Thread: How many rounds do you generally take when you go hunting?

When talking to some hunters, they might only take 5 rounds and say, "If I need more, I'm doing something wrong", while others I know would take 50 or so rounds and say, "I'm doing weight training" Just wondering what everyone here takes with them for their respective rifle.

4 in the mag, 4 spare in the pac

one day hunt 10 -12 -- 2-3 day campout will take 20 but 8-10 left in camp only 10 carried out for the day - thats for deer

7-8 for weekend hunt

3 in the mag 10 in my day bag...

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Day hunt, 5 in the mag and a 7rnd ammo sleeve in my bum bag.
Multi day hunt, a box of 20

If its deer usually take 5 and bring five home

8 or 10 depending on which ammo holder I have with me

Four in the mag, plus 1 spare.

It's easy to have a big stuff up and suddenly be out of ammo. I've been on hunts where 5 wasn't enough for the day after a big stuff up and it was on to the knife. Day hunt for me is now generally about 10.

I've had similar on multi day hunts where one good stuff up led to me wishing I brought more ammo. Depends on the trips purpose but maybe 15 - 20 for multi day.

It really depends on what your plans are.

Modern tech is pretty good for emergencies these days but it's always handy to have enough ammo on hand to fire the distress signal of three evenly spaced shots.. plus a repeat or two. Although I wonder how many people would register what that means these days.

During some time in cadets we learnt about it but that was the first time. From memory we went over it on the firearm saftey course.

I got a 308.
So 1.

Originally Posted by stagstalker

It's easy to have a big stuff up and suddenly be out of ammo. I've been on hunts where 5 wasn't enough for the day after a big stuff up and it was on to the knife. Day hunt for me is now generally about 10.

I've had similar on multi day hunts where one good stuff up led to me wishing I brought more ammo. Depends on the trips purpose but maybe 15 - 20 for multi day.

It really depends on what your plans are.

Modern tech is pretty good for emergencies these days but it's always handy to have enough ammo on hand to fire the distress signal of three evenly spaced shots.. plus a repeat or two. Although I wonder how many people would register what that means these days.

Three 5 seconds apart repeated after 10 minutes is what I remember. It should still be mentioned today I reckon.

Day hunt 6, multi day trip 15-20

I took 75rds of 308 up the hill the other day to blast some roos.

Unfortunately came back with most of it this time around, because there were bugger all about.