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Posted: 3/13/2005 8:30:24 PM EST
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Posted: 3/13/2005 8:42:51 PM EST
Hi, luvkypunk, [ETA: "luckypunk"] welcome to our group.
^^^ my original mispelling..sorry. but then you mispelled your own name in your post... 
I have almost 10k .308 and 10k 5.56.. well actually 6k 5.56, and the rest civvie .223. Most of my stash has come from getting lucky [if you call it that] finding good prices on ammo and having the ability to take advantage of it. My best recent score was three 1260 round cases of SA battlepack .308 minus 2 packs for $277. Having that much ammo on hand is not without it's problems, I recently had to move about 2/3's of my ammo to a different room due to floor issues... My plan is to just shoot what I have for now, and continue buying when I find deals. I doubt I will ever be "out of ammo" and, in a pinch I can reload for my blasting ammo so as not to be forced to dig into my SHTF stash. The hardest part for me is inventory and orginization. |
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Posted: 3/13/2005 8:45:28 PM EST
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Posted: 3/13/2005 9:00:50 PM EST
are you not suppose to?
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Posted: 3/13/2005 9:01:46 PM EST
See my fort threads
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Posted: 3/13/2005 9:04:00 PM EST
Thats because you are. |
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Posted: 3/13/2005 9:06:33 PM EST
I have enough ammo on hand for shooting for a long long time... I need to order more, so I can build a ammo can fort like Taxman!
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Posted: 3/13/2005 9:10:39 PM EST
History of the last century has shown that you just never know when you will need your guns and ammo... and you just never know when is the last time you will be able to buy ammo. Without ammo, a gun is just a chunk of steel. One without the other is useless.
There are some things things a man just cannot have too much of... money ammunition gas in the tank "altitude is money in the bank" (if flying) and p----. |
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Posted: 3/13/2005 9:12:36 PM EST
You left one thing out....
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Posted: 3/13/2005 9:52:54 PM EST
As long as only one of those are open at a time...
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Posted: 3/14/2005 1:35:30 AM EST
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Posted: 3/14/2005 2:28:44 AM EST
What was the hunting rifle that you got rid of? I've got to know before I split open a few esoteric rounds and toss the components into the fire of the ammo gods on your behalf for penance. Dave S |
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Posted: 3/14/2005 5:19:35 AM EST
Got any links for us? 
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Posted: 3/14/2005 5:27:27 AM EST
For those who haven't seen it, it is a must see. |
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Posted: 3/14/2005 5:37:28 AM EST
Someone please post a link to taxmans Fort / ammo thread or a pic please. |
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Posted: 3/14/2005 6:07:40 AM EST
Tell me about it.. I was in my kitchen the other day noticing the wall-ceiling junction looked odd:  At first, I thought WTF is wrong with my roof??!!?? It turns out the OTHER end of this wall ends at my Guncloset, and the floor was sagging. So I had to move part of my ammo. 
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Posted: 3/14/2005 6:49:07 AM EST
Hey boy, that is one pretty picture! I sure wish some folks would make a Patrick Henry, James Madison, John Taylor or, Thomas Jefferson, et al, beer so guys like me can make some pretty centerfolds too!
Man that is pretty! |
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Posted: 3/14/2005 7:12:05 AM EST
My ammo philosophy is simple; Buy it cheap, stack it deep. Simple economics is my driving motivation.
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Posted: 3/14/2005 12:46:01 PM EST
If you have to ask, you don't have enough.
If you still have room where you store your ammo, you don't have enough. If you find youself spending the food money on ammo, stop, you have enough. Then you shoot it, first in, first out. Replenish as required! Tom 
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Posted: 3/14/2005 1:07:16 PM EST
 
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Posted: 3/14/2005 1:25:20 PM EST
If you can count it, you don't have enough
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Posted: 3/14/2005 1:53:51 PM EST
I shoot ammo too quickly, I can't keep much around the house. I have 500 M193 ready to go if I ever need it. Other than that I have my range ammo in the garage, right now about 1,000 .45 and 1,000 .233, when that gets to 300 rounds I'll buy another case or two.
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Posted: 3/14/2005 2:03:26 PM EST
I keep only the ammo I shoot or have guns for.
223 308 762x39 9mm 38 22lr Got about 2-3K of each min of each. |
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Posted: 3/14/2005 2:28:04 PM EST
You don't count the rounds... dummy, you count the ammo cans. Duh.
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Posted: 3/14/2005 2:44:26 PM EST
yo luckpunk, i say minimum 10,000 556 and 10,000 308 PLUS all the ''other '' calibers.
and also i am an ADDICT myself. i shoot religiously every satuday and sunday. and during the week. i get nervous when i dip under 20k.
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Posted: 3/14/2005 2:47:31 PM EST
I found that the best way to store ammo was to buy steelcase cabinets at state and biz auctions, 4 50 cal cans go in each drawer, 16 boxes per cabinet X 4 cabinets, now I need another 2 cabinets as I have 4 shelves full of full ammo cans, plus a box of 2700 rounds of SA. 223 is easy, .45 and .454 can get pretty heavy. Now I have to stock up on 30/06 for the Garand.
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Posted: 3/14/2005 2:50:16 PM EST
Simple mathamatics:
Take the number of rounds you shoot per year times the number of years you expect to live, and that is how much ammo you should have. Until you have that amount, you should buy more when the price is right, and bills are low. Simple really. |
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Posted: 3/14/2005 2:54:09 PM EST
For thoes looking for the TAXMAN links to his fort.
Fort link 1 fort link 2 Welcome Edit Nevermind I was going to say something mean. However I think you may know after looking. |
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Posted: 3/14/2005 2:55:08 PM EST
I use a steel office cabinet:  
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Posted: 3/14/2005 3:08:05 PM EST
CJan_NH
Care to share some of that? 
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Posted: 3/14/2005 3:38:32 PM EST
Your shelves bring new meaning to sagging bottoms. One day I am waiting to hear a crash of my shelves falling. Mine are mounted to to floor joices and a cement basement floor. Very easy to underestimate the weight one is holding. I believe the next ones I build will be angle iron, welded up and braced to the wall. .45 is extremely heavy compared to almost anything else. I keep it on the low shelves or in the lower cabinet drawers. |
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Posted: 3/14/2005 3:52:25 PM EST
I've got several Knaack tool boxes in my basement full of ammo. Knaack boxes are very secure and strong. The ones I use are model #2060. When fully loaded and locked they are impossible to pickup and move. Their good for storing guns in too.
www.knaack.com/content.cfm?page_id=16&subcategory_id=2 |
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Posted: 3/14/2005 4:07:22 PM EST
Are 50,000 rds with 30,000 being .223 enough or should I keep going? Never know when the zombies might show up
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Posted: 3/14/2005 4:36:14 PM EST
I know more than one person who uses an Excel Spreadsheet to keep track of his stock and locations.
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Posted: 3/14/2005 4:56:47 PM EST
When I visited Century Arms I counted pallets of 7.9 Mauser....
came up to over 40 Million rounds....... Oh my Kingdom for a Maxim Gun............ |
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Posted: 3/14/2005 5:41:40 PM EST
Ok. I fixed it. I bought enough to fill existing mags. If I can't Get'RDone with that, I guess the zombies can eat my wifes brain (I can run faster than her)
CJan_NH and fight4yourrights beautiful cabinet skillz. That's perfect. That is what I will do. Thanks for the "goal" I admire someone with priorities, Taxman, But just make sure you are getting a little Punani on the side or people will start to worry. We will still worry about the Brown vodka though. |
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Posted: 3/14/2005 7:09:09 PM EST
Heh, that's true-those shelves weren't meant to carry as much as I have loaded on them They aren't sagging as badly as they look in the photo though. I reinforced the shelves with angle iron and through bolted it to each side of the cabinet. It isn't pretty but it works well. The cabinet is mainly to keep the ammo organized, and also to keep my daughter's curiousity at bay. In addition to the (worthless) keylock on the cabinet I have the doors secured with a padlock: 
Absolutely! If the shite hits the fan everyone is invited to the CJan homestead. Bring your beer, your rifles, and your food-in that order My wife is one hell of a cook, and can do *wonders* with the campstove if the electricity and gas service is out.We can defeat the zombie hordes while drinking the finest stockpiled instant coffee that money can buy 
That's how I do it too. I've been trying to convince my wife to help me add some mathematical formulas to the spreadsheet. It would be great, for example, to know how many rounds of ammo I can reload based on an eight pound bottle of powder. |
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Posted: 3/14/2005 7:20:09 PM EST
Someday... I will have that kind of ammo horde, but now I am in college and am lucky to keep enough on hand for probable self-defense scenarios and practicing.
Stupid school. |
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Posted: 3/14/2005 7:29:32 PM EST
+1 WIZZO |
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Posted: 3/14/2005 7:32:15 PM EST
Everyone has to start somewhere Brother! Hopefully your schooling will lead to a rewarding, lucrative career allowing you to buy whatever your heart desires Back in 1991 I was a student and bought my first two ARs with money I had saved during the previous summer and had earmarked for tuition. Looking back it was a pretty stupid decision-I thought my Mother was going to skin me alive. Thank God I wasn't living at home. On the plus side I had two brand new shiny and beautiful Colt ARs. I couldn't afford ammo or a range membership, so they sat unused in a closet for a couple of months. My Father finally took pity on me and bought me my first case of ammo-right after he finished tearing me a new asshole for being so stupid with money. Little did he know that 14 years and thousands of dollars later he had created a monster
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Posted: 3/14/2005 7:49:35 PM EST
Many hunter types I know that have no use for an AR, AK or whatever tend to think that owning 100 rounds for their favorite hunting rifle makes them set for life. Once you buy an "Assault Style" weapon, that 100 rounds is maybe 1 or 2 hours shooting at the range.
I think at least a case of good quality for each weapon is a good starting goal. |
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Posted: 3/14/2005 9:59:26 PM EST
You guys are SICK!!
But I LIKE it!! 556man
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Posted: 3/15/2005 2:46:41 AM EST
Is that unusual?
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