Originally Posted by daswig

BTW, I don't keep so much "ready ammo" around in case there's going to be trouble. Realistically, I doubt that if there was trouble, I'd need more than 100 rounds ready to go. But I do like going to the range, and sometimes am able to go on very short notice. Since I burn through 10-15K rounds in an average couple of hours at the range, I keep it ready to go so that I don't have to spend valuable range time loading belts, which is a time-consuming process.