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Any modern high power round would likely do to bring down deer and black bear, which would be the wild game where I live (upstate NY). What I have in mind is if the societal disruption lasted a year or more; there's the need to replenish the rounds. I would need to do one or more of the following in order to keep ammo:
1. Buy enough stock to last a long time
2. Reload my own brass
3. Trade for more (trade food, my labor, et.)
It's the trading/scrounging that I'm thinking of. I have a neighbor that stocks 30-06 and .243. There's no point in trading if the neighbors don't have the right caliber. I'm not sure trading is even a good alternative. I certainly wouldn't trade away rounds unless I needed something critical like an antibiotic. Maybe I should just forget about trading/scrounging and just make sure I can reload the rounds that I have?
How many rounds would you keep on hand? A couple hundred for hunting and another couple hundred for defense? I'm thinking that if there's a firefight where I expend more than a couple hundred rounds, I'm probably toast anyway.
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KirStang, I'm assuming that I'll be stationary. I have a defensible home in the mountains. I'd be defending against raiders/refugees from the City. I can feed my family here; on the road, we'd just be another group of refugees.
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