How much rimfire ammo is enough?

[mrmarky]

Buy BUY Buy like I say when my wife says "don't you have enough NOWWW??? Hey,, I don't wanna run OUT! Get all you can,,, while you CAN

 

[rex soldier]

i try to stock up , but the more ammo i got the more i shoot . so i never got more then 2k.

 

[joekoug]

Between my uncle and I we have 7 or 8 thousand rounds of .22 in the safe. I buy a bulk pack whenever I see them at wallyworld.

 

[grunt soldier]

lol you can never have enough. if i see it i buy it. i mean what is 15 bucks for 550 rounds of ammo lol. if only 5.56 was that expensive

 

[saw223]

Does anyone else besides me tend to have a really high failure rate with .22 ammo that's older than 10 yrs. or so? Seems after it gets older than that I get anywhere from 5-15 out of a box that fails to fire, even with multiple strikes, with multiple brands. Always stored in a dry temperature controlled enviroment, I wonder if vaccu-sealing my .22 ammunition will help.

 

[SemperFiUSMC]

Over 80K rounds. Allows me the shoot a couple hundred rounds a week.

No such thing as enough. Absolutely no such thing as too much.

 

[RH822-A]

My wife is always harping on me as too why I need so much ammo. ZOMBIES, Duuuuh...she just doesn't get it.

I have about 5000 rounds of .22lr.

 

[pinshooter45]

Never enough!

I've began stocking up on .22's. Try to buy a bulk pack every payday to catch up. But I reload other calibers as much as possible so no one knows how much I have...right now I have XXXX amut of ammo.

 

[Wheezy50]

I'm still trying to increase my stock!! I'm also on the "try to buy a bulk pack every payday" plan.

Right now i'm only at about 3-4k.

 

[Srtsi4wd]

Does anyone else besides me tend to have a really high failure rate with .22 ammo that's older than 10 yrs. or so? Seems after it gets older than that I get anywhere from 5-15 out of a box that fails to fire, even with multiple strikes, with multiple brands. Always stored in a dry temperature controlled enviroment, I wonder if vaccu-sealing my .22 ammunition will help.

I had some really old .22 that was my father-in-laws. Some was at least 20 years old and then some was about 10 or so. I had the same thing happen with the 20y/o ammo. The 10 y/o ammo has less FTF but I did notice that all of it was very inconsistent. Some sounded like subsonic ammo and some were normal. Dont have a chrono, so no hard data.

I wonder if the FTF are from the priming compound coming loose from the rim channel and leaving empty spots, if not the entire rim. Never opened any up to see.