Posted: 11/20/2006 11:14:46 AM EDT
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My single "best tip" is to buy a single box of 9mm WWB (100 value pack) at Wal Mart once a week as part of the grocery budget. At first my wife complained (because it meant she had to stand around sporting goods to wait for the counter person to actually show up) about doing it. I started it as part of the "hurricane supplies" of which we bought a little of every week. But that adds up to 5,200 rounds of 9mm every year at the affordable price of around $530. And because it is part of the grocery budget, you don't really feel it. Now my wife is just so used to it she doesn't even ask, she just buys it. She's even gotten to the point where she screws with the cashier who makes a comment after ringing up chips, soda and 9mm. "It's for the boys submachine gun." 
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I do sort of the same. I have a monthly reloading budget. Every month I order components to reload 1000 rds of both .223 and .45, which are our two main calibers. It makes it much easier on everyone by keeping me from going "Oh shit! I am down to 1k of .223." and having to order components for 5000 rounds. 
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| Good tip. I have been doing it on a monthly basis with rifle ammo (e.g. a case of 1k Guat M193 every month) but the principle is the same. You don't feel the bite as hard when you're building your stockpile over time ... as opposed to buying 20k of M193 at once. |
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I sort of do this too, but with socks and underwear instead. I have more pairs of underwear than AR mags. I can't go to Costco without picking up a sixpack of each. It's like they call to me. you need more underwear. buy more socks. you don't have enough underwear.  btw, they're all white, midrise briefs for anyone who needs to know such things. The underwear, not the mags. |
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[obligatoryWalMartslam]WalMart is de debil![/endetc.] I used to hit them more or less weekly thru last winter. I would wipe them out of 9mm and .223WWB. At one point it was about as cheap as buying new brass. Once the prices started to scoot I reverted to reloading. Now I cruise online looking for sales/closeouts and spend what I have budgeted in irregular frenzies. |