while I finish excavating a new bunker.
Now excuse me while I finish excavating a new bunker.
ground chuck
Rookie Jedi
My buddy has 556 but very little 308 and is looking to trade. Any interest?
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Squaregrouper
Kragaphile
Currently, I would think 200rds of .308 for 300rds of 5.56 would be fair (I am not offering a trade)
ground chuck
Rookie Jedi
Thanks, i was able to comnect a couple people to my friend. Its now out of my hamds.
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jollymon
Active Member
I keep watching places that sell ammo on line and I'm applaud at what there charging. To quote Gunnery Sargent Hartman
" They don't have the common courtesy to give you a Reach around "
" They don't have the common courtesy to give you a Reach around "
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Depends. If you’re buying ammo to hoard and create a stockpile that you’ll never use, then too much is a few boxes per caliber. If you’re one who actually shoots to practice, train, and hunt a lot with your ammo(and even come off of some for friends to help them out), then you can never have enough.
Dunno. I am hoping I'll live long enough that I am offloading a lot of stuff to my kids a few years before I kick it and all they have to go through is a small safe with a couple of guns and a little bit of ammo. I sure as heck hope I am lucky enough in life I am concerned about overflowing my gun room with stuff long before that and just downsizing in my 70s in to my 80s.
Being in my late 30s though...
Anyway, emotionally, no. I do not have enough. Realistically I do. Its possible the ammo market will never recover, but that is going to require legislation to do that. Otherwise it will. It might be 6 or 12 months before the recovery starts in earnest, but it will eventually. It might take 3 or 4 years to recover fully and significant shocks could cause it to back slide hard.
That being said, I have enough I could sit back and not sweat it for 3 or 4 years and start acquiring stuff again once the market is completely recovered. I don't think I'll wait that long before I start trickle buying stuff to replace some of what I've shot. But the only ammo I've bought in >6 months was a couple of boxes of the new Winchester M855 because I was curious to try it out a few weeks ago, rather than needing it bad. Otherwise I think the last time I bought ammo was maybe back in May or June I picked up some oddball calibers that hadn't inflated in price yet (some Makarov, 32acp and I think I got a few boxes of Tula 30 carbine). No plans to get anything else. I've been on the hunt for CCI Suppressor 22lr because it shoots really well in my 10/22 and guess what, I've got a suppressor sooooo...sadly my suppressor cleared NFA jail back in May and I was to dumb to stock up a ton of subsonic stuff (I DID get some. Enough to last me a few years of hunting using the 42gr Winchster subsonic HP I have since I've got like 4 or 5 boxes of it, plus 600+ rounds of LRN subsonic). I think though even if I could find it I am not willing to pay $10-15 for a 50 round box of 22lr.
Once I run dry of my reloading supplies, that's when I'll be concerned. But even then I've got a few years of factory ammo I can shoot before I'd run dry as I am shooting almost all reloads right now (except some limited testing with factory ammo compared to a reload, or for hunting). Though I've got enough guns in enough calibers that the worst that happens is I stop shooting something because I only have a couple of hundred rounds of ammo for it.
The whole situation has convinced me that I need a bit more of a stockpile once the market has recovered for the next time it goes nuts again. Maybe not 2-3x as much. But certainly a bit better stock of primers for reloading (powder and bullets are good). Could use maybe 25-50% more of every caliber for that bit of extra cushion. If prices do get as silly cheap as they had been, I should pick up a few cases of steel 9mm for real cheap shooting. The market is going to recover a lot more though before I buy anything in any significant quantities. It'll be more oddball components or ammo that I'd buy before the price has mostly recovered. I am not buying 9mm at even 50cpr. Maybe once it has dropped under 30cpr I'd consider picking some up. But I don't have a ton of 9mm or 45 defensive ammo (a few boxes). Won't be buying any cases of defensive ammo anytime soon, but I know what my guns like and once available at a fair price (which to me is under .80cpr for defensive ammo) I'd probably pickup a couple boxes just so I could start shooting that again a little, which I won't do till availability is better. Also some components I really want that I have zero of. I'd like some 120gr .264" and 75gr .224" Gold Dot bullets and 123gr .264" SST and I have zero and zero are to be found. If they become available at stupid prices...NO. However, if I can find them at somewhat fair prices even if kind of high, yes, I'll absolutely pickup a few hundred of each.
Being in my late 30s though...
Anyway, emotionally, no. I do not have enough. Realistically I do. Its possible the ammo market will never recover, but that is going to require legislation to do that. Otherwise it will. It might be 6 or 12 months before the recovery starts in earnest, but it will eventually. It might take 3 or 4 years to recover fully and significant shocks could cause it to back slide hard.
That being said, I have enough I could sit back and not sweat it for 3 or 4 years and start acquiring stuff again once the market is completely recovered. I don't think I'll wait that long before I start trickle buying stuff to replace some of what I've shot. But the only ammo I've bought in >6 months was a couple of boxes of the new Winchester M855 because I was curious to try it out a few weeks ago, rather than needing it bad. Otherwise I think the last time I bought ammo was maybe back in May or June I picked up some oddball calibers that hadn't inflated in price yet (some Makarov, 32acp and I think I got a few boxes of Tula 30 carbine). No plans to get anything else. I've been on the hunt for CCI Suppressor 22lr because it shoots really well in my 10/22 and guess what, I've got a suppressor sooooo...sadly my suppressor cleared NFA jail back in May and I was to dumb to stock up a ton of subsonic stuff (I DID get some. Enough to last me a few years of hunting using the 42gr Winchster subsonic HP I have since I've got like 4 or 5 boxes of it, plus 600+ rounds of LRN subsonic). I think though even if I could find it I am not willing to pay $10-15 for a 50 round box of 22lr.
Once I run dry of my reloading supplies, that's when I'll be concerned. But even then I've got a few years of factory ammo I can shoot before I'd run dry as I am shooting almost all reloads right now (except some limited testing with factory ammo compared to a reload, or for hunting). Though I've got enough guns in enough calibers that the worst that happens is I stop shooting something because I only have a couple of hundred rounds of ammo for it.
The whole situation has convinced me that I need a bit more of a stockpile once the market has recovered for the next time it goes nuts again. Maybe not 2-3x as much. But certainly a bit better stock of primers for reloading (powder and bullets are good). Could use maybe 25-50% more of every caliber for that bit of extra cushion. If prices do get as silly cheap as they had been, I should pick up a few cases of steel 9mm for real cheap shooting. The market is going to recover a lot more though before I buy anything in any significant quantities. It'll be more oddball components or ammo that I'd buy before the price has mostly recovered. I am not buying 9mm at even 50cpr. Maybe once it has dropped under 30cpr I'd consider picking some up. But I don't have a ton of 9mm or 45 defensive ammo (a few boxes). Won't be buying any cases of defensive ammo anytime soon, but I know what my guns like and once available at a fair price (which to me is under .80cpr for defensive ammo) I'd probably pickup a couple boxes just so I could start shooting that again a little, which I won't do till availability is better. Also some components I really want that I have zero of. I'd like some 120gr .264" and 75gr .224" Gold Dot bullets and 123gr .264" SST and I have zero and zero are to be found. If they become available at stupid prices...NO. However, if I can find them at somewhat fair prices even if kind of high, yes, I'll absolutely pickup a few hundred of each.
Ammo Jon
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- Mar 3, 2008
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Andywhale
Member
I wish I could have bought at least 5k 9mm and 5k 5.56 when I first got into firearms early last year.
ground chuck
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jollymon
Active Member
Just curious how long was the order to delivery time
Ammo Jon
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- Mar 3, 2008
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9 weeks.
jollymon
Active Member
What cal's
Ammo Jon
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- Mar 3, 2008
- 21,076
9/223
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