22LR, assuming you have a pistol chambered in that caliber. Fortunately, you can do most of this with. You can easily go through a few thousand rounds of ammo teaching someone to shoot decently. Training can actually end up being your biggest ammo use if you haven’t trained your family in shooting before the disaster happens. So three basic loads of pistol ammo doesn’t come out to more than about 150 rounds, three boxes. That’s because pistols are not used to fight a battle, but as a self-defense weapon. The infantry basic load is three magazines one in the gun and two in a pouch. Stockpiling 1,000 rounds of pistol ammo is even more unrealistic. Each attack will probably get larger and unless you can raise an army, you’re eventually going to be outnumbered and outgunned. I picked three because I seriously doubt any of us could survive more than that. If we assume three attacks on our homes, then three basic loads comes out to 630 rounds. If that’s enough for them, what makes any of us think we’re going to go through more than that in an attack on our home? We’ll probably go through much less. That’s intended to be enough to last one day. How many attacks of your home do you expect to survive? Infantry soldiers only carry 210 rounds of 5.56mm rifle ammo into combat. I think the big factor for those who are recommending that you have 10,000 rounds, is home defense. It’s doubtful that you’d go through more than a few hundred rounds in your entire lifetime. Larger caliber rifle rounds for hunting big game is another matter. Fortunately, that’s cheap ammo, so it’s easy to stock up on. 22LR, perhaps even a few thousand rounds of it. Small game is always more plentiful than big game, so count on a lot of. Related: 6 Best Guns to Have After an EMP
Five years after an EMP there might be so much game, that they’re coming into suburbia and you’ll be able to shoot them without ever leaving your property. If 90% of the population dies out, as the EMP Commission has said, then the game will come back with a vengeance. But looking beyond that, a lot will depend on how many people survive.
If we look down the road, chances are that game levels will become severely depleted. Still, stockpiling ammo for hunting makes sense, even if it is unlikely that you’ll be doing much hunting. But if you live in suburbia, it’s not very likely that you’ll be doing a whole lot of hunting. If you live in a small town in the middle of forested mountains, then hunting will probably be a major food source for you. How much ammo you will actually need can be broken down into a few basic categories:ĭetermining how much ammo you need for hunting depends on how much hunting is a part of your long-term survival plan. Others will tell you that you need 1,000 rounds per firearm or per caliber.īoth of these are blanket statements, which don’t necessarily have anything to back them up. The base problem is that none of us have any idea what sort of disaster we’re going to face or how long it’s going to last.īased on that, it only makes sense to figure on the worst-case scenario, something like an EMP with the resulting long-term breakdown of society.īased upon this sort of scenario, there are some who will tell you that you should have 10,000 rounds of ammo, possibly even breaking that down into different types for your different guns. Like anything else we add to our stockpile, that’s difficult to say. The big question for most preppers is how much ammo they should have on hand. Besides, you probably already have your guns. I’m just going to limit myself to talking about ammo here, as one article isn’t enough to cover both guns and ammo. Having said that, let me try and give you a few ideas. So ultimately you’ve got to make your own decisions. What works for one, may not be ideal for another.
There are a lot of opinions floating around out there and there really isn’t one pat answer which works for everyone. No, what I’m talking about is what guns to have, how many guns to have, and how much ammo you need for them. There are plenty of anti-gun people in the world, who will be glad to tell you how wrong you are for having those guns in the first place. I’m not talking about whether or not you need them it really doesn’t matter what people think about that. Some of the more controversial items in any prepper’s stockpile are guns and ammunition.
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