How much Ammo is “Enough”?

[BonUm16]

Wow! I guess I better stock up compared to some of you guys!

No doubt. I was feeling pretty good about my stash prior to reading this thread…

 

[Firebird]

I have that same box for my .375 wby-I’m certain I bought it just for the cool box! here are a couple others I have collect through the years. I don’t burn ammo as fast as I used to but sometimes me and the kids will burn a bunch at the range. I’m sure I stock components more than loaded ammunition

 

[Ridge Runner]

In terms of my big game hunting ammo I have the following:

458WM - I bought 660 rounds when I first bought this rifle, plinked away 2/3rds of that in a couple months.

375HH - 120 rounds, lots of cheap PPU and some Norma for hunting.

416 Rigby - bought 200 rounds

470 NE - bought 200 rounds

I had to look at your About info before I replied.
Your in Canada.
My sincerest condolences.
That explains your such low inventory of ammunition.

For those big bores, if your not into reloading they are a good excuse to start.

 

[Woodcarver]

When my Dad died, I inherited all his 30-06 stuff, as well as Grandpa's. With what I already had, there are somewhere between 5000-7000 '06 cases here; some loaded, some waiting to be. Anytime I pick up a new caliber, I'll get from 300 to 1500 cases for it, and accumulate bullets to fit. Occasionally, I'll buy a box or two of factory just so I can shoot it as soon as it gets home. There are 30+ sets of dies in the loading room. It's been a long time since I tried to inventory any of it other than to make sure whatever I'm currently playing with has at least a few hundred bullets to go with it. I am always looking to pick up components on sale.
Cartridges I have an interest in often get bought long before there's a firearm to shoot it with. Bought a couple cases of 9.3x62 solids when Nosler put them on clearance for less than the components would have cost. Two years later, I had a gun to use them in. Gifted ammo for something I don't currently have is typically the beginning of a quest to find something to use it in, and more components in case I really like it.
Hoarding components started with Clinton and the brief shortage he created. Powder by the keg case and primers by the case (when a case had 10k in it) have been the norm since the 90s.
At some point, my son will spend a month or two sorting through all of it and selling what he doesn't think he needs (HA!). He's already hooked. His problem will be hauling it all off. There's no such thing as too much ammo (or components).

 

[Safari Dave]

There has been dozens of videos that have proven that chainsaw chaps are perfectly adequate at stopping the most powerful electric saw currently available, with the worst example I have seen leaving a very slight nick on the fake leg below the chaps.

I do however completely agree with the rest.

I wouldn’t say I have a lot of ammo for guns I don’t own but I’ve found that non-shooters will sometimes give me ammo they somehow have come into possession of. They don’t know what to do with it and I am happy to take any free ammo. I can give it away to someone with that chambering later or I might own a gun in that chambering down the road.

On the more uncommon end I recently got a box of old 300 weatherby magnum. Pretty cool packaging with a tiger on it. I’ll almost certainly never own a rifle in the chambering but who knows? One box hardly takes up any space.

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If having ammo for the best .30 caliber cartridge ever devised is a problem, just send it my way!


The original Weatherby boxes were very cool.

I would love to get all of the animals.

Fox - .224, .240
Whitetail Deer - .240, .257
Tiger - .257, .270, 7mm, .300, .375
Grizzly Bear - .257, .270, .300
Elephant - .378, .460

That's all that I'm aware of at the moment.

 

[Altitude sickness]

I am pleading the 5th. Just in case the Leftists form their own version of DOGE.

The leftist DOGE will not be to find waste, fraud and abuse.

 

[richteb]

My advice is to always buy whatever you find, because you never know when you will get it next. Or when it will suddenly be discontinued. Or when the quality of the ammunition will suddenly deteriorate.

For example, I have always been very partial to Sellier & Bellot 175Gr Nosler Partition factory loads for the 7x57mm Mauser. I had an option to buy 100 rounds in 2017, but I didn’t avail this opportunity. When the Chinese Virus started in 2019, Sellier & Bellot was still listing this loading on their website but in reality… no shop ever seemed to have it on stock. In 2024, Sellier & Bellot declared that they have discontinued this loading.

Same with Nosler’s 300Gr Partition factory load for the .375 Holland & Holland Magnum. Nosler still continues to list it on their website, but they haven’t had any in stock since 2019.

Same with Woodleigh FMJ solid bullets. After the fire at Woodleigh, these simply haven’t been manufactured anymore. The owners of Woodleigh most recently declared that they have no plans to make FMJ solids anymore… at least for this year. So those who intelligently stockpiled in previous years… are the fortunate ones now.

I can think of a dozen more examples since I first began hunting in 1961. But you get the idea…

With the European Union confirming that lead cored rifle ammunition & lead shotgun shells will be completely banned for hunting in all member states (as well as several non-member states) by 2027… it’s extremely likely that most European ammunition firms will discontinue (or at the very least severely cut down on) the production of lead cored rifle ammunition & lead shotgun shells unless demand for export from non EU countries is high enough to ensure that the number of sales of certain products is still profitable (which isn’t very likely). So I highly recommend that those of you who have a favorite make of European lead cored rifle ammunition or lead shotgun shells… better get to stockpiling whatever you can whenever you can.

The old adage is ever so relevant today:
“It is always better to have & not need than to need & not have”.

This is my collection of discontinued .375 Holland & Holland Magnum ammunition. Barring the 300Gr Federal Power Shoks, none of these are produced anymore. But I’m certainly glad that I stock up very regularly.
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Spoke to Woodleigh last week 300 grain 375 solids are available.

 

[Hunter-Habib]

Spoke to Woodleigh last week 300 grain 375 solids are available.

Hydro or FMJ ? Their website says that they are currently not making the FMJ solid

 

[richteb]

Hydro or FMJ ? Their website says that they are currently not making the FMJ solid

FMJ