"Well Stocked" or "Hoarder"?

[glock55]

"We'll stocked" is when I buy -------- "hoarding" is when you buy

I think well stocked is when your ammo levels meet your shooting habit and there is a reasonable means of replenishing it as we use it, hoarding is when your ammo levels are such you know you will not shoot anytime soon due to excessive reserves of ammo. We all need a reserve amount of ammo and each person has to make that call. I will also say I don't think the reserve amount is the same today as it might have been a year ago.

[runco]

Well stock = life time supply x 2

 

Hoarding = neighborhood life time supply x 1

[DMark]

I told folks before the last election to have enough ammo to continue at the same pace that they had been shooting for the past two years.

 

That gets you to the next election cycle.

[The Average Joe]

The difference between "well stocked" and a "hoarder" is:

A "hoarder" bought ammo like a mother****er after December 14, 2012....and never shoots it.

Someone who's "well stocked" had been casually buying ammo on line, at gun shops, and to justify his wife dragging him to Walmart, or when he just couldn't find anything in the sporting good store that begged to go home with him....

I'm somewhat of a "well stocked hoarder" for the time being... :rofl:

[Luke E.]

"We'll stocked" is when I buy -------- "hoarding" is when you buy

I know this^ was a joke from you but i do feel this is the way a TON of folks look at it without even realizing it.

[Joe357]

IMHO a hoarder is someone who buys let's say ammo and has no intention of using it but must have it.

I personally buy ammo to shoot.
when I sold all my 9mm handguns I didn't keep any of the ammo, I sold some and gave some away. Did I make a profit on the guns or the ammo? NO. I now have 45's, 22's and wifes 380's. We shoot the 22's weekly and go through 200 rounds a week. I now have a ten week supply. When we are down to 600 rounds then I'll look to buy more. Do I have 45 and 380 ammo? YES, but we only shoot 25 rounds of each once or twice a month so I have enough for ten weeks. I only have 2 box's of each for defensive ammo and that is all I need.

You may say what will you do if you cannot get any range ammo at reasonable prices? Well that is easy, stop going to the range!

Sorry for the ranting Edited May 18, 2013 by joesig

[RichardS]

Tough call, I've wondered recently if I've stepped over the line into hoarding.  I plan to shoot all of it but in some cases have more than a year's supply.  I'm out of small and large pistol primers so will probably overbuy once I find a reasonable deal.  Unfortunately that adds to the problem, honest folks are overbuying right now because nobody knows when they might find said ammo or components again in the future.

[NoBanStan]

I've always had the prepper mindset but not really so much the drive to stockpile. So typically I bought what I planned to shoot and moved on. Obviously since the scare I've been stockpiling, but I only buy at somewhat normalized prices. I've managed to scrape up about 1,200 rounds of .223/556 at an average of 42 cents a round... not terrible, considering. I've made the decision that I won't ever let myself get under 1,000 rounds again.

 

My other calibers... well, I can't afford to buy ammo daily.. so I started with the one caliber, got to my happy point and now I'm on to 9mm. Only have 400 rounds at the moment but at least when you do find it, it's 50 to 100 at a time vs. 20 here and there. next it's .45.... then it's 7.62x54r then on to 7.62x39... 22.. and so forth.

Edited May 21, 2013 by NoBanStan