Old habit of mine, every time go into a store that has .22LR, I would pick up a brick or a bulk pack box if I remembered to do so. I still have a few bricks of .22LR I got from the old Yard Birds/SeaMart in Olympia when it was $5/brick. I think I have about 6,000 rounds. The boys and I can easily shoot through a brick in an afternoon.

Some of us don't hoard, we just pick up ammo as we go along so that we don't have to deal with the histeria. Find a good buy, stock up, and have it when you need it. With the exception of .300 Win Mag, .380 and .30-30, I have at least 500 rounds or components for that much for every firearm I own.

I have never had ammunition, primers, or powder go bad on me.