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knowing the legal limit in MA is 10K rounds, personally I'd like to be close to that.
500 rounds of 9mm is less than 30 mags. That's a trip to the range for training.
I've taken several pistol and rifle courses. It's typical to shoot 1,000-2,000 rounds PER DAY.
You can never have enough ammo or loaded mags. I suppose if I had 100k rounds of each caliber I'd think about slowing down my purchasing and focus on buying mags.
As to the OP question, I miraculously maintain my center fire stock at exactly the legal limit of 10K rounds at all times. There's no way I would have any less, and of course I can't have more.
Until I need one of these to manage my ammo supply, it's not enough...
Um... yes you can. The permit from my FD costs $15, though, or 4.1 cents per day. See section 13.04 of the 527 CMR, or this page from GOAL:
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Seeing noone is bothering to give a reasonable answer, allow me to try.
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This is my list - I use it to be sure not to get too carried away on my ammo purchases - a lot easier than looking thru ammo boxes for a count.
It's an Excel sheet that I made into a PDF for posting.
It auto-calcs for me, the numbers at the bottom are totals of Rimfire, Centerfire and Shotgun, the numbers to the right are what I would like to get to round it out when money, availability and qty remaining allow.
It's not a good idea to stockpile ammo by the palette, as many people here are aluding to. That's because ammo manufacturers are constantly coming up with new loads and offerings, and you don't want to be stuck with a pile of older ammo when a new and improved load is coming out. I found that out the hard way with all those bricks of .22 LR I squirrelled away.
The only time I would consider not buying ammo would be when I strongly suspect it will be cheaper next week.
It's not a good idea to stockpile ammo by the palette, as many people here are aluding to. That's because ammo manufacturers are constantly coming up with new loads and offerings, and you don't want to be stuck with a pile of older ammo when a new and improved load is coming out. I found that out the hard way with all those bricks of .22 LR I squirrelled away.
Until I need one of these to manage my ammo supply, it's not enough...
knowing the legal limit in MA is 10K rounds, personally I'd like to be close to that.