[lcpiper]

Ruthless, my little 250 man Company in Korea in the 80's burned up at least 10,000 a year alone of 5.56mm and probably another 4,000 in 7.62mm in the M60s.

First we had to zero, that was something like 9 rounds + for all 250 of us, ten rounds makes it an easy 2,500 just to zero the rifles. Then we loaded up the mags, basicly a perfect score was 40 hits out of 40 shots so in a perfect world that's 40 times 250 soldiers = 10,000 rounds plus the initial 2,500 for zeroing so that's actuall 12,500 rounds if there were no overages, do overs, miss-fires, whatever. But that's the basic numbers, he is the real important part.

You had to draw more ammo then you would need, and it comes in cases of 840 cartridges per Ammo Can. Let's do some math, 840 x Ammo Cans is 12,600 but like I said, that might be a little light, can't go out light and run out, so you draw 16 and you got 13,440 rounds of 5.56mm Ball ammo.

Now you shoot, it doesn't matter how much you use qualifying, you will shoot every single round, burn it all up, because trying to count and turn in excess ammo is never worth the hassle, so everyone just shoots it up.

So there you go, 250 soldiers go to the range to qualify annually and burn up close to 15,000 rounds a year.

Now let's divide the 15,000 into the 10,000 rounds for DHS you said ?

Or were you meaning 10,000 rounds per agent?

Actually, even then I can see it. Real shooters like our SF guys, they shoot all the time, they get so much ammo and shoot more then you would think. Special action guys really do add a lot to the ammo budget. i bet some of the BP guys do this too.


I think I'll just stop there and let you think more on it.