Friend wants to buy a pistol, asks "how much ammo do you keep?"

Depends on type of training.

I do a lot of dry fire, and the only thing you can't practice doing that is accuracy/precision and recoil management. - So when I do go to the range, I don't blast through a ton of ammo anyways. More ammo is always better, and I typically don't buy a weapon if I can't afford to buy another 1k rounds to go with it.

As most of us know, buying a weapon is the easiest part...buying stuff to make the weapon effective is much more difficult. Everyone wants a new gun, not everyone wants to spend the money on the stuff they actually need for it.
 
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I've been 'coaching' a friend through her first pistol purchase and aside from the usual pounding of safety rules I told her that if she can't afford to buy 1k rounds of ammo and the pistol she should buy the ammo first so when she gets the pistol she can start going to the range right away. She said I was crazy but she did it and 5 months after buying that pistol she's complaining that she's almost out of ammo. "Why didn't you tell me 1k rounds is only 20 boxes?! I shoot 2 or 3 boxes every time I go! WTH?!"
 
davesc2 said:
I've been 'coaching' a friend through her first pistol purchase and aside from the usual pounding of safety rules I told her that if she can't afford to buy 1k rounds of ammo and the pistol she should buy the ammo first so when she gets the pistol she can start going to the range right away. She said I was crazy but she did it and 5 months after buying that pistol she's complaining that she's almost out of ammo. "Why didn't you tell me 1k rounds is only 20 boxes?! I shoot 2 or 3 boxes every time I go! WTH?!"
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Maybe send her a link to some snap caps and discuss dry fire?
 
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