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I don’t understand the obsession with ammo. How many armed encounters can a person expect to survive in a worst case scenario? It’s a little bit silly. I’ve thought long and hard about it. Any more than 50k rounds is overkill. At that point you have to consider storage volume, security, maintenance etc.
 

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I don’t understand the obsession with ammo. How many armed encounters can a person expect to survive in a worst case scenario? It’s a little bit silly. I’ve thought long and hard about it. Any more than 50k rounds is overkill. At that point you have to consider storage volume, security, maintenance etc.

Trade value needs to also be considered.
 

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That 9mm in your handgun is just supposed to allow you to fight your way to your rifle.

Am I the only person who lives near an Atwoods? I've been to two different stores this week and both of them have 9mm. Limit of 2 boxes, but if you are over 100 rounds away from your main battle rifle, your survival plan probably has a lot of other flaws too.
 

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I like to have 1k rounds of factory ammo for each caliber that I primarily shoot that is my reserve that I never get below. I'm light on 38spc and .357, but don't shoot those much at all. Now 22lr, you can't have too much, when you have grandkids that like to shoot. I got caught pretty thin during the obummer years and never want to be in the position to tell my grandkids that I can't take them shooting.
 

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I like to have 1k rounds of factory ammo for each caliber that I primarily shoot that is my reserve that I never get below. I'm light on 38spc and .357, but don't shoot those much at all. Now 22lr, you can't have too much, when you have grandkids that like to shoot. I got caught pretty thin during the obummer years and never want to be in the position to tell my grandkids that I can't take them shooting.

Yep. I was shooting some 5.56 with my son the other day, and thought "man, we're burning money here!"

About a millisecond later I remembered how much more valuable time with him is. Burn, baby, burn!
 

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I like to have 1k rounds of factory ammo for each caliber that I primarily shoot that is my reserve that I never get below. I'm light on 38spc and .357, but don't shoot those much at all. Now 22lr, you can't have too much, when you have grandkids that like to shoot. I got caught pretty thin during the obummer years and never want to be in the position to tell my grandkids that I can't take them shooting.
I will practice a little more with the .22 these days to extend the range day.
 

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I look at pictures on the web and fantasize of the good ole days and the land of plenty :cry11:

your mine my precious :musketeers:

Okay I feel better now :comfort:
 

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This has happened several times in the last 20 years. I got caught with my pants down on the first ammo scare. Never again.
I was caught short during the Clinton thing. In 1994 I was scratching for primers.

I have been preaching for decades to buy primers and/or ammo in bulk. Last year I was talking to a friend, urging him to get a couple cases of 9mm from SGAmmo.
He said 'but it's $200/case delivered! That's too much!'. He doesn't think that now.

I learned. I have not been caught short since.
 

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