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How Much Ammo Do You Keep?
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<blockquote data-quote="cowboy" data-source="post: 1145797" data-attributes="member: 8833"><p>There are a number of reasons why I keep components on hand. Obviously there has been the availability factor but on the big picture I try to buy primer, powder and bullets in quantity so as to have the same lot number for consistancy reasons. I don't want to reinvent the wheel so to speak on my loads by buying one pound of powder and then find out a short time later that the next pound has slight burn rate difference etc. - same with primers and bullets. This has really been made evident since pretty reliable chronographs have been made available to the general public.</p><p> </p><p>As far as loading up more than I can use in a reasonable time frame I don't do it. Things change - throats on barrels ware and you may need to do a little tweaking to reobtain the accuracy you were accustomed too. If something drastically changes I would prefer to pull dozens or hundreds of bullets - not thousands. I guess a lot of it depends on what you want/expect out of your ammo/rifle performance and at what distances you use them at.</p><p> </p><p>As to the situation of ammo basically lasting forever if kept dry. I would say it would last longer and still go boom for a very very long time. How accurate and consistant it is at longer distance is something that in my opinion would have to be tested/proven.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowboy, post: 1145797, member: 8833"] There are a number of reasons why I keep components on hand. Obviously there has been the availability factor but on the big picture I try to buy primer, powder and bullets in quantity so as to have the same lot number for consistancy reasons. I don't want to reinvent the wheel so to speak on my loads by buying one pound of powder and then find out a short time later that the next pound has slight burn rate difference etc. - same with primers and bullets. This has really been made evident since pretty reliable chronographs have been made available to the general public. As far as loading up more than I can use in a reasonable time frame I don't do it. Things change - throats on barrels ware and you may need to do a little tweaking to reobtain the accuracy you were accustomed too. If something drastically changes I would prefer to pull dozens or hundreds of bullets - not thousands. I guess a lot of it depends on what you want/expect out of your ammo/rifle performance and at what distances you use them at. As to the situation of ammo basically lasting forever if kept dry. I would say it would last longer and still go boom for a very very long time. How accurate and consistant it is at longer distance is something that in my opinion would have to be tested/proven. [/QUOTE]
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