3 or 4 but I hunt my own property so im close to home and i'm a meat hunter last time I used all 4 my magazine disappeared for a couple years

Four in the magazine four in pockets one each. Was spring bear spot an stalk in Montana spent all morning looking for bears. About noon decided to set under a tree and eat lunch, couple of pine squirrels took exception to my choice of dining room. Took a perch about 10’ above me and proceeded to cuss me out after about fifteen minutes I had all could put up with and decided to teach them a lesson, so I shot the branch out from under them.
Well I thought, that is it for bear hunting so I decided to do a little off hand target practice. Shot three pieces of white quartz on the hillside and reloaded the magazine shot three more all that were good targets. Set there a spell enjoying the day. Got back on the two track to the truck and hadn’t walked three hundred yards when a bear galloped across the two track he stopped about 75 yards up the hill. Looked to be mature and no cubs around so I shot him, he rolled down the hill into some really tall weeds. I took the spent case out of the action and realized I was OUT OF AMMO! After throwing ROCKS where he stopped rolling I figured it was OK to walk up to him. He made a nice rug and squared just under five feet. I still carry four rounds in the magazine and four in my pockets. But I limit my target practice to the range!

.270 holds 5 so that's what I carry. As a kid my dad always said he could tell where I hunted because he's just follow all the shells I dropped along the way. Now I never carry spares because I park, walk in, hunt, and walk out. Only shot empty once and that's because I got into a whole mess of hogs at one time.

Not real sure... However many .310 balls will fit in the little Tic-Tac box in my shooting bag.

I'm allowed 25 squirrels a day here but doubt I would want to skin that many. Lol

Mike

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Some of my winter trips are as far as 150 snow machine miles from home. Caribou, wolves, wolverine, lynx, fox all available. 6-8 10 round mags for the 223. Limits are 25 for ptarmigan and no limit for snowshoe hares. So 12-15 mags for the .22 mag. Fall expeditions by ATV have moose, caribou and grizzly bears on the menu. Again up to 150 miles from home. So 40 rounds for 30-06 or .338.

Whatever the gun holds plus a handful (say 3-5) of rounds for big game if I'm only planning on being out for the day. If I'm spending multiple nights out of a backpack I might take a few more but probably not more than 10. Even on a backcountry drop camp I doubt I'd take more than a box. I would take a sidearm and some appropriate ammunition in that situation though.

For deer, my BLR hold 5+1. Moose hunting....I have a full box of 20. ( hoping it doesn’t come to that ). Squirrels with the 10/22....a big handful of .22 LRs.

I use no rounds, I hunt like a real man. Spear from the trees that are my brothers and sisters. Actually it all depends, sometimes I see a blade of grass lol.

One in chamber, 4 in mag, and a full box in my pack...so 25.
If I’m hunting with an AR a full mag and a full box.
If my bow, as many as the quiver will hold...ran out before from shooting pigs.
For dove or ducks, a couple cases.
Paranoid? I prefer Prepared!

5

I once could only scrounge up 5 at home before I left for our cabin on the rifle opener. Opening morning I encountered the biggest buck I have ever saw in Northern Michigan and shot 5 times at him. Severe underestimation of the range was the culprit of the misses. He had no idea I was ever there even though I shot at him 5 times over a 5 minute span. Let me tell you it sucks watching the biggest buck of your life close in to 150 yards at 9 am opening morning with his antlers and hide shining as the sun burns the dew off of him and you have no more bullets to shoot him! It was not all bad though as I shot a nice buck that was wider than him but not as tall tined the next week in the same spot. I now bring about 20.

Trapping I always have at least 50 22s.

I will tell a story if anyone wishes to hear it about rounds carried. Just one has to reply.....

Let's hear it

Dang it adam lol. Ok. When I was 10 and squirrel hunting with the old man our conversation leaded me to ask him how it was hunting with his old man, my Grandpa. And I'm going with the short version. He never hunted with him. We were in a huge stand of Hickory's in the early season before the leaves came off. Anyway he said I think we should talk about something else and as a kid I said no, how was it. He was born and raised in WV, around Sutton in the early 40's and is gone now. He said to me when I was your age my Dad was a coal miner and was leaving for work when he woke me in my bed. He said to me, boy, here are 4 shells for the family .22 rifle which was a Winchester. You have 4 shells, you are to get 4 squirrels or don't come home. The pressure that was put on him transferred to the day of our conversation. First time I seen what was a rattleless man become rattled. I have never since carried only a few rounds. Same reason my Mama had over 20 coats when she passed over last year. I will add a disclaimer because he was my step Dad who raised me since I was a shaver, Both my real parents and all my kin are from SE Kentucky. Moral of the story, put a few extry in your pocket lol!

Four in mag of bolt rifle and one in each of two pockets so they will not clink together.

If just out for a walk at my place in deer season any amount over zero is fine. When traveling to hunt, as many as a full box is desired.

A friend and I went to another friends place to harvest a couple of antlerless deer. I had a .270 he had an .06. He accidentally only brought one round. Told him to make it count. Put a short push on for him. He waited for the rite shot and we left with our tags filled in under an hour.

Catch, all I can say is....Wow that's some story. That's sad and way too much pressure for a young boy.

I cut it close on one memorable hunt. I was running low on ammo, but I figured I only needed what I had. Problem was that I didn't have as many slugs as I thought. I spotted a doe at 100 yards with less than 30 minutes of legal light left. I never shot one that far with a slug, so I went for it. I shot low, made an adjustment on the holdover and dumped it. I went out in the field to recover it, figuring the shot would run every deer around away. As I got to the doe, here comes a monster of a buck, moseying straight my way. I got down on one knee and waited until he got to about 75 yards and piled him up. Biggest deer of my life. I racked the shotgun just in case he got back up. No more bullets.
So I will change my number to 3 bullets. You only need three bullets.

5,248, I'm a terrible shot.