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?
I can understand the hesitance to accept a gold coin. There are so many fakes, or gold plated coins, that it would really be taking a chance to accept one as payment if you didn’t have the equipment for testing it for actual gold content.
The smart prepper keeps some at home (for bugging in) and has a means of moving as much equipment as possible (part of the bugout plan), and the really fortunate preppers have a remote location (bugout location) where they store half of their supplies or more. The bugout plan with a bugout location is that all members of the party, given certain criteria, get to the bugout location.
By the way, this doesn’t apply only to guns and ammo but to all supplies (food, water, medicine and medical supplies, hygiene supplies, electronics, communications, etc.).
Kind of what I thought.
Thanks.
damn straight.
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Thank you for reminding me of the Jesus Pin.
Ordering one now.
How long does a pin last, anyway? Mine has tiny pits on the end but works fine.
Speaking of nicotine, I wonder how this vaping craze will affect the bartering realities of post-SHTF.
The batteries are either rechargeable AA or 18650, and it is possible to stockpile the “juice” and other related paraphernalia.
I envision selling individual hits of nicotine to desperate people.
Post-SHTF, nicotine will be comfort food.
Thanks for the informative coffee post.
Last night we toasted some pumpkin seeds in the oven on a cookie sheet.
Can I do that with green coffee beans?
I've had no problems with steel-cased Russian ammo in three M1 Garands. I don't generally run it through my match rifle, but I'm real, real picky about the ammo I run through it, and don't run *just any* brass-cased surplus GI or commercial ammo through it, either.
Yeah, I've got spare extractors and the combo tools with which to put 'em in. And having been a company-level armorer in the M1 Garand/M1 carbine/M14/M16 days, I know how to keep 'em going, too.
My grandfather said that you didn'r really need more shootin' irons than you could swim the nearest river with.
However, he did not follow his own advice. And he didn't mention anything about how much ammo.
The tac tray for the coaxial [coax] machinegun mounted on the inside left wall of our M48A5 tanks held 6000 rounds. We often carried enough spare boxes of ammo on the floor in ammo cans [200 rounds each, or if we had enough time to break it down and refill the cans the way we liked, 250 rounds each] to refill that, and outside the tank on the external bustle rack, about half that much again [in a USAF mini-gun ammo can for 3000 rounds] plus extra .50 ammo, and an extra can or two [1000 rounds] of .45 for our pair of M3A1 .45 *greasegun* submachineguns and our half-dozen or so .45 pistols. All told, it added up to a load of around 15,000 rounds for the one coax machinegun. One morning we had fired off that much ammo before noonish lunchtime. It was, as we said in the business, a busy day at the office.
The guy behind the log does NOT have enough ammo. Or spare barrels.
Circa 1965, I recall getting FN *Oxyless* [non-corrosive] 9mm parabellum for $4.00 per hundred. The early FN primers were not long-lived, and with a few exceptions, tey were insensitive to anything less than an open-bolt submachinegun, the exception being a second or third hit from the double-action trigger/hammer of a Walther P.38 autopistol. From every box of a hundred, I'd have between a dozen to 25 rounds of duds.
No matter. I got a bullet puller, primed empty brass commercial cases, dumped the FN powder in the case [which was okay] and seated the pulled bullets. They worked fine. Once I ran out of factory jacketed bullets, I began using 130-grain lead bullets for the .38 special; that too worked fine. Rifles was another story, but at the time I was running through maybe 5000-10,000 rounds per week.
Of course, WWII surplus 7,92mm was going for $5.00 a thousand, but you had to strip it out of the machinegun links it was packaged in. I built a neat little machine to do just that; still have it.
Then there was that 37mm antitank gun....
Ammo Chick asks, "Did one of you boys say you were low on ammo?"
Yeah, but you could at least stack it a little neater.
True. However, if you should happen to notice a fire, you might not want to use your truck loaded with gas and ammo to drive over it to try and put it out.
The link takes you both to the clever comments, one pic of the brurning vehicle, and a link to the original Kansas City Star story. Kids, don't try this at home.
My grandfather said that you didn'r really need more shootin' irons than you could swim the nearest river with.
I agree. One rifle, and one sidearm. I definitely can't swim a river with an 81mm mortar tube.
However, he did not follow his own advice. And he didn't mention anything about how much ammo.
He didn't drown, did he???
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He didn't drown, did he???
Nope, and that's not generally much of a consideration in New Mexico where he came of age, nor in Wyoming, where he later homesteaded.
He was, however, a Navy man during WWI. THat may have been an influence.
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