Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game How do you carry extra ammo?

Yep. I do what I have to so's I get invited back next year!


Can't believe it. I give the guy a stock pack and he complains about loosing a round or two.

Bob

I used to carry them in my jacket pocket. Too may times , when it warmed up I left the jacket and ammo behind. I now kinda like the little stock pack.with loops inside. Also caries a bore snake and lense cloth..

Now days I carry ammo in a folding synthetic cartridge carrier that slips easily into a pocket. If there is a photo op involved I bring out the leather cartridge carrier to enhance the image of a big game hunter.

Well, the majority of my rifles[except for my 45-70 GG] are single shots, and I use a butt cuff on the stock, or as ole ingwe calls it, a "bubba buddy".....




squirrels with my H&R Sportster.





deer with my CVA Scout 44 mag.





hogs with my guide gun





big stuff with my Ruger no. 1 375 H&H mag.


maddog

I hope you own stock in Bubba Buddy....so to speak.....

You obviously don't hunt where gun shots can be considered dinner bells.

wood or plastic....


maddog

Try it. You'll like it.

Got a couple of those Lawrence leather cartridge boxes,used them for many years. Allways took my ammo out of them at the end of the season and put it back in the 50 rd plastic case with the rest of the lot and load data tag. Forgot some 243 loads one year, by next antelope season they all turned green with verdigris(sic)? Nope I don't use them anymore. just stick the shells in a Federal 10 rd holder out of their factory boxes and stick it in my pocket, noiseless and handy. Magnum Man

I have a few of those MTM ammo wallets that hold less than a dozen rounds. The 30-06 one holds 9.



I then carry that in my vest pocket. They're thin, flat, waterproof and don't turn the ammo green. Before this I used to put ammo on my stock or sling, but I'd always finish out the season with one or two rounds unaccounted for. These MTM wallets fixed that.

Bubba Buddy for the win........

I finally picked up a Bubba Buddy a couple years ago. Pretty slick. I do have to pay attention to the rounds in it, but it is never full. 7 or 8, tops. 5 in the rifle. A 20 rd plastic case somewhere, either in the truck or in my pack. You guys that carry only what's in your gun have never been to a rodeo, apparently, or hunted more than one species at a time. Or hunted where there can be and are big predators.

Ammo is like money or sex. You have to have a whole hell of a lot of it to have too much.

Depending on what rifle I'm using, my 30-06 I will have 3 in the belly and an extra 8 in a carrier located in my pack.

Usually four in the rifle, and then four held together with an elastic hair tie in my front pocket.

Same here. Pat has some great stuff!

This.

I do a sleeve with loops on the buttstock sometimes.

Just back from a few days hunt where I carried four extra rounds in a nylon knife sheath. Very good!

FWIW, we were hunting where we sort out white tails from between grizzlies, black bears and cougars -- and I prefer three rounds in the rifle. That is partly because it feeds smoother on the first round with less spring pressure than when I put in a max of four that the magazine holds.

Normally I have two rifles and a 10-round ammo wallet for each. When I leave the truck I grab a rifle and the appropriate wallet.

I've got a couple of the leather cartridge holders my wife got for me so I pretty much have to use them.

One has .250 ammo in it and the other has .300 Savage. They get carried in the pack depending on the rifle carried that day.


If I'm using the Marlin .41 magnum I don't carry extras besides whats in the rifle, It holds plenty.