[Railsplitter]

Your thoughts on the practicality of ammo being bought much as gold or anything else of value as a hedge against inflation. Pros and cons for this ideal.

 

[Danke Glock]

The pros are you’ll have ammo in periods of shortages and you‘ll be insulated from price spikes. The cons are there is an opportunity cost of not investing in other, more liquid assets, that could provide a higher return, you need storage space for the ammo, and if not properly stored it could spoil the powder or primers. You‘ll also be exposed to future legislation that could adversely effect an investment in ammo. For personal use, I think is makes sense to keep an ample supply of ammo on-hand. If it’s purely an investment, I think you’d be much better served investing in liquid assets, such as TIPS, commodities, or ETFs, that provide a more direct hedge, or offer better potential returns.

 

[Hauki]

Well put @Danke Glock !

 

[petestapeworm]

A few years ago I moved all my retirement money into toilet paper. That’s all gone. So now I am building a new retirement fund out of eggs, I really feel lucky this time.

 

[Rocky7]

Well, my fight against inflation has always been controlling my desire to spend money.

Reloading has always been an opportunity to roll my own and put together what I desired. Last year I gifted my (2) Dillion 650’s with tool heads, and extensive reloading supplies to my son and my grandsons. They will probably never need, brass, primers, powder nor bullets for 9mm in the future.

I have kept 10 cases of New 9mm and around 3k of reloaded 44 mag. I expect this will exceed my inclination for the future.


I feel the biggest problem for shooters not collectors is where do you go in the future to shoot? Myself has 100 acres and tolerant neighbors. Good Luck.

 

[Big Bird]

Two words: Beanie Babies

 

[Russ in PA]

Seems impractical for the most part. If you had a place to park couple of pallet-loads of a common-caliber (purchased @ volume/discount) then I suppose you could do well when the next ammo-drought strikes.

 

[GuitarmanNick]

In the very near future, ammo may be the new currency. Many things going on today are making tangible assets more important than savings, IMO.
Precious metals have value and always will. If there is a total collapse of our economic system, ammunition will be in high demand making the assemblies of brass and lead precious in their own way.
I stocked up on factory ammo for my toys when it was a lot less expensive than today's pricing.
I was also fortunate to gather a nice inventory of reloading supplies before primer prices doubled and popular powders became less available.
Except for .22LR, reloads are what I shoot almost exclusively.
If you decide to "invest" in ammo, I would suggest stocking the most popular calibers.

 

[It'soncuz!]

For investment, you're probably better off investing in the ammo company's stock than actually buying a warehouse full of ammo and sitting on it.

 

[TacticalSpeed]

As an investment? No. If there's another shortage, the profit is not going to be high enough to warrant it vs other avenues

 

[mc1911]

I stocked up on primers years ago.

 

[Pat Riot]

Investment? No
Emergency stash? Yes

The only way I could see ammo being an investment is if society takes an extreme nose dive. Then you could trade for that harem you’ve always wanted.😎

But they’ll end up nagging you to the point of insanity so don’t trade away all of your ammo. 😉

 

[Planter21]

You'd never recoup your initial investment. Who, in their right mind, would ever sell any of their boolits?

 

[mj9mm]

It’s not very transportable, but has a value beyond words…. ….

 

[Stanley Flatt]

Ammo or guns, unless they are something really special, are generally not good as investments. They are more likely justifications to put down $. Plus they are not very liquid assets. As a financial decision, there are better.

 

[PeterG]

When the last ammo crisis hit I sold 100 round packs of minimags for $15.00 my cost was $7.00

Also sold some unneeded .45 acp for double what I paid.

Would I use it as a financial plan? No but being forward thinking can be profitable


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[fasteddie565]

Buy precious metals.

 

[papershoot]

Not my idea of a financial investment, more of a comsumable. An expense for hobbies and personal safety. I suppose the primers selling for triple what I paid could be sold, but I would rather keep shooting.

 

[davidt45]

When the price of ammo spiked a couple years back, I thought the same thing: Stock pile when prices come down.
But then realized, I'd have to buy and store a lot to make it worth it as an investment.

You could say: What if the financial system collapses and the dollar is worth very little or next to nothing? Then you can use the stockpile to sell off or barter with.
But I think if that time ever comes, it would be much more worthwhile to have stores of non-perishable food, water, medical, to trade with which would be much more universally desired and needed on a daily basis.

As other's have said here, I think it makes sense to have extra on hand to get through another shortage, or price increase. Perhaps enough to sell or trade for other caliber's as needed.

 

[ChuteTheMall]

How would you plan to liquidate a significant amout of ammo in the future?
Be one of those old guys renting a gunshow table?

Unless you stocked up several years ago, you're doing it wrong.