Don't forget a buttload of these to go with all that ammo.
Posted on 03/08/2010 7:58:06 AM PST by dagogo redux
With all the talk about the Second Amendment, the ammo shortage, and about what might lie ahead after November (or before), I thought it might be a reasonable vanity post to ask what sorts of quantities of ammo are practical for a person or household to stock for an “emergency”.
A few months ago, for instance, someone here said 6000 rounds for each firearm. More recently, someone said (I think) 3000 rounds for one’s primary battle rifle, and 500 rounds for each handgun and shot gun.
Answers may depend on many factors: for instance, the scenario you think most likely, or most worthwhile to prepare for, as well as the role you might see yourself playing in such a scenario (home defense, active maneuvers, underground resistance, etc), so posting these thoughts may help explain your reasoning.
"The more the merrier,” will occur to many, but practical answers would be more helpful. And HOW did you arrived at your answer - is it calculated in some way, something you were taught, a hunch, collected wisdom, etc? If you say 5000 rounds, why not 2500 or 10,000, etc. and what do you base that on?
Thanks for tolerating another vanity, and thanks for educating us with your answers.
lol You will be one of the neighbors coming to me for ammo!
Approach the sandbags slowly with your hands in plain sight and clearly say “Eagles Up!”
There is no clear best, or even likely, scenario.
“Boston’s Gun Bible” answers a lot of these questions. It has a priority list of what you may need.
Outstanding! That’s what it’s all about.
As kind of a preparatory guide to making it through a country’s collapse, you can’t beat FerFal’s compiled writings. Fascinating and informative, if you haven’t read it. If you have, maybe someone else will get some benefit.
http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2079&Itemid=2
I’ve read it four or five times, and I follow his blog here:
Minimum: 1000 rounds per piece.
That’s a good convenient number, ensuring you’ll have enough for whatever earnest application you run into. Any time you go under that amount, it’s easy to just buy another case.
Reasonable: enough to burn out every barrel.
Each barrel has a finite lifespan. Considering prices will only go up, buy enough consumables now to satisfy that lifespan.
Don't give up. That's for liberal collectivist monkeys whose tiny and inconsequential skillsets wouldn't keep them warm or feed them if their lives depended upon them. So they'll die and die badly. That's not you. It doesn't have to be you. Follow the link and read the book.
“Honestly, it’s a load off of my mind to not have to worry about someone coming in and stealing all those guns and all that ammunition I used to have here.”
The preacher who married us lived right outside OKC, and was executed by an escaped con who also murdered his wife, shot his young son and raped his daughter.
No, I think I sleep better at night knowing I have at least the opportunity to do something about it if someone tries to hurt me and family.
I wouldn’t say it’s my ~plan~. Nor would I say “after firing several hundred rounds” is early.
I think it’s a realistic view.
Hey, you can buy all you want. It’s none of my business.
Somebody just asked for opinions, and I gave mine.
I have no intention of “giving up”.
My sincere hope would be to ice as many zombies as possible.
Bu my realistic analysis is that I won’t survive forever in such circumstances.
So when people talk about 10k rounds of every caliber, etc, I think all theyre doing is providing a stockpile for the guy who kills them.
From my point of view, I don’t expect to be firing alone.
Nor do I intend to buy more than I can use and share anyways.
Cheers and Go Bucks!
Don't forget a buttload of these to go with all that ammo.
Just for info’s sake - what’s your time running the 100?
just askin
With a zombie behind me its propably pretty fast. Good news is zombies seem a little slow both mentally and physically. The bad news is when they come, they come in large numbers. One advantage I think we may have is our sense of smell, methinks the living dead would smell something awful.
“They” would be anyone he’d be talking to who wants to cause trouble for him.
Stockpiling is what you do as a good boy scout to be prepared for something that COULD happen. It is taking personal responsibility to not be a burden on your neighbors or community. It is self-sufficiency. Not greed.
Hoarding is what people do AFTER something happens where possible limits on how much you can buy are in place so that the unprepared people can have some time to buy items. Hoarding cuts into the greed some people might have to clean out a store AFTER the SHTF and not care about anyone else when they had plenty of time beforehand to prepare.
That’s why if there ever IS a SHTF moment, your prior preparations aren’t ‘hoarding’ and should not be explained as such, otherwise word will get around and authorities will be notified you are ‘hoarding’ when you weren’t and guess how fast that stuff will be taken from you unless you have your receipts.
“If one is not prepared to use 6 then 6000 is pointless.”
Of all of the considered advise and/or opinions provided within this thread... those words ring the truest. ;>)
So, you’re saying that I really DID need to use a sarcasm tag? :)
Great replies, y’all. Thanks!
Excellent points -one basic consideration to think about would be to plan for a couple different scenarios – Staying in place, bugging out in a vehicle or bugging out on foot – depending on what’s happening.
Having plan for each one of those scenarios would probably be one of the best ways to get ready.
The point about the food is also very important – no one knows When something might happen, or What might happen.
Buying non-perishables that would normally eat and rotating them through you supplies is a good way of making sure you are ready at all times and that they have the longest shelf life.
Yep, if you’re from Oklahoma
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