[RebelTXRose]

Any idea how this compares to previous orders?

[tanknetter]

And how recent is "recent"?

The Federal Government goes on a massive spending spree every late August through September as "end of year" money needs to be spent. Not spending money results in that money not only being returned to the treasury, but subsequent years' budgets reduced (OMB, etc, look at any surplus and project subsequent budgets down ... since an agency with a surplus just has too much money to begin with).

There are all sorts of stories about obscene quantities of "stuff" that gets purchased with EOY dollars. The one that really stands out to me is how DoD, in the late 1970s, bought something like 150 YEARS worth of mainframe punchcards in order to completely spend their budget.

[JrsyJack]

Any idea how this compares to previous orders? Last order I placed was only 50 million rounds...