Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

I had a gift card laying around and was short of opportunities and ideas to use it on so I went with an old standby.

I now have about 24 thousand rounds of .22 ammo squirreled away. No, no,no..I didnt buy it all at once, I just figured I may as well load up and picked up about 4000 rounds today.

Naturally, someone is going to ask “Why do you need so much .22 ammo”? Well, the price has gone up in the last few months on it to the point that its about $1.50-2.00 more per brick. So, if it does that again I’ll be ahead of the game. Additionally, of all the calibers I shoot, the .22 is the one I shoot most since its cheapest. So, no, you cant really have too much .22.

Hows it packaged? In its orignal cartons of 550 rounds, 9 cartons to an ammo can, four ammo cans to a shelf. I do believe I could single-handedly re-arrange the Endangered Species List and get ground squirrels in the top ten with all this. Thats….hmmm…. a hundred rounds a day for about 8 months. Maybe that’ll be my goal – 100 rounds per day for one year.
On the bright side, Im pretty much done buying .22 ammo for a while.