About the ammo situation,
There have been a few comments by a couple of characters since the Big Bag O' Guns was retrieved that seemed to indicate they were talking about a HUGE amount of ammunition. If you think about it, as badly hit as Rick's home town was (So far gone the military were EXECUTING non-ambulatory patients? That's pretty conclusively indicative of the proverbial excrement having hit the fan some time ago.) it's quite possible that next to none of the other deputies from Rick & Shane's county survived. Even if they did, between the ones who didn't think of it, the ones who thought of it but decided not to risk it, and the ones who tried to make it to the station but either had to turn back or were killed en route, out of a comparatively small Sheriff's Department Rick could feasibly have been the ONLY ONE to make it to the station with the idea of stripping it bare of everything useful looter-style mindset.
If that proved to be the case, even an Andy Griffith/Mayberry-small Sheriff's Department would likely have several thousand rounds of each commonly used caliber. Why? Civil Service contracts. Buying in bulk of anything always drives the price-per-item down, so it makes even more sense for a small county Sheriff's Dept. to buy boxes of ammo in bulk than a larger/better-funded county.
Speculation aside, every time someone has picked the Big Bag O' Guns up off a flat surface, it's seemed like they're lifting something a lot heavier than your average carry-on sized luggage. While a goodly portion of that weight is no doubt the numerous guns packed into said bag, boxes of ammunition can be quite compact. Since Daryl's complaint to Rick when leaving the Vatos was about the guns Rick gave away and not ammunition given away, there's another piece of (admittedly thin) circumstancial evidence that they started out with a very large amount of ammo. Which makes sense if you think about the circumstances under which Rick packed the bag of guns & ammo. He was about to set off in search of his wife and son while traversing God-only-knows how much Walker-infested territory between him and his objective.
Rick can only feasibly use so many guns, but since he couldn't know how long it might take him to find Lori & Carl, and DEFINITELY couldn't know when he might have another opportunity to stock up on ammo (the condition of the hospital and the neighborhood streets would've been a pretty blatant clue that looting is a factor in what happened while he was still unconscious),....there's no reason to believe Rick wouldn't have just packing bricks of ammo into that bag until it was stuffed. I've consistently tried to find an angle where you can pause a frame on the digital cable and get a look at the gun-bag's interior, but to no avail.
I agree that popping off rounds like they have been is wasteful and reckless, but we can't know as viewers HOW wasteful and/or reckless their carefree use of ammo is without first knowing what kind of supply we're talking about.
Also agree that the "Walker Firing Squad" at the barn was a damned disgrace in terms of near-point-blank range torso shots by people who damn well know better. If you noticed, the worst offenders are easily T-Dog and Glenn (what a surprise, eh?)...Daryl seemed to be the only one with a shotgun firing judiciously. Glenn and T-Dog were as close to Spray-and-Pray as one can get with semiautomatics, and that's just sad. It doesn't take a marksman to hit something bowling-ball sized that's moving on a steady trajectory and slower than human walking speed at under 20 feet. I would've rather seen more near-misses slamming into the barn doors at zombie head-level than that barrage of torso-shots.
Thoughts?
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Originally Posted by MinionZombie
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