The boxes probably held precious ammunition with which the fort would be defended.

What purpose might he have for conserving this precious ammunition?

But, like any good officer, he still took a moment to lash into Nabeh for wasting their precious ammunition.

Their attack was turned back with heavy losses on both sides and with a dismayingly large expenditure of precious ammunition.

He'd lost two pilots in the Huey that went down plus two thousand rounds of precious ammunition.

Shooting that way instead of lying down on the trigger not only conserved precious ammunition, but kept the gun's barrel from overheating.

The idea appealed to him, in fact, except that it would be a waste of precious ammunition, and of time that he couldn't regain.

On February 26, Travis ordered the artillery to stop returning fire so as to conserve precious ammunition.

No warming bursts now and waste of precious ammunition.

He had wasted enough precious ammunition on this old thief who continued to live and plague his house.