An Expensive Hobby

I've been bad of late in failing to keep my ammo locker stocked up. I was down to only two or three hundred rounds in each of my most commonly used calibers, and I'd practically run out of .22LR (scandalous, I know).

I put together a shopping list of what I needed in preparation for a trip to Cheaper Than Dirt over the weekend. That list really brought it home to me the proliferation of calibers in my safe. When I originally started buying guns it was for self-defense and I vowed to keep it simple and try to keep it down to a couple of calibers. Then I started buying guns just because I took a liking to them. Well, that blew my original idea of just having a couple of calibers all to hell.

So I went with my friend Rodney over to Cheaper Than Dirt and bought a case of .45ACP, a case of 9mm, 500 rds of .380ACP, 500 rds of .357Mag, 500 rds of .38Spl, two bricks (1000 rds each) of .22LR, and 100 rds of .30Cal Carbine. All told it was just a hair over $600. It's a definite shock to the system when you buy all of it at once. It's a lot easier when you do it a little at a time (a case here, a few boxes there, etc).