Here about a month ago, I purchased two thousand .45 bullets for reloading.  (Definition for the uninitiated.  When I say bullets, that's exactly what I mean.  The bullet part.  The primers, cases, and powder I already had.)  I build my own, because it's almost 50% cheaper than buying them, and I get better performance for less money.

That's really not that many.  I average shooting probably 75 rounds a week in that caliber, so it's a 6 month supply, give or take.

But when I get irritated and depressed about the State of the Union and the World in general, I reload more ammo.  The fact that I'll be out of .45 bullets tonight or tomorrow probably says a lot about my state of mind.  I've also rolled up almost 500 rounds of various rifle calibers over that period.  And I ordered 2000 more 9mm bullets on Friday.  They won't survive outside of brass casings through August.

Spooky.

I only loaded 1500 rounds of rifle ammo and a thousand of pistol after 9-11 before I got calmed back down and decided I had enough in stock.  That's got to say something on how brown my outlook on the immediate future is getting, I suppose.

Oh, well.  If I don't need it for anything else, it's a self-correcting problem at the shooting range.