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How doyou not have enough already
Define enough. Enough for what?
But, the reason I'm still accumulating rather than just holding onto what I have is that I prefer to have enough to A: supply other people should it be necessary.
B: have enough for practice in a similarly emergent and long term situation (say a major hurricane leaving an area devastated for weeks to months).
C: to be able to use my more specific task firearms for those tasks/practice when I want to rather than having to deal with finding ammo per use.
D: some ammo is more expensive, so I can't usually afford bulk purchases
E: not every type of ammo is right for every use (say, wadcutter vs fmj vs frangible, etc)
And, F: while I don't have a massive gun collection, they are each a different caliber except for having two .45s that are set to for different uses. So I'm trying to stock up a half dozen calibers, in different types of ammo. Makes it take longer to reach a given goal.
As an example, even sourcing the rounds for one of my rifles is disgust difficult because it's not a super popular round, but it is just in demand enough that I can only find one box as a time, and never even that during hunting season. I only have two boxes of twenty for that rifle, which isn't even enough for a day of serious practice with it. It's my second favorite long gun, period, but without ammo, it's a wall hanger.
But my 45 stash is already massive. A few hundred fmj, similar wadcutter, plus a few boxes of my preferred carry ammo for the one I keep handiest. The other is a target shooting piece, which I rarely get to do any more, but I do have a dozen boxes of stuff just for that.
It's kind like if you're an avid home cook. You'll never use every spice in the rack at once, but you want to have anything you might want ready to go because if you get a wild hair up your ass to make chicken paprikash, you want the right kind of paprika, not just a random single type, you dig?
Hell, for anything other than the handguns, I've only been gathering ammo for a few years. They're all fairly recent acquisitions (right before covid, and ammo was scarce back then), and my budget for ammo is tiny. As in maybe a box or two a couple times a year. With the handguns, I was given four or five ammo cans full of 45 when my grandfather gave me the target shooting one. But some of that won't cycle in my carry gun, so out of the thousand-ish I have in 45, only maybe a hundred can be used in both, and that's not a very big supply.