FUDD

[The Mouth]

8. One thing about ammo

That some don't get, is that 1000 or 5000 rounds isn't all that much.

Firstly, to get a decent price, or make it worthwhile to set up a reloading run, 1000 rounds is at the beginning of the point of feasibility.

Second is that accuracy takes practice. I'd rather have my 3 round bolt action, and have put 250 rounds through it at the range recently, than some plastic fantastic with 10 30 round mags that I haven't used in a couple of years. Likewise, a few hundred rounds through my trusty 6 shot revolver is preferable to something my dog migh chew up with a bunch of 17 round mags.

Although even the idiotic kerfuffle over magazines misses a major argument for them (in my opinion): when time at the range is precious- hard to come by and/or by the hour expensive- having 5-10 mags loaded up is just common sense, and loading any firearm when it's cold and nasty is annoying, even though all of my firearms don't even use magazines!

My firearms are all pretty much 100+ year old designs, and I am a 'fudd' in the sense that I am pretty sure that if I can't defend myself with 6 rounds in a Colt revolver, I'm basically fucked anyway. Ain't going to stand down a much of bad guys, but enough to protect home and family against some random tweaker trying to kick in the door.