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The ammo thing is strange. It's as if they estimate their probability of survival in a firefight by assuming their adversaries will be as accurate as storm troo
by pps43 6y ago
The ammo thing is strange. It's as if they estimate their probability of survival in a firefight by assuming their adversaries will be as accurate as storm troopers from Star Wars.
- bluGill 6y agoAmmo is useful because if civilization ends you can hunt deer and other wild food with it. How they survive the end of civilization is something I've never understood. If the world population is in the thousands odds are you are dead.
- pps43 6y agoYou'll need at most a hundred rounds. There isn't that many deer around. Yet preppers hoard tens of thousands of rounds. If you want to be sustainable, get a crossbow instead.
- HeadsUpHigh 6y agoYou can burn a lot of ammo in a single fight if you have any kind of fully or semi-auto gun. Human vs human is what these people prepare for the most. A crossbow is a terrible idea as well. You need specialized machines in order to re-string it let alone if any other part fails. If your plans require zero reliability to civilization then traditional archery or an ~100lbs recurve bow modified with a trigger and a compound aim is your best bet.
- bluGill 6y agoRight, but the point is that human VS human isn't very likely.
- HeadsUpHigh 6y agoI'd say it's much more likely that the original suggestion of being in the last few thousand alive
- bluGill 6y agoYou need to account for practice shots, and misses as well. Though that gets you to maybe 1000 rounds. Though if you are hunting rabbits you need a lot more ammo. Most preppers are hoarding ammo too light for deer hunting, though a good shot works I use more powerful ammo than a typical "assault rifle"