Thread: The largest stash of factory ammo you ever bought

What's the largest amount of factory ammo you bought at once?

For me, 1k of PMC bronze 9mm, when I bought a CZ 75. No big deal.

I have heard of more interesting stashes. One guy who was really wealthy told me he went into a syndicate which bought CAC out of the last of their .22 supplies when they were winding up. If memory serves, it was somewhere between 100-250k rounds.

I listened to that fact with my mouth flapping open and closed. Finally intelligent noises came out in the form of a question:

"What did you shoot with it?" I asked.

His answer was simple, direct ,and profound.

"Everything".

His older brother managed to be in the right place at the right time to score a batch of surplus NZ Army 7.62x51 ex Singapore stocks being flogged off.

I asked him how much, and he had no idea of numbers, but gestured the dimensions of what he'd bought, and from memory, it was about a cubic metre.

Impressive, but it will tie him to owning and using a 308 for the rest of his natural life, seeing he intends to keep it all.

30 slabs of 12 gauge on one occasion and 4000 rnds of 22 on two occasions.
It might not count but I had 15,000 223 projectiles at one time as well. Got rid of the lot one way or another.

I got a mate with a feral pig problem in aussie that bought 80,000 rounds of 308 and 25,000 of 223.
True story!

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Originally Posted by andyanimal31

I got a mate with a feral pig problem in aussie that bought 80,000 rounds of 308 and 25,000 of 223.
True story!

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Yeah I’m pretty keen to tag along on the next trip to visit your mate.

Originally Posted by MSL

Yeah I’m pretty keen to tag along on the next trip to visit your mate.

I haven't been invited back yet!

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Originally Posted by andyanimal31

I haven't been invited back yet!

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No surprises there.... invite yourself?

Originally Posted by andyanimal31

I got a mate with a feral pig problem in aussie that bought 80,000 rounds of 308 and 25,000 of 223.
True story!

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Fucken hell..


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Originally Posted by tiroatedson

Fucken hell..


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Hope they do, that's where I'm going


Do primers count ?

I got 100-130000 last year

Not all for me but ...

Originally Posted by andyanimal31

I got a mate with a feral pig problem in aussie that bought 80,000 rounds of 308 and 25,000 of 223.
True story!

Yup, that wasn’t unusual over there, back in the day. Several of the feral pest controllers I worked with would buy military surplus ammo in those kind of quantities for one year.

They would also buy several of their preferred semi-autos like Saiga, SKS, some old ARs and just shoot them until they stopped and chuck them.

Much of their work was done from little choppers, they didn’t like heavy recoilers, so the 5.56 and 7.62x39 were popular, three into the spine around the shoulders, game over. Pigs, camels, donkeys, scrub bulls... the one none of them liked shooting was brumbies.

There’s a place I visited in 2015 again to catch up with an old mate, I shan’t name it as the population is (was?) 12 and the personalities there are well known in the district... There’s a nondescript container out the back of a nondescript brick house where an old fella lives, he’s a character alright still works for the SES. Well what’s in that container is probably highly illegal, maybe not who knows, cos despite his age he’s still shooting camels and donkeys... but there’s enough ammo in there - French military surplus - to keep Waiouru in business for a year or two. It would all have been acquired legally, back in the day, just suspect the rules have changed...

Originally Posted by Flyblown

Yup, that wasn’t unusual over there, back in the day. Several of the feral pest controllers I worked with would buy military surplus ammo in those kind of quantities for one year.

They would also buy several of their preferred semi-autos like Saiga, SKS, some old ARs and just shoot them until they stopped and chuck them.

Much of their work was done from little choppers, they didn’t like heavy recoilers, so the 5.56 and 7.62x39 were popular, three into the spine around the shoulders, game over. Pigs, camels, donkeys, scrub bulls... the one none of them liked shooting was brumbies.

There’s a place I visited in 2015 again to catch up with an old mate, I shan’t name it as the population is (was?) 12 and the personalities there are well known in the district... There’s a nondescript container out the back of a nondescript brick house where an old fella lives, he’s a character alright still works for the SES. Well what’s in that container is probably highly illegal, maybe not who knows, cos despite his age he’s still shooting camels and donkeys... but there’s enough ammo in there - French military surplus - to keep Waiouru in business for a year or two. It would all have been acquired legally, back in the day, just suspect the rules have changed...

Apparently you couldn't buy a 44 gallon oil drum or pvc pipe for love nor money. Bunnings must have sold out of entrenching tools too ha.

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I bought the entire South Island stock of .303 ammo (233,000 rounds) from the NZ Army in 1989. I sold it all (apart from 4 cases I kept for my own toys) in less than a year. It was all CAC 1954 bandolier packed, clean and surefire.

His older brother managed to be in the right place at the right time to score a batch of surplus NZ Army 7.62x51 ex Singapore stocks being flogged off.

I asked him how much, and he had no idea of numbers, but gestured the dimensions of what he'd bought, and from memory, it was about a cubic metre.

Impressive, but it will tie him to owning and using a 308 for the rest of his natural life, seeing he intends to keep it all.[/QUOTE]

The Army saw him coming the reason they sold it was it was total crap, a friend scored some of it best group he got from it in a Sako 75 was 8" at 100 metres,
best story I heard was a group of shooters in the US bought 1 million primers took a year to swing the deal, next time there is a primer shortage you'll know why

Originally Posted by shooternz

His older brother managed to be in the right place at the right time to score a batch of surplus NZ Army 7.62x51 ex Singapore stocks being flogged off.

I asked him how much, and he had no idea of numbers, but gestured the dimensions of what he'd bought, and from memory, it was about a cubic metre.

Impressive, but it will tie him to owning and using a 308 for the rest of his natural life, seeing he intends to keep it all.

The Army saw him coming the reason they sold it was it was total crap, a friend scored some of it best group he got from it in a Sako 75 was 8" at 100 metres,
best story I heard was a group of shooters in the US bought 1 million primers took a year to swing the deal, next time there is a primer shortage you'll know why[/QUOTE]


He pulls the military ball projie's out of his 7.62'S , and seats hunting ones.

Originally Posted by Max Headroom

The Army saw him coming the reason they sold it was it was total crap, a friend scored some of it best group he got from it in a Sako 75 was 8" at 100 metres,
best story I heard was a group of shooters in the US bought 1 million primers took a year to swing the deal, next time there is a primer shortage you'll know why

He pulls the military ball projie's out of his 7.62'S , and seats hunting ones.[/QUOTE]
That's a sensible move

^^233,000... That’s hard to beat.