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Someone mentioned competitive shooting. Something you may not know is that many of the top handgun competitors shoot between 30,000 and 100,000 rounds per year. Jerry Miculek posted a video a while back showing how he cleans his brass. He tumbles it in a concrete mixer and then dries it in ovens. Figure the top 20 pistol shooters probably have over 1,000,000 rounds on hand between them. At 50,000 rounds each, it's not hard to store all of that. Maybe 25 ammo cans. 30 max.
An average handgun or carbine class, not your run-of-the-mill CCW/CHP class, will require that you bring 500-1000 rounds for each gun. An IDPA match usually requires 125-150 rounds depending on stage rules and your accuracy. USPSA is probably higher and 3-Gun higher still.
I can see 8 trillion rounds of ammo being out there easily.
Thank you for reminding me, OP. I need to find a new recipe for 9mm. Power Pistol is getting hard to find.
Just on 1 goose hunt I can go through 50 rounds of shotgun shells, and I hunt pretty much every weekend during the season. I chew through a lot of shotgun rounds during waterfowl and upland game season.
I roll my own big game centerfire. I only shoot maybe 20-30 rounds a year.
I definitely shoot more shotgun shells p/yr than pistol/rifle combined..
I'm going to go out on a limb and ask if you really know much about guns? I ask because you mention flash suppressors like they are some magic device that makes muzzle flash impossible to see. In case you didn't know, they hide the flash from the shooter. That's it.
Someone mentioned competitive shooting. Something you may not know is that many of the top handgun competitors shoot between 30,000 and 100,000 rounds per year. Jerry Miculek posted a video a while back showing how he cleans his brass. He tumbles it in a concrete mixer and then dries it in ovens. Figure the top 20 pistol shooters probably have over 1,000,000 rounds on hand between them. At 50,000 rounds each, it's not hard to store all of that. Maybe 25 ammo cans. 30 max.
An average handgun or carbine class, not your run-of-the-mill CCW/CHP class, will require that you bring 500-1000 rounds for each gun. An IDPA match usually requires 125-150 rounds depending on stage rules and your accuracy. USPSA is probably higher and 3-Gun higher still.
I can see 8 trillion rounds of ammo being out there easily.
Thank you for reminding me, OP. I need to find a new recipe for 9mm. Power Pistol is getting hard to find.
I love me some thousands and thousands of rounds of 9 ‘sillymeter’
I suspect the majority of gun owners only have a couple hundred rounds or less on hand at any given time and there is only a tiny minority that actually stockpiles ammo in quantity. Hopefully I'm wrong.
We have people like this in my family. Hundreds of rounds of ammo. Flash suppressors, telescopic sights, bipods and assault rifles. They live in a fantasy world of a Rambo like uprising when the government comes to take their firearms. They're usually angry hostile types who had a grudge against the world even before the right to bear arms movement heated up.
Hundreds of rounds? Lions and tigers and bears, oh my.
Estimates of gun ownership is between 400 and 600 million guns. Probably around 100 million modern sporting rifles are in the hands of Americans. (AR, AK, etc)
I’ve seen estimates of 8 trillion rounds being out there in the US.
Just thought I’d tell that story.
Making ammunition more expensive does little to affect gun owners
Believe me, we stocked up a decade ago.
LOL! Very true.
And no one knows how many firearms people have. In those states requiring licensing, they may know which and how many handguns are owned by those in possession legally. But rifles and shotguns? Forget it.
I suspect the majority of gun owners only have a couple hundred rounds or less on hand at any given time and there is only a tiny minority that actually stockpiles ammo in quantity. Hopefully I'm wrong.
You would be way wrong. Especially here in CA that has a pending law for ammo so EVERYONE is stockpiling.
Good reloaded ammo is better than factory and for travesty you can't tell it apart from appearance so there ya go.
I've been reloading since the 70s and I was just a lil kid loading with my Dad.
For .223 I can get 1000 rounds out of one jug of powder.
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