Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting How many bullets do you carry?

4 in the gun. 4 on the sling.

4 in the rifle and 7 in one of those neoprene slip over deals that fits over the buttstock. And 1 extra round in my right front pocket. So a total of 12.

Bullets? None extra, usually other than the nine I have in the cartridges I carry...

2.....just in case I loose the first one

I fill the magazine, and then have one of those black elastic stock carriers things in my day pack with 8-9 in it. Seems like a shell ends up in my chest pocket once in a while also.

4 in the magazine, 9 in a butt buddy, a lot in the truck.

Not an elk hunter but for deer usually 4-5. I guess it's from years of shooting shotguns but I generally load 3 rds. at a time. That is unless I'm shooting my #1. Never been an issue.

I box of 20 with 5 in the magazine and 1 in the chamber.

I hunt with a Tikka. I carry 3 in the mag and 5 in a 5 round spare mag just in case I lose a mag in the steep and rough. Have never needed the spare

Trystan

^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^

Plus, I have those black elastic "bullet bands" on most of my rifles with another 8 or 9 cartridges, so in total, around 20 in total.

A butt buddy, huh?

Naw, too easy.

Three or four in my rifle and nine in the pack..

DD is usually spot on. I never knew he had a butt buddy though... What in the hell is this world coming too???

I guess it all depends on the rifle:

338wm: 4+1 (5 rounds in rifle), 6 in hunting vest, 1 in shirt pocket= 12 rounds total

30-06: 6+1 (7 rounds) or sometimes just 6 in rifle, 6 in vest, 1 in right side shirt pocket: Lucky 13

New Tikka T3 superlite 7mm rem mag: 3+1 in rifle, 6 in vest and 1 in right side shirt pocket: 11 total

I carry a full magazine with a couple extra in a front shirt pocket. I usually have another 10 somewhere depending what gear I am using. As another posted, I have never wished that I had less with me. It does no good back at camp.

Whatever the magazine holds, 3 in a magnum, 4 in a Kimber, 5 non-magnums in a Winchester. 5 in a leather wallet on my pack's hip belt. 5 more magnums in a plastic Federal holder in a hip-belt pocket, 8 more if non-magnum in a plastic Federal holder (saved from the old 24rd value-packs) in the hip-belt pocket. Typically have a nearly full 50rd ammo box in the truck for each chambering I have on any given trip.

20 for my 30-06 and 6 for the .357. I store the 30-06 in a variety of places though so if I set my pack down, lose some, or some other crazy thing happens I will always have 5 in the gun, 5 in my pocket and 6 .357 on my hip. I would rather not shoot my elk only to then be mauled by a bear. Besides I'm young so the weight isn't a huge deal.

Full compliment in the gun and 10 backups in a plastic federal holder in my pocket.

12

Usually 4 in the gun, 8 in my pants pocket and whatever is left of a 50 box in the truck but seldom less than 20. That changes on culls; with the numbers being whatever the gun holds, all I can carry and everything I have loaded at that location at the moment in the truck.