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 The Pitchfork’s survival projects, Survival Ammo Stash

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Do not foresee a moment, a battling; foresee two years and more, a
warring.  Pitchfork

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Introduction

There are plenty of out-there-in-the-real-world answers to 'How much ammo stash is enough ammo stash?'  ['Stash' is the in-term for ammunition storage.]

• Some ammo stashes are essentially indifferent in all aspects - kinda organic  - unregulated, self-styled 

• Some ammo stashes are assorted among calibers and gauges according to someone's prescription if not their own

• Some ammo stashes are downright thoughtful, rationalized by rates of use for target practice and rollover of inventory relative to a fixed base

• Somme ammo stashes are accretive, aggregative . . . when you buy ammo for a practice or a hunt, buy extra or twice or whatever and take the excess home

• Some ammo stashes are limited by discretionary funds

• Some ammo stashes seem to rival a gun store's

Four strains of seeming sensibility with smatterings of nay-sayers arise from sorting out what others are up to with their ammo stashes.

• Break 'em up into ammo storage boxes here and there, in deference to the day when someone might come looking for and finding your ammo, but not all of it

  • A corollary:  For humping ammo from here to there and back or not, the ammunition storage boxes may facilitate and expedite mobility and utility thereat

• There's the possibility that, under field-fighting conditions, others' stashes may become yours; therefore, larger stores may be unnecessary (a wishful forecast majorly contended) 

• In times of serious trouble, ammo could become a medium of exchange - especially, it is thought, .22 long rifle ammunition rounds; therefore, if you're gonna stock up on ammo, stock up higher on .22 long rifle ammunition - some say, way higher

Long guns - rifles and shotguns - get higher per arm allocations than handguns, often expressly in accord with Clint Smith's "The only purpose for a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should have never laid down".

Pitchfork's take on modal average prescriptions for ammo stashes: 1000 rounds for each long gun - rifle or shotgun - except 10,000 rounds in .22 long rifle ammunition for each .22 rifle (additionally, subsonic .22s as suits you); 500 rounds for each handgun.  Pitchfork's only major amendment to this inventory would go to upping hunting rounds for those shotguns ticketed for cultural hunting [read: for the dinner table]. . . probably #4 and #6 birdshot; but, really, again, as you like it.