Was up at the local chain outdoors shop and saw, stacked high, bricks of Federal .22 for the first time in what seems like quite a while. $24.99, which, if you do the math, comes out to $0.0476 per round. I just picked up about 50,000 rounds for $0.0410 per round, so, on a brick of ammo, the difference is about $3 a brick. Multiply that by..uhm…100 bricks…and you get a savings of about $300. I can live with that.
I’m the first to admit that I do not get out into the stores as much as I’d like, so perhaps the availability has been high lately and I simply haven’t noticed, but I actually cannot recall the last time I saw bricks of bulk Federal sitting on the shelf with no limits on purchase.
Did I buy some? Yes, actually. One brick just for some recreational shooting. Yes, I just bought 50,000 rounds but thats Deep Sleeper ammo. It’s for that Really Bad Decade..not for busting rocks at the range. (Well…it might also be used for barter purposes with hungry, desperate, short-sighted coeds who were woefully unprepared for the end of the world.)
Even though I have a bunch of .22 ammo sittinghere, there’s still a part of my lizard brain that has been conditioned over the last several years to grab all the bricks whenever I see them. I have to remind myself “It’s cool..it’s cool…you’ve got plenty.”
But..but…bricks!
Commander:
I’m NOT going to ask how much you have, but there comes a time when you have to prioritise your resources.
What else could you have used that money for – medical, spare vehicle parts, SOMETHING…
Set limits, keep to them, because most of us HAVE to operate that way.
Your statement assumes that I havent prioritized and that the higher-prioritized needs haven’t been met.
Prices have been getting better, but I still find that online is almost always cheaper when buying in quantity – but if certain items are available in cash, it is my preference; I like having capabilities that nobody knows I have, and sometimes calibers or devices that nobody knows I have…
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Methinks you have the rimfire stock pretty well covered. And I thought I had to much at 25K or so. Sheesh. But as many a Wise and wooly prepper has noted, you can never have to much ammo. ( see the utterly depressing movie “The Road “ and on Netflix “ The Survivalist “ for guys who don’t have enough ammo, and where they end up )
There’s really only one way think about whether an amount of something is enough – if tomorrow morning all you had now was all you could have for the rest of your life, would you be okay with that? Because that is literally exactly the standard I use for uncertain goods.
Worst case scenario you just set up a table a the local gun show and sell ammo. Then replace the ammo you sell with fresh ammo. Win-Win situation.
I’m out of town in Eastern Montana working for a few weeks. Stopped by the local wally world for some hotel food, anyways stopped by the sporting good section and picked up 2k rnds (4bricks) of remington thunderbolt for $21.76 each. They had 8 more boxes but….also picked up 2 old hickory 7″ butcher knives on the clearance rack for $5 each.