Edited: Please do not make assumptions when you respond. If something specific, such as whether or not I have non perishable food, is important to your response, ASK, don't just assume to know what I have.
I have a plastic ammo can a little larger than a .50 where I am collecting small amounts of various calibers. The idea is to have a 'usable' quantity...hopefully enough to completely fill a gun/magazine at least once...in as many of the most commonly encountered calibers possible. This way if I acquire a new-to-me caliber, have a family member or friend or neighbor or whoever with a gun but no ammo (amazing how often this happens to people...), etc I will have something. A general "just in case" collection.
*As a specific example, because people generally don't 'get it'...I used to have a neighbor who was a former marine and was licensed to carry. He even had several firearms at his place. But he didn't have any ammunition. Not a single round. If something happened, an emergency for him/them, SHTF, etc, I would rather have ammunition that would work in his guns, than not.
So far this is what I have. I am obviously lacking quite a bit.....what would you put at the top of the list? What that I havn't mentioned?
Pistol
.25 auto
.32 auto
.380 auto
9mm Makarov
9mm Luger
.40 S&W
.45 ACP
10mm
.38spl
.44spl
Rifle
.223
7.62x39
7.62x54R
30-06 Springfield
7mm Remington Mag
.243 WIN
.270 WIN
30-30 WIN
.308 WIN
Shotgun
.410 gauge
20 gauge
12 gauge
Rimfire
.22lr
.17 HMR
At the top of my list to acquire:
32 S&W short
.357 sig
.45 GAP
16 gauge
10 gauge
300 Winchester mag
6.8mm Remington SPC
.45-70 govt
5.45x39
7mm-08
.30 carbine
FN 5.7x28
.22mag
Edit: And milsurp type calibers
7.5 French
7.5x55 Swiss
6.5x55 Swede
7x57
8x57
6.5 Jap
7.62 Nagant revolver
7.62x25
I have a plastic ammo can a little larger than a .50 where I am collecting small amounts of various calibers. The idea is to have a 'usable' quantity...hopefully enough to completely fill a gun/magazine at least once...in as many of the most commonly encountered calibers possible. This way if I acquire a new-to-me caliber, have a family member or friend or neighbor or whoever with a gun but no ammo (amazing how often this happens to people...), etc I will have something. A general "just in case" collection.
*As a specific example, because people generally don't 'get it'...I used to have a neighbor who was a former marine and was licensed to carry. He even had several firearms at his place. But he didn't have any ammunition. Not a single round. If something happened, an emergency for him/them, SHTF, etc, I would rather have ammunition that would work in his guns, than not.
So far this is what I have. I am obviously lacking quite a bit.....what would you put at the top of the list? What that I havn't mentioned?
Pistol
.25 auto
.32 auto
.380 auto
9mm Makarov
9mm Luger
.40 S&W
.45 ACP
10mm
.38spl
.44spl
Rifle
.223
7.62x39
7.62x54R
30-06 Springfield
7mm Remington Mag
.243 WIN
.270 WIN
30-30 WIN
.308 WIN
Shotgun
.410 gauge
20 gauge
12 gauge
Rimfire
.22lr
.17 HMR
At the top of my list to acquire:
32 S&W short
.357 sig
.45 GAP
16 gauge
10 gauge
300 Winchester mag
6.8mm Remington SPC
.45-70 govt
5.45x39
7mm-08
.30 carbine
FN 5.7x28
.22mag
Edit: And milsurp type calibers
7.5 French
7.5x55 Swiss
6.5x55 Swede
7x57
8x57
6.5 Jap
7.62 Nagant revolver
7.62x25
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