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Not everyone that is stockpiling ammo (or anything else) is expecting TEOTWAWKI scenarios and having to bug out in the dead of night. They instead are hedging against legislation or some other factor that makes the availability of firearms, ammo, or components unavailable, extremely expensive, or in limited supplies. Whether it is for them, or more likely, their future generations they are putting it back against such occurrences.

Frankly, stockpiling x1000s of rounds for TEOTWAWKI is not likely to help much. If it gets so bad that I'm expecting to need to use x1000s rounds in a firefight or several skirmishes my chances, or the chances of any with me, of surviving are pretty slim. The odds of catching a round, I would think, are pretty high and without immediate trauma center care the likelihood of surviving a gunshot gets pretty low. Even if it is a survivable wound then I'm still out of or at least limited in the fight and probably for a long time afterward. If it is one of my companions then they have to be tended to. In this type of scenario it would be evade and escape with as few rounds fired as possible. If I haven't bugged out, which I'm not likely to do anyway, then unless my household bands with the surrounding neighbors I'm probably going to get dry gulched while tending the garden or picking up eggs. One or just a few cannot stand guard 24/7 for long. Even if I had the ultimate bug out location getting there and staying unknown is not to be easy. TEOTWAWKI is a pretty bleak future and I think I'd be better to just go home to my Maker.

How you wish to plan ahead is entirely up to you. Setting back reloading components is good. Storing up loaded ammo is good. Acquiring more parts and mags is good. Getting training, learning how to garden, being skilled at fixing things are all good.

I do a little of all and not enough of any. Just keep chipping away at it. I'm planning more for the legislative disaster or local civil unrest than TEOTWAWKI.

I set 1000 rounds of each of my go-to calibers as a minimum to always keep on hand. Then I have my working stock that I try to replace two boxes for every one shot (although I'm not very consistent at this plan). I mostly reload for my 300BO so it is just a matter of trying to make two rounds for every one I shoot and storing away the extra (also hard to do since it is so much fun to shoot). Any extras goes in the stockpile but the 1000 minimum is never touched. Ultimately I'd like to have multiple 1000s of rounds but it is slow going within the household budget.

Lambda Force wrote:Here's a good starter kit.

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