10-08-2015, 09:54 AM
(10-08-2015, 09:37 AM)Maggot Wrote: I've gone through over 500 rds in one day easily before.
500 rounds is just a good day at the range. When I go I usually take anywhere from 10 - 20 guns and enough ammo to feed them. So even if I only shoot 1 box per gun that ends up being 500 - 1000 rounds.
When buying ammo it is good to buy it cheap and stack it deep. Ammo prices are always going up so if you buy what you will need for your lifetime now it actually saves you money down the road. Simple math will give you a ballpark number on what you need stockpiled. Take the number of rounds you shoot during 1 range session, multiply that by the number of time you go in a year, multiply that by the number of years you think you will be alive or continue to shoot. That's what a shooter should have on hand.
Doing that saves you money as well as keeps you from scrambling to find ammo when you need it. During the great Obama ammo rush of 2008 ammo was nowhere to be found. Since I had what I needed for a lifetime it never effect me in the least. In fact I dug into my stash and sold over 10,000 rounds of 22lr ammo to people that couldn't find any. After all its hard to sell a gun if the person cant find the ammo for it. I since restocked that ammo though.