I'm not saying goodbye completely

In my last post I wrote about selling on one of my many firearms and mentioned I'd sold on some of the ammunition for it as well. I didn't need or want to sell the ammunition but wanted to give the guy who bought the handgun a good deal (he's new to shooting) so sold him 2,000 rounds at below the market rate he'd pay elsewhere...but he paid more than I'd paid for them too, so it was a good deal all round.

In that post a few people commented on the fact I'd sold 2,000 rounds thinking that that was a lot of ammunition to have in the first place - I guess it could be seen that way, but with how much I shoot it's not actually all that much....and I have way more than that.

The law here is that a licensed firearms owner can have as much ammunition as they can feasibly shoot in a year for each calibre owned...so I do!

I have multiple calibres and hold different amounts of ammunition for each. For example, for my long range rifles I'll hold several hundred rounds (per calibre) as they're used in a more target-specific manner and each round is sent strategically downrange. With my shotguns I hold under 1,000 shells as I don't shoot them much and with my handguns I have many, many thousands of rounds per calibre as I shoot them in various ways which mostly involve shooting hundreds in a short space of time. If I'm out at the range with a handgun it's likely I'll shoot around 300-400 rounds just in a few hours (running and gunning) which means over a year I go through many thousands of rounds.

The reason I like to keep minimum stock of each calibre is because I like to be prepared and wanting or needing to shoot but not having sufficient ammunition isn't something my personality permits; I like to be prepared in all aspects, it annoys me to feel unprepared.

It also means I can buy ammunition, or the components to make my ammunition which I do with my long range rifle rounds and 9mm rounds, when prices are lower. Here, the price of components and ammunition is linked to the US dollar and can fluctuate greatly; I don't see the point in needing but not having the ammunition then having to pay inflated prices when I can buy in bulk when the price is low and keeping a minimum stock of it; that makes better financial sense I think right? In this way I save a few thousand dollars each year at least.

I understand that for those who don't do what I do this won't make much sense and that's ok...playing video games makes no sense to me, smoking cigarettes or buying consumer goods on credit don't make sense to me either...but people do it. What makes sense to me is paying less for the things I know I'm going to need and use, and having those things to hand when I need them, so yep...I have a fuckload of ammunition.