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Survival Prepping - How Much Ammo is Enough?
AShooting Journal ^ | 10/20/2015 | asj

Posted on 10/20/2015 8:03:36 AM PDT by w1n1

Is 1,000 Rounds Enough or 10,000 Rounds?

It’s a very common question posed by survivalists, preppers, and others preparing for the potential likelihood of a SHTF event. Among all the lists of plans for your survival, things to gather, store, gear to buy, and skills to acquire are the huge concerns of security, self and family protection, guarding your property, and just maybe staying alive.

Survivalists and preppers are gun people. They believe in acquiring a variety of firearms for defensive purposes as well as offensive tactics if things take a turn for the absolute worst. For these purposes a host of weaponry may be stocked and used regularly in preparation for whatever might come down the pike.

The big question often posed by survivalists and preppers is exactly how much ammunition to keep on hand. There are many factors to take under serious consideration as you build up your prepping strategies.

First, how many firearms do you have that you will have to feed? Most will have multiples of handguns, rifles of various kinds, and likely several shotguns, too. These are a lot of guns to stock ammo for, so choose wisely, and above all try to consolidate where possible.

Read the rest of the story here, so how much ammo are you all stocking for when the SHTF?


TOPICS: Outdoors; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; itsneverenough; neverenough; shtf; survival
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To: demshateGod

I hear ya - still a swimming pool is a good water source, a few bags of cheap rice and ramen, some sterno and you can hold out for a while providing youre warm


21 posted on 10/20/2015 8:24:23 AM PDT by Revelation 911
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To: demshateGod

I do not know where you live.

Two or three years ago we had a summer Tornado and an early winter ice storm. Both storms left us without power for almost two weeks.

While we were not drinking out of puddles or rummaging through the trash cans for food...we WERE driving forty minutes to get gasoline. And we sat in line for it.

We were cold. We did not have a generator. We were showering at work and at the gym.

THAT is why I prep.

(I learned reloading because when I go to the range I like to shoot a lot.)


22 posted on 10/20/2015 8:25:19 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: w1n1

The more our side has the better. There is never too much. In every war logistics becomes an issue.


23 posted on 10/20/2015 8:25:48 AM PDT by CodeToad (Stupid kills, but not nearly enough!)
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To: TexasCajun

There’s still time...


24 posted on 10/20/2015 8:29:45 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: w1n1; appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...

Prepper’s PING!

Average American solider on patrol carries 240rds. I have a reserve (separate from range time ammo which runs any where from equal down to a 1/3 of that amount) of just over 8 times that strictly for my battle rifle during shtf.

IMHO anyone who engages in more than 8 fire fights and/or anyone who believes that they could come threw unscathed 8 fire fights during shtf is mental, doing something wrong or both.


25 posted on 10/20/2015 8:37:53 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Vermont Lt

IN addition to typical Honda/ Briggs-Stratton Home Depot generators, add a couple of the inverters that attach to your vehicle BATTERY.

these can push out 2500 - 3500 W continuous when the vehicle is running.

They make a good portable set of alternatives to deliver power on a more mobile and transportable basis than your typical storm generator.

PLUS - your car or truck is virtually inaudible when running compared to a generator. You may find yourself in a situation where you don’t want to advertise your presence.

Also if your outbuilding, or a neighbor’s building or your well head need power, you can drive your car/ truck up next to it without having to lug around a heavy and noisy generator.


26 posted on 10/20/2015 8:38:47 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: w1n1

Enough so that you don’t have to wonder.


27 posted on 10/20/2015 8:40:24 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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28 posted on 10/20/2015 8:40:27 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: going hot

“Enough so that you don’t have to wonder.”

That’s probably the best response to that question I have read. “IF you have to wonder, you don’t have enough.”


29 posted on 10/20/2015 8:43:13 AM PDT by CodeToad (Stupid kills, but not nearly enough!)
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To: theBuckwheat

Put on you fire retardant suit the FR ‘goldbugs’ will be coming for you in 10..9..8..7.....


30 posted on 10/20/2015 8:47:44 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: demshateGod
Although I do think there's about a 50% chance things will go terribly wrong, I'm not ready to commit to prepping.

Isn't prepping jut a form of insurance?

Like car insurance, home insurance, etc.?

Except that unless you have an auto accident or house fire, after the year is up on those kinds of insurance you have nothing and the insurance company has your money.

With prepping, at the end of the year you still have your preps: food you can eat, water you can drink, stored fuel you can use, guns that work and ammo that shoots.


31 posted on 10/20/2015 8:48:47 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: w1n1
Whatever amount lets you sleep at night...Just fill the bunker!
32 posted on 10/20/2015 8:49:05 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Your HKTackdriver photobucket album (public) shows a lot more into your preps and kits.


33 posted on 10/20/2015 9:00:28 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

You’re going to die of thirst long before you run out of ammo...


34 posted on 10/20/2015 9:01:02 AM PDT by Iscool (Izlam and radical Izlam are different the same way a wolf and a wolf in sheeps clothing are differen)
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To: Blueflag

Same thought I had when I looked at the picture.


35 posted on 10/20/2015 9:01:25 AM PDT by Boomer One ( ToUses)
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To: Resolute Conservative
Guns? Ammo? What are those?

Those things you lost when your canoe tipped over several years ago.

36 posted on 10/20/2015 9:04:01 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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To: w1n1; All
IMHO, the primary purpose of having lots of ammunition is to give the would be tyrants nightmares. That is called deterrence, and it far preferable to having to use your prep in actual emergencies.

The secondary purpose is to supply your local militia if things go really bad.

We should not be thinking of individuals or families holding out against rampaging mobs of zombies.

We should be thinking about how we are going to maintain order and restore civilization and the Constitution. Americans spontaneously organize into local militias when needed.

So... the answer is that short of millions of rounds, you cannot have enough. Limit your storage to what you can easily handle in your situation.

Anything less than a couple of hundred rounds per firearm is probably too little.

37 posted on 10/20/2015 9:05:46 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: w1n1

Another consideration is availability of ammo. That Arisaka or Krag might not be any more useful than a bayonet holder.


38 posted on 10/20/2015 9:06:28 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Drew68
In a true SHTF situation, guns and ammo will be lying all over the streets.

Yep. Mostly caused by scoped, suppressed .22 LR rifles ;)

39 posted on 10/20/2015 9:09:00 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: w1n1

Can’t afford ammo any more because of you horders.


40 posted on 10/20/2015 9:09:49 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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