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Posted: 3/30/2015 10:22:54 PM EDT

I'm talking ammo labeled or intended for "self defense" purposes. Yeah yeah, FMJ will work too but to me, FMJ/ball ammo is training/plinking ammo.

In my CCW I ran 500 rds of ball without a stoppage before I bothered with and JHP's. Since JHP's cost a lot more I think I only ran about 50-100 through it.
Due to cost and now availability I believe I only have about 2 boxes of 9mm Winchester Rangers along with a box of HST's.

All I got left in 45 is the 9 rounds to top it off with some HST's.

About 2 boxes of Federal Urban Tactical in 223.

30 power Shok 12ga slugs
15 federal tactical 12ga slugs
5 Federal 12ga '00

That's it for "defensive" ammo...

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:26:22 PM EDT

[#1]

I don't have any cop killing hollow points! You must hate the police!

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:27:00 PM EDT

[#2]

13 rounds right now. I need to order more.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:27:11 PM EDT

[#3]

Not much, I have a couple quality boxes of HPs for my carry guns. Also have 30cal ammo can of 00 buck, Maybe 100 rds.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:27:19 PM EDT

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No, none of them are Teflon coated...

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:27:48 PM EDT

[#5]

Right now I'm down to just what's in my magazine. Need to get some more.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:28:02 PM EDT

[#6]

Around 200 rounds of speer gold dots loaded in mags, more brown box buckshot than i can imagine needing and a couple thousand rds of m855- it has the green tip=defensive round

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:28:35 PM EDT

[#7]

A lot.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:28:35 PM EDT

[#8]

I've got enough to keep my carry guns and spare mags full.

Maybe a couple spare rounds here and there that didn't fit in the mags.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:29:15 PM EDT

[#9]

I like to keep at least 250 9mm HSTs and 3 30rd mags of BH 50 gr TSX on hand. More is better.

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Posted: 3/30/2015 10:30:34 PM EDT

[#10]

One box, something like 20 - 25 rounds. I ran a couple boxes through the gun to make sure they were reliable and haven't touched the remainder since, I stick with FMJ's for plinking and competition.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:30:53 PM EDT

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147gr?

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:31:21 PM EDT

[#12]

100 rounds of hollow points few thousand of ball

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:32:15 PM EDT

[#13]

Once I'm confident that a gun can run a certain brand, no more than 20-40.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:33:10 PM EDT

[#14]

At least I'm not the only one who only has enough rounds to keep carry guns running with good JHPs.

147gr HST in the 19 and 17 with a spare 17 mag and 124gr in the 26.

Planning on getting a few boxes of 147gr in the upcoming weeks.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:35:03 PM EDT

[#15]

Hardly any. I have two loaded mags each for a G26 and G35. One AR magazine of TAP. And whatever is leftover in the boxes, maybe like 50 or so all together. I shoot them off maybe every two years.

My ammo fort is all FMJ and some dreaded green tips. "Defensive Ammo" is definitely a weak point in my preps. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:36:16 PM EDT

[#16]

I buy 50 rounds of Hornady 147gn XTP to the stash monthly. It's actually a line item in my budget.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:36:32 PM EDT

[#17]

I have 200 rounds of Hornady Critical Duty 9mm +P 135 gr and 200 of the IMI MK262 clone loaded in magazines. Thousands of ball ammo also.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:36:53 PM EDT

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I like to keep at least 250 9mm HSTs and 3 30rd mags of BH 50 gr TSX on hand. More is better.

147gr?

124 +P. I'd get 147s if my wife's pistol didn't hate them.

ETA: assuming I could actually find the 147s.

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Posted: 3/30/2015 10:37:15 PM EDT

[#19]

I reload jhps to factory specs to practice/break in a gun.

Keep a 2 or 3 mags worth of factory ammo is SD guns.

Shoot & replace factory ammo annually.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:37:44 PM EDT

[#20]

500 or so Winchester Rangers.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:38:44 PM EDT

[#21]

A bag with a couple days worth of stuff. Less than 500 rnds.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:39:07 PM EDT

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I don't have any cop killing hollow points! You must hate the police!

No, none of them are Teflon coated...

Ahhhh you are okay then.

In all seriousness I may have ordered a case or two or three of the government contract overrun Winchester Ranger 9mm 147 gr SXT from SGammo when he had it in stock a few months ago.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:39:26 PM EDT

[#23]

A box or 2 from trades. I've bought 1 box of the Hornady stuff.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:41:50 PM EDT

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This.

Plus, while I prefer JHP or the like, I'm not above shooting someone with FMJ from a rifle or pistol if it's all I got in the house.

Not to metion 00 buck 12g.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:42:26 PM EDT

[#25]

~300 rounds with 200 being my main carry ammo. Another assorted 100 of ammo I used to carry.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:42:31 PM EDT

[#26]

I found .45cal 230gr XTP's on sale last year for 17bucks and bought 1k of them. I had to buy some new brass to do it, but the boxes are all empty.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:43:29 PM EDT

[#27]

About 700 147+p HST and double that of 147 ranger, along with some other gold dot, black hills with Barnes, 9bple.

About the same in .45

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:43:43 PM EDT

[#28]

Between rifle and pistol rounds... I couldn't carry it all if I had to bug out.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:44:55 PM EDT

[#29]

I have a bunch in each caliber that I use.

Enough for initial engagement. After, if therr is an after, FMJ.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:45:18 PM EDT

[#30]

Everything I run through the 650XL is GDs or XTPs in 9mm so yeah.

77gr stuff in the AR

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:47:33 PM EDT

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Well, I bought my hollow points at the cop shop (GT Dist).
Do the cops know they are supposed to use them against each other?

Also, the cop ammo comes in boxes of 50 for about the same price as a box of 20 at the regular gun store.

I have at least a dozen boxes for 9, 40 and 45.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:48:25 PM EDT

[#32]

200 rounds of HST's not currently in mags

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:49:23 PM EDT

[#33]

Not enough

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:49:43 PM EDT

[#34]

1000's. I have no idea really. 9mm, 40, .45, 44, .357, 12 ga, 5.56, .308, etc.

Once I got my SHTF ammo squared away, I bit the bullet and spent the cash on premium stuff. Still (always) buying too.

Posted: 3/30/2015 10:50:40 PM EDT

[#35]

About 700 rounds of mixed 45, 40, 9 and 38

Posted: 3/30/2015 11:05:51 PM EDT

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124 +P. I'd get 147s if my wife's pistol didn't hate them.

ETA: assuming I could actually find the 147s.

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I like to keep at least 250 9mm HSTs and 3 30rd mags of BH 50 gr TSX on hand. More is better.

147gr?

124 +P. I'd get 147s if my wife's pistol didn't hate them.

ETA: assuming I could actually find the 147s.

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I was going more with finding them! The shops around here always had a ton of Gold Dots but hardly and HST's and they were usually 124's. It was easier to find 230's for the 45.

Posted: 3/30/2015 11:06:35 PM EDT

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500 or so Winchester Rangers.

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Posted: 3/30/2015 11:07:53 PM EDT

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About 700 147+p HST and double that of 147 ranger, along with some other gold dot, black hills with Barnes, 9bple.

About the same in .45

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Posted: 3/30/2015 11:08:54 PM EDT

[#39]

All of it!

Posted: 3/30/2015 11:09:01 PM EDT

[#40]

2 boxes of gold dots for my 1911s and 2 boxes of 62gr fusion for the ARs for deer season. All the rest of my rifle ammo is 55gr ball. Shotguns...I keep at least 2 boxes of #8 birdshot around for my uncle Joe double barrel HD gun.

Posted: 3/30/2015 11:11:53 PM EDT

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I've got enough to keep my carry guns and spare mags full.

Maybe a couple spare rounds here and there that didn't fit in the mags.

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About this, but I define carry gun as anything I could carry, and have a holster to do so.

So that includes some guns that I've never carried, and may never. (For a while, I was searching for a 'boat gun', a quality firearm that I didn't pay too much for, so if I had the 'boating accident', it didn't cost me too much. I have a few 'boat guns')

I unload the mags into coffee cups when I go to the range.

Posted: 3/30/2015 11:12:43 PM EDT

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About this, but I define carry gun as anything I could carry, and have a holster to do so.

So that includes some guns that I've never carried, and may never. (For a while, I was searching for a 'boat gun', a quality firearm that I didn't pay too much for, so if I had the 'boating accident', it didn't cost me too much. I have a few 'boat guns')

I unload the mags into coffee cups when I go to the range.

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I've got enough to keep my carry guns and spare mags full.

Maybe a couple spare rounds here and there that didn't fit in the mags.

About this, but I define carry gun as anything I could carry, and have a holster to do so.

So that includes some guns that I've never carried, and may never. (For a while, I was searching for a 'boat gun', a quality firearm that I didn't pay too much for, so if I had the 'boating accident', it didn't cost me too much. I have a few 'boat guns')

I unload the mags into coffee cups when I go to the range.

Oh, and I forgot. My reloads are HP's. They really aren't that much more expensive, in bulk, than FMJ's. I don't normally carry them, but...

Posted: 3/30/2015 11:13:32 PM EDT

[#43]

All my ammo is defensive ammo, some of it is just more effective than others.

Posted: 3/30/2015 11:16:13 PM EDT

[#44]

1000rds of Speer Gold Dot 9mm 124 gr +P.

2000rds of 62gr Federal Soft Point (Cant remember the exact load, Home Land Security contract overrun)

3000rds of 180gr Federal HST in .40

Have another 500rds of Speer Gold Dot +P .38spl

Posted: 3/30/2015 11:17:21 PM EDT

[#45]

Down to 4 boxes of 147gr HST, 2 boxes of 147gr HST +P, realy wish I could find more of regular 147. Also have a couple boxes of 230gr HST and 5 boxes of Hornady .223 TAP FPD.

Posted: 3/30/2015 11:18:38 PM EDT

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All of it!

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Hey, I got that same bed for my dag

Posted: 3/30/2015 11:19:28 PM EDT

[#47]

Thousands.

Posted: 3/30/2015 11:19:54 PM EDT

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2 boxes of gold dots for my 1911s and 2 boxes of 62gr fusion for the ARs for deer season. All the rest of my rifle ammo is 55gr ball. Shotguns...I keep at least 2 boxes of #8 birdshot around for my uncle Joe double barrel HD gun.

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Please tell me you aren't using birdshot in any HD capacity!?!