arsenal ammo amount

ARSENAL AMMO AMOUNT

The amount of ammunition one should acquire for collapse purposes is, like a lot of things, pretty arbitrary.  I live in a small dwelling ( 400 square feet ) and think of it as almost too big for two people.  You might think that you need that much space merely for the first child.  They used to have a standard of 900 square feet for a average size family but now the pampered puke Yuppie Scum turn their nose up at anything under three thousand square feet ( because, you know, what with the fracking miracle and all, cheap natural gas will be available to keep it heated pretty much forever-which is another arbitrary standard.  I get way too hot after 63 degrees, but others insist on seventies plus ).  The size of the “ideal” arsenal is arbitrary.  I think three guns, four at the most ( 30 cal, 357 pistol, forever gun.  At most, 30 cal, large caliber pistol, forever gun pistol, forever gun rifle ) is all you will ever need, but I’d get shouted down by shotgun lovers, carbine commandoes, etc.  No answer is 100% correct, because of everyone’s differing arbitrary standards.

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All you can do is give the reasons for your standards and hope they make sense to other people, at which point the men will enviously aspire to be just like you and the ladies will throw their panties at you in a desperate bid to carry your children.  Actually, that probably wouldn’t happen with me, since the species couldn’t handle that kind of evolutionary exponential hurdle upwards, so I’m safe from fanatical fans out there.  Now, we’ve all read differences of opinion on the amounts of ammo which are ideal.  The semi-auto crowd speaks of hundreds of rounds as a combat load, seemingly taking their numbers from the Vietnam conflict where the cannon fodder humped at a minimum half their body weight through humid jungle as both Charles and the General were amazed-simply amazed I tells ya!- how easy it was to find the lumbering body of infantrymen.  This was the police action ( you can’t lose a war if you don’t call it one ) that included the statistic of twenty thousand rounds per casualty ( and that was with inflated body count numbers ). 

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In that conflict, ammunition expenditure were actually a good thing.  Nothing stimulates the economy in a plummeting EROI environment like a good military action where everyone is trained to dump as much lead downrange as humanly possible.  Actually, as Inhumanly possible, given the weight the grunt were expected to carry.  Hell, introduce a new carbine and round just so we can manufacture more ammo!  And the guys can carry twice the rounds!  MORE!!!  MORE AMMO!!!!!  A hundred years previously, the Army thought a seven round lever action would bankrupt the Union and cause logistical nightmares, but later at the end of the very short lived ( call it fifty years ) Cheap Oil Age,  you couldn’t waste enough ammo.  Electric Gatling guns, anyone?  Today, because the military is even more moronic then back in Vietnam ( if I was a bookie and placing odds on who was more retarded, CEO’s or Generals, I’d have a hard time deciding ), they learned nothing and still use infantry armed with submachineguns to act as tripwires for artillery ( to include air and naval arty ) strikes.  The only reason we can afford the ammo usage is because there are so many fewer grunts and airships and navy platforms now.

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I’ve been talking about Peak Ore for some time, but nobody wants to listen.  They pretend that Obammy had everything to do with ammo shortages, rather than copper supply decline ( I shan’t get into the arguments again as I’ve beaten that dead horse flatter than a pancake ).  If you don’t want to believe we live on a finite planet, that ExxonMobile is the only reason oil isn’t gushing from the ground, I can’t stop you from investing in AR and Berretta arsenals with the corresponding tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition.  Because that is what you will need if you plan on firing three or four hundred rounds of ammo every enemy encounter ( almost every post-apocalypse fan boy fantasy novel, every crapping one a rip-off of ‘80’s pulp series, just with more Jesus Freak families involved for that more wholesome collapse, describes semi-auto’s just as their Yuppie Scum hero’s do- self animating objects capable of saving the least tactically talented from themselves.  Few bother with the logistics of re-supply.  Sure, “pallet deep” is a plan after all, if you happen to have the advertising dollars of companies selling FLIR scopes and freeze dried testicles.  For the rest of us on a budget, however… ).

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Now, it is very easy at this point to short circuit the argument and proclaim that nobody is going to survive too many contacts with the enemy and too much ammunition isn’t even needed.  On the face of it, this is true, but it also ignores the horrendous marksmenship of pretty much everybody.  The idiot brigade that styles themselves part of the Ninja Seal Team will of course blather on about “one shot, one kill”, but historical reality says that is blatant mythos bullspit.  Germans in WWII, who as a group both practiced for and practiced in combat aimed fire ( Americans might have trained as such but once on the battlefield were required to spray and pray-and they didn’t even get enough training to embed the marksmen ideal ), had their snipers, combat vets, at short urban ranges seeing a more realistic three shots minimum per casualty.  Unless you are fighting at the thirty yard Rhodesian Study Standard ( obviously there were prior studies, hence the 1940’s  Soviet adaptation of the 7.62x39, but the Brit colony study is what is referenced to “prove“ average conflict distances ), dumping your two hundred round combat load along with your team, in effect pushing a wall of lead at an enemy, your chances of hitting much are pretty low.

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Which means both that you need a lot of ammo and that you might last longer than you think after the Apocalypse ( at least gunshot wise.  Disease and et al is a different matter ).  You don’t need a lot of ammo because you have a semi ( please!  Don’t have a semi unless you use it at a distance in a mid range sniper role and take your time firing it.  The semi feature should not to used as a spraying device but a means to avoid manually rechambering a round and perhaps as a recoil buffering device for the older and/or prettier shooters ).  You need lots of ammo because you can’t hit dingus and you’ll be around awhile and need protection.  More tomorrow.

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