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Love these sorts of threads Smile

They imply scale and proportion, along with incentive.

Have a goodly amount of offensive stuff and a reasonable amount of the other kind Wink

When it becomes quiet again, shall resume acquisitions.

If it doesn't, well, should be enough to last long enough.

No worries.

The mofos are working hard to push the button and we shall see if they can succeed, one way or another.

God bless!




 
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I have a metric shit ton of hollowpoints, buckshot, and rifle ammo. I also have a metric shit ton of JHP and bird shot. I stacked it deep when it was cheap, but I have yet to be bored enough to count it though.

Not just 9mm either, I have the ammo to defend myself against any mammal in North America. Probably made more sense when I lived in Alaska and there were 60+ brown bear and 300+ black bear living in the city limits.



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No need to spend on stuff I don’t shoot. I shoot my edc ammo annually and replace it. I practice with ball or cast bullets.

So I have two boxes of Speer Gold Dot for each handgun and nine loaded AR mags (in a load bearing vest)with rem PSP because that’s what my old dept carried...once I shoot it up I will likely go to gold dot for the AR

But I’ve got enough ball ammo to start a small war.



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Case per caliber. I am deficient in 12 Buckshot and Slug. Only one case each and I have multiple gauge guns. Will rectify that when the price becomes reasonable.
 
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~100 rds of SD ammo per caliber. I should probably add to that the next time I get the chance. Thousands of range ammo.


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I'm sticking to the more popular calibers:
9mm, .45, 5.56, .308, 12ga

I probably have enough to let multiple bad guys know they picked the wrong path in life.

That being said, I could always use an extra 1000 rounds. Wink


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Good question. Last week, I bought 300 rounds of 62 grain Gold Dot and 200 rounds of 124 grain HST to go with my regular stash. Until Wally World stopped selling ammo, I would regularly buy 100 round boxes of Remington green box JHP. It wasn't much more than FMJ and seemed a good fall back if either FMJ or JHP can't be found. I have boxes and boxes of this stuff.

Edited to add I picked after work today 50 rounds of 2.75" 20 gauge slug and another 550 rounds of Remington Golden Bullets that my PPQ-22 really likes.

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I still have ammo from the 80's. Don't use it enough, but that never stopped me from buying over the years.. Some of the revolver calibers just don't get used up as much..
 
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Yeah I have a ton of target ammo but only a couple of hundred rounds of quality pistol and rifle defensive ammo. Something that I will be taking care of if I can ever find and quality ammo.
 
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In handgun about 100 rounds each caliber but I stock SD bullets and can roll my own if need be. I can hand load every caliber I own but 22lr and I have plenty of that. I’ve got enough powder and primers to last my lifetime (brass too).
 
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Enough to make the news if they make a raid, lol.


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See what I mean about scale, proportion and incentive? Big Grin




 
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I don't know, or care. Last time I checked, the gun was loaded with all 5 rounds. Smile Can't even find or get any in .32 Colt. Its all lead bullets, loaded long ago. But I still don't care. Trust me, enough.


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I have enough components to reload 8k 9mm JHP. Usually keep around 1K loaded up.
 
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I don't know, or care.
Dick, that's the last time I want to see this kind of remark from you for a very long time.
 
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9mm--about 2K. Mostly Federal HST, some Federal 9BPLE and some Hornady XTP's too.

45acp--about 500, mainly Rem 230gr HP.

38sp/357mag--about 1K various JHPs

5.55 -- about 2K, mainly Federal XM193, some green tips too.

12ga--about 250 of 00 Buck, about 250 slugs



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Solid
 
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Originally posted by slabsides45:
Enough to make the news if they make a raid, lol.



this,

it will take them a while to spread my crap out on a tarp for a pic,


may need a few tarps,



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...some green tips too.
OH MY GOD!!!!! You mean the ARMOR PIERCING BULLETS?!?!?!? OH MY GOD!!!!

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I have three magazines full for each pistol (.380 (7 rds ea), 9mm (15 rds ea), and .45 acp (7 rds ea)) pls the shotgun.

Now elsewhere, there's also about 2k rounds built up for 9mm, .45acp, and .223 plus, makings for an additional 5k rounds of each.






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