What is your minimum comfort zone for brass stock?

[DRAM40A1]

I just keep buying it. My wife asks, did you need more of that. My answer, what's need have to do with it?!!!!

 

[kmoore]

How much does that mortar can weigh, once it's full? Might be a real chore if you have to move it!

I don't move it around. Just open and scoop out.

 

[protoolman]

I can tell you a full 5 gallon bucket will hold around 7000 .38 special brass. I figure 2000 .357, .45 auto and maybe as little as 800 .32 mag and .45 colt I think will last a lifetime. I figure my 1500 lbs of lead for bullet casting should keep the brass fed. So how many primers is probably the better question??

 

[irishjack]

Ditto to what bwct said above.

 

[dannyd]

Dividing the time I have left by the buckets of brass on hand, I am good to go.

 

[Pál_K]

I have one or two empty brass cases of 7.62x25, about two cases of .357 SIG, and a few of 5.7x28 that I all keep in a small box.

But I don't shoot those calibers: they're just part of my random case collection. Bottleneck pistol rounds look good.

Other than .22 rimfire, I reload everything I shoot; this consists of the more common calibers from .380 ACP to .50 BMG. I never bought into the New Caliber Craze that started around the year 2000; what I have is pretty traditional. 7mmBR might be the only "exotic" round I have - that's for Silhouette in an XP-100.

I try to have a few hundred rounds of brass and projectiles for everything. Oddly, primers and a wide variety of powder is what I have the most of.

 

[XP100]

Only factory ammo hav ebought since I started loading in 1981 was for resale in my gun shop. I have enough powder, brass, bullets primers and shotshells hulls to last longer than I will.

 

[hike]

I try to practice/shoot twice a week. If I feel bad, I shoot around 100 a session but, if I feel normal, I shoot around 200. If I feel better-than-normal, I shoot 250-300.
The last time I went shooting with a family member, we went through 1,200 rounds in a weekend.
500-1,000 doesn't last long around here.

 

[Rclark]

Won't live long enough to use up what I have.

My estimation as well.