deavis said:
Life is a competition for resources. Compete or quit, don't complain that some are willing to do the former. I was thinking about only buying 25k of primers next month, I'll go ahead and buy 50k just because I can. Who shoots only 2000 rounds a year anyhow?
Wow! That's a lot of primers...
I have to wonder though... Since NFPA says to store no more than 10,000 primers in the home, does this present the reloader with issues if we have a fire in our home?
I'd hate to have a homeowner's insurance claim denied --
in the tragic and unlikely event of a fire -- simply due to the fact that I kept more powder/primers in my house than fire code would allow.
Anyone have any experience on this, or knowledge of the problem?
On a personal note, I've never been into the "hoarding" method, as it has been called. I have a lot of hobbies, and they all cost money... Plus, money can only be spent once. I wouldn't mind having a nice stockpile of ammo, but I don't really have the resources to buy them in the quantity that I would like!
We all face that "hindsight is 20/20" thing... I wish I would have bought a lot more ammo at mid-90's prices, and those who bought a lot more ammo than I did back then often wish they bought even more. For that matter, I guess I could have stockpiled gasoline in barrels in my backyard, and it would have been just as valuable from an investment purpose?
Prices go up over time. Sometimes they are a bit artificially inflated (think home values), and in those cases they will tend to come back down. Given our current situation in the world (economy, war, US Dollar value, fuel costs, metal costs, etc), I don't think it is beyond belief to assume that ammo prices will come back down at some point (arguabley not to 1998 prices, but much lower than they are now).
So, for the time being, I buy a bit more than I need, but not a ridiculous amount (if I need a few hundred primers, I'll buy a brick of 1,000... If I need 500 bullets, I might go ahead and buy 1,000... but, I'm not rushing out to throw 100 pounds of powder and 500,000 bullets in my basement right now).