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XDM45 wrote:3,500 .45ACP
25,000 .22LR

No, just far more prepared than many.

Right now, my best number for any caliber is 2000 rounds of reserve. I will not use it outside of real need, as in it is being shot at either food or a threat.

My practice ammunition that I use is down to 200ish for my main calibers, and even less for my secondary/"for fun" calibers.

JustPlainT wrote:

XDM45 wrote:3,500 .45ACP
25,000 .22LR

No, just far more prepared than many.

Right now, my best number for any caliber is 2000 rounds of reserve. I will not use it outside of real need, as in it is being shot at either food or a threat.

My practice ammunition that I use is down to 200ish for my main calibers, and even less for my secondary/"for fun" calibers.

Damn... I feel like I'm low and can never have enough. I was stocking it up before all this stuff happened and I really try to do a 2:1 minimum, sometimes a 3:1, and hopefully a 4:1 ratio by purchasing 2/3/4 boxes and only shooting 1. I just want to have the ammo supply of DHS, I admit it.

I'm glad you have some in reserve. I'm not a reloader, but I hear that even those parts are hard to come by lately.

I have about 500 9mm, 800 556, 200 .22, and 200 45. I would actually like more 556 and 45.

I'm sitting at 3-4000 rds of 5.56, 6000 5.45, around 4000 9mm, and under 1000 for .45 acp, .45 colt, .38 super and 300blk. Under 100 for .444 and .25-06. I'm running low in my opinion.

When I buy for my stash it's need, when you buy for your's it's hoarding.

I have a nice little stash. Unless you have so much that you cant walk around your house without climbing over ammo cans, it's not hoarding.

Man I sure hope that’s not hording, I shoot two or three hundred per week (still suck). heck I have a lot more ammo then that for my M1 Garand. Just like the looks of it I guess and at the time it was very cheap. Now when you get to the 223’s and 7.62’s I may be a hoarder but again purchased before the big push to keep the shelves empty. Of course when I start thinking about the 45 ACP’s or the long colts I guess I could be Humm…. I don’t know..
Come to think of it my bride says that there’s not much room left in the ammo safe and maybe I should stop having so much fun on weekends and buy her something nice instead of power and lead.
So I did? She now owns molds to swag her own bullets, and she didn’t think I was thoughtful.

jshuberg wrote:I have a nice little stash. Unless you have so much that you cant walk around your house without climbing over ammo cans, it's not hoarding.

You realize you are describing gun porn to me, right?Yes, to me a gun is a tool, but I admit I have a severe ammo fetish. More more more I'm an ammo hoarding wh-- hahaha!

Amateurs

45Badger wrote:Amateurs

pshaw... what do you have? 100,000 of .45ACP reloads?

If so....... can I just peek at it?

*my precious*

Don't worry. I won't drool too much.

Funny people hoard ammo but what are you going to do when you have to go on the move?

I stock up just enough so I can carry 2 firearms with ammo, food, and water.

damian_mb wrote:Funny people hoard ammo but what are you going to do when you have to go on the move?

I stock up just enough so I can carry 2 firearms with ammo, food, and water.

Let's dispel that notion. Moving is dangerous. If I have to "go on the move", it will be to a safe place, with supplies already there. Living off the post apocalyptic wasteland is for Walter Mitty and young people.

Ammunition is a commodity, easily convertible to cash or other things. If you have the cash, it has been a rock solid investment/safe place to stash cash for the last 20 years, especially the last 10 years. In theory, you can have too much. But you can never have enough

45Badger wrote:

damian_mb wrote:Funny people hoard ammo but what are you going to do when you have to go on the move?

I stock up just enough so I can carry 2 firearms with ammo, food, and water.

Let's dispel that notion. Moving is dangerous. If I have to "go on the move", it will be to a safe place, with supplies already there. Living off the post apocalyptic wasteland is for Walter Mitty and young people.

Ammunition is a commodity, easily convertible to cash or other things. If you have the cash, it has been a rock solid investment/safe place to stash cash for the last 20 years, especially the last 10 years. In theory, you can have too much. But you can never have enough

100% agreed.

In a post apocalyptic world...heck, even in one where society stumbles and doesn't fall (i.e. Katrina), things of value will be the basics like clean water, food, shelter, air, clothing, tools, etc. Other items of value will be sex, drugs, medications, first aid supplies, guns, ammo, bows and arrows, gold, silver, hardware supplies, gasoline/combustibles, many, many things will be barter/trade goods.

I have enough powder and primers for quite awhile. Brass, some new in reserve but I count on recycling most of what I shoot. Bullets, thousands in some calibers but not all JHP and not all calibers. Components are easier to store than loaded rounds. I have several hundred in several calibers.

Other than .22lr I am in pretty good shape. But is it hoarding if the future supply is uncertain? The guns aren't much use with no ammo.

heavygunner wrote:I was looking at my ammo the the other day and though if i was a boarder line hoarder??? I have maybe 500 rds for my 9mms.40s,45,357 pistols and maybe a 1000rds for 5.556 and 600 rds for my sig 308. I think i am far from hoarding from what i see on youtube some people have thousand and thousands or rounds. I have really slowed down on shooting because i cant find ammo anywhere. I am happy with my inventory but could a lot of that up on a good weekend. Maybe its time to be a hoarder but now's not the time.

Hoarding?
That's not even a sufficient level of reserves!
WTF man! You'd better sell a kidney or something, cause you're in dire straits!
Can someone on here spare some ammo and help this fella out?

Heck, I've got significantly more than that but still have the sick feeling that accompanies not have enough ammo and the inability to resupply... I need more ammo!

If you've got more ammo than enough ammo to wear out your gun and all the spare parts you have on hand; then you might be a hoarder.
If you've got tens of thousands of rounds for stuff you don't even have; then you might be a hoarder or an entrepreneur.

damian_mb wrote:Funny people hoard ammo but what are you going to do when you have to go on the move?

I stock up just enough so I can carry 2 firearms with ammo, food, and water.

Did no one ever teach you the concept of caching?