Prepping & Ammo

Hey all today I'm going to be talking about 2 of my favorite things, guns & prepping. Alot of people out there that prep as I do tend to wonder "When do I have enuff ammo?" the answer is 2 sided, the first answer (and the easiest) is that it's up to u, it depends on what makes u feel comfortable, if 500 rounds for each of your firearms is what u feel comfortble having stocked up, then that's what u go for. The second answer is a little more complicated and a little more my personal opinion, so feel free to ignore it. Basically in my opinion u should have 2000 rounds for each of your firearm catagories, those catagories are ......

1)Main Battle Rifle

2)Pistol/Sidearm

3)Long Gun/Long range rifle for hunting or long range defensive shots(usually a Bolt Action rifle)

4)Shotgun

5).22

This Philosophy is simply my own personal preference, but I find it useful. The details are that no matter how many firearms u have of each catagory, u should feel comfortable having 2000 rounds per catagory, not per firearm.

In otherwords if u are using an AK47 as your main Battle Rifle, and u happen to have 2 AK's u still only need 2000 rounds of the ammo. Same thing goes with all the catagories. The only exceptions would be if u have 2 firearms that could be used in a particular catagory, and they use different ammo, then u should choose which one u will stock up the ammo for unless money is no issue for u, in which case, Congratulations!!!

Anyway, the other exception would be if your Main Battle Rifle and your Long Gun use the same caliber, a good example if if your long gun is a .308, and your main battle rifle is something along the lines of an AR10 or some sort of FAL or clone, in which case u should still maintain 2000 rounds for each rifle, not 2000 rounds to share between the 2 because they fall into 2 different catagories, therefore are for 2 different uses.

All the catagories should be pretty elf explainatory, except for the .22, for that I recommend having both a good .22 rifle & a good .22 pistol, mainly for small game, but can be used as a last resort self defense weapon, and I recommend both the rifle & pistol be compatable with .22lr not any other .22 caliber variant because it is the most widely used, and therefore most easy to come by.

Now as for choosing a caliber for your catagories, thats a long discussion that revolves around personal preference, ammo availability, ammo price & ammo commonality, so we'll leave that for another time.