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thirtydaZe:
When you are purchasing bulk ammo, what route are you generally taking?  last year i started stocking up, but i mostly bought only plinking rounds.

I'd really like to have a good supply of ammo that counts, however, obviously most of my shooting is just going to consist of target practice at the range.

Just curious how others manage their back stock?

SemperFiGuy:
For general target and practice handgunnery:
I maintain an inventory of many buckets each of 9mm, .38SPCL, .40S&W, and .357SIG target-velocity light reloaded rounds.  And shoot frequently at the range, as indicated elsewhere on this Forum.   (I also maintain an inventory of raw reloading components in these same calibers.)

For Self/Home Defense, Concealed Carry handgunnery:
I buy 50-100 rounds of a good, reliable self-defense jacketed commercial factory loads (usually the same as a local LE agency).  Then shoot off a couple of magazines of these rounds to ensure that they feed properly and cycle well through the handguns.  After about a year or so, I then shoot up all of the remaining SD factory rounds and start all over again.  To keep the inventory fresh and also to buy and test newly developed SD ammunition.

General Practice/Policy:
High inventory of target rounds; low inventory of self-defense rounds.

sfg

shooter:

--- Quote from: SemperFiGuy on September 23, 2014, 12:43:06 PM ---General Practice/Policy:High inventory of target rounds; low inventory of self-defense rounds.sfg
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   so low inventory of self defense rounds,  that's like what? maybe 5,000 per weapon?

SemperFiGuy:
Shooter:


--- Quote --- that's like what?
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By now you've seen enuf of my Forum postings to figger that I'm a True Believer in the importance of shot placement.

So....maybe....One Good Round?  Then there's no need for spare magazines, as discussed elsewhere on this Forum.

[That self defense ammo is now being sold in 20 round boxes at 50 round prices.  It's expensive.]

sfg

Gunscribe:
One and done is the ideal and we would all like to think that we are capable. The truth is that trained professionals have a one-in-four hit ratio in a high stress situation.

That equates to three hits somewhere on the target for every twelve rounds fired. In some firearms that is well into the second magazine and over half of most others.

It is fine to imagine what you might do but understand the reality is going to be something else altogether.

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