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How many rounds of ammo do you have total?

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How much ammo do you have?

51K views 162 replies 130 participants last post by  stingerstingray 
#1 ·
I was just wondering who has the most ammo.

I have:
950 rounds of .40S&W
950 rounds of 9mm
200 rounds of .38 Special
200 rounds of .357 Magnum
50 rounds .357 Sig
250 rounds of .380acp
800 rounds of .22lr
50 rounds of .45lc
50 rounds of .410

3500 rounds total.

That includes FMJ and JHP.






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3rd Gen Glock 22 .40 S&W RTF2 w/ Night Sights & 4 Magazines
 
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#6 ·
I don't want to count it all.

You can never have enough.
yeah, I haven't counted for a while now.

Just guessing, at least 1000 in each handgun caliber. Probably just under 1000 in each rifle caliber. With 12 different calibers, I bet close to 10000 total. Not counting shotgun (<100 rounds).

 
#8 ·
Don't know right off the top exactly how much of what. But I don't have nearly enough.
200 rounds per trip to the range. Ammo supplies drop fast.

5-10-11
Down to a few Shot shells, probably a little over 2000 22lr and just what I have in my 9mm.
9mm is available around here but the prices still are unreasonably high. Some higher than 16.00 almost 17 a box for 50 rounds.
Once in a blue moon you will find WalMart with the 10 dollar boxes but even they are getting stupid with the price of WWB 15.00 a box of 50.
 
#13 ·
About 1000 .22 LR
100- .308
500- 12 ga. Steel Shot
200- 12 ga. Lead Shot
50- Misc. 12 Ga. Slugs and Buckshot
300- .38 Special
200- .357 Target loads
100- .357 Personal Protection loads
500- .40 cal. Target loads
20- .40 cal. Critical Defense
50- .357 SIG
... and approximately 300 rounds of Black powder loads for my 3 Smoke Poles.

Wow,,, thats more than I thought I had, but less than I'd like to have...

... oh yea,,,, and 6 newly purchased .40 cal. snap caps.....
 
#16 ·
SHHHHHH!

It's top secret! :smt018









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Taurus 617SS2 7rd .357 Snub Nose Revolver
Taurus Judge 5rd .45/.410 Matte Stainless Revolver
Taurus PT 738 .380acp w/ 2 Magazines
2nd Gen Glock 17 9mm w/ 2 Magazines
3rd Gen Glock 22 .40 S&W RTF2 w/ Night Sights & 4 Magazines
 
#17 ·
In the first place, why tell the world, in a public forum, what you have; guns or ammo? Do you not think that anti-gunners are monitoring such forums as these, and taking names? Mentioning a new gun that you bought is one thing. But listing one's entire forearms collection, and now the obsessive amount of ammunition one has stashed away, are not, in my opinion, wise actions.

And how much stockpiling is based on paranoia, obsession and massive insecurity? Are we all waiting for the great shootout with terrorist invaders? Or the complete breakdown of society, as in some science fiction novel? Don't worry; I feel the urge too. But that urge, uncontrolled, is why we cannot purchase ammunition normally in the stores any more.

That urge, unfulfilled, is also why so many myriads of people have gotten into handloading; people who do not really want to enjoy it is an experimental, and satisfying hobby; thus people who are not good or even safe at it; but who merely want to have access to more, stockpiled ammunition. That is why we have such difficulty getting powders and primers, not to mention brass.

We should be asking, "How much is enough?"
 
#18 ·
In the first place, why tell the world, in a public forum, what you have; guns or ammo? Do you not think that anti-gunners are monitoring such forums as these, and taking names? Mentioning a new gun that you bought is one thing. But listing one's entire forearms collection, and now the obsessive amount of ammunition one has stashed away, are not, in my opinion, wise actions.

And how much stockpiling is based on paranoia, obsession and massive insecurity? Are we all waiting for the great shootout with terrorist invaders? Or the complete breakdown of society, as in some science fiction novel? Don't worry; I feel the urge too. But that urge, uncontrolled, is why we cannot purchase ammunition normally in the stores any more.

That urge, unfulfilled, is also why so many myriads of people have gotten into handloading; people who do not really want to enjoy it is an experimental, and satisfying hobby; thus people who are not good or even safe at it; but who merely want to have access to more, stockpiled ammunition. That is why we have such difficulty getting powders and primers, not to mention brass.

We should be asking, "How much is enough?"
First of all, they do not know who I am here. They just know that I am 1 more gun nut out of a 100,000 or more other gun nuts that live in Dallas. They see how much I buy or spend anyway everytime they run a background check on me and when I use my credit/debit card for gun or ammo purchases. No big deal. No way around it unless you just deal with cash and buy guns from individuals.

Second of all, I don't buy a bunch of ammo and just sit on it. I use it at the range often. If I see it cheap, I will buy a lot of it. But I also shoot a lot of it. I do agree with you that most people think they are waiting for that great shootout and think they need to stock up as much as they can before they go to a war that will never happen. I have never believed in that. I just like to go to the range and shoot. The main reason why ammo is so hard to find most of the time is just supply and demand. There are a lot more people with guns now then there use to be and the ammo companies just can't keep up. Look at how many more CCL's are out there now compaired to last year. People need ammo for practice.

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Taurus 617SS2 7rd .357 Snub Nose Revolver
Taurus Judge 5rd .45/.410 Matte Stainless Revolver
Taurus PT 738 .380acp w/ 2 Magazines
2nd Gen Glock 17 9mm w/ 2 Magazines
3rd Gen Glock 22 .40 S&W RTF2 w/ Night Sights & 4 Magazines
 
#19 ·
Camaro 73, Good reply to Teuthis.:smt023

I've been watching this thread just waiting for his type of response. I knew it was just a matter of time.

My ammo purchases aren't made out of "Obsession", "Paranoia", or "Massive Insecurity". I'm an avid Waterfowler, Deer Hunter, Small game of all kinds, and target shooting.
I grew up with guns and will always have guns, so I may as well be as proficient with all of them as possible. That means practicing, that means buying ammo, and I will continue to do so until I legally can't or just plain get too old to do it anymore.:numbchuck:
 
#20 ·
I agree with Camaro73 also. I could care less who knows how much ammo I have or what kind of guns I own. I dont hoard ammo or guns but shoot regularly and my ammo stash (what little it is) regularly goes to near zero and then I go purchase more when I find it cheep and available. Also, just because people post on forums doesnt mean that they are totally telling the truth. I'm sure some guys post they have more ammo and guns than they actually do to make them look cool and I'm sure some post less than what they have because of fear of the government coming to there house and seizing up there ammo or guns and putting them on some sort of watch list. Personally I dont think that way. If you want to know how much ammo I keep, I dont mind telling you. Sounds like a honest question to me!
 
#22 ·
A common error of human perception is to focus inwards, on one's own thoughts and actions, and then to deny, instead of looking at an overview. The overview shouts loudly that people are hoarding ammunition. Remember that there was also a run on handguns for almost a year before everyone got what they wanted. Prior to Obama's election, black rifles were proliferate. Suddenly not one was to be found.

If a vast number of people were not hoarding, and caching ammunition, we would not be having the shortages that are not nationwide in most calibers of handgun; as well as many rifle calibers and shotguns. Whether an individual on this forum is or is not hoarding, a significant percentage of shooting people are. I have spoken with individuals who have over well 100,000 rounds of various ammunition "stashed" away, over and above what they use for shooting. Perhaps those people who are actually stockpiling ammunition, even on this forum, are clever enough not to tell anyone online?

It is true that there has been a massive surge in people wanting to possess and bear arms. Nothing could be better than that for us all. But those people alone would not deplete the stores of ammunition if normal amounts were being purchased. There was a time, pre-Obama, when this was occuring and the shelves still held excesses in all calibers; as well as handloading supplies in adundance. I watched the change take place and the shelves become empty from Obama Fear.

The sudden proliferation of handloaders is not simply a huge number of people having the same idea at the same time, and desiring to become handloading hobbyists. Those numbers did not exist before Obama was elected. They have masively spiked only since that time. A reasonable assessment is that, from many admissions in shooting forums, that they are seeking a sure source of ammuntion. That can be a good thing in the long term, if people continue to hand load.

But now, so many do not even bother to purchase manuals, or refer to them online. They naively ask others in forums for load recipes. They have none of the spirit of experimentation, using the manuals. In the past, the vast majority of handloaders may have been hobbyists, such as ourselves; and perhaps needed, as some of us did, to load for financial purposes because they shot so many rounds. But that has changed in the past year. A vast number of newcomers are not of that mindset. In the past, how many of us who enjoyed handloading for multiple reasons, had at least half a dozen manuals and books of our own, written recipes? My original point was simply that a large number of new handloaders got into the hobby from a desire to "hoard" ammunition; to assure a supply in the presumed coming of the end of the world as we know it.

It is needless to debate a precise definition of the word "stashed". It could mean what one has in one's back pocket or buried in the back yard. But a huge number of people in this country now have a huge amount of ammuntion "stashed" away somewhere. That is obsessive. Obsession is one of our primary human traits anyway. Males have a common obsession about collecting; firearms, stamps, autos, etc. Not much stimuluis is required to make us obsessive.

As for me, I do not intend to tell the world how many weapons I have; nor do I intend to tell how much ammunition I possess in a public forum. Am I hoarding and clever? Or am I not hoarding and resentful? Who knows? :)
 
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Sorry everyone, I didn't mean to open a $hit $torm.
It's all good. Everyone is entitled to there own opinion and freedom of speech. No harm done. We all may not agree with what Teuthis has said but he has made some good points. One of the many reasons why we are on these message boards is so we can express our feelings and give our own opinions on these matters.:smt1099
 
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