I put down about 500 rounds a weekend. 250 for pistol, 250 for rifle.
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I put down about 500 rounds a weekend. 250 for pistol, 250 for rifle.
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I am starting to consider my M4s to be figments of my imagination. I don't even get to see them, much less shoot them. Look forward to wasting about 1000 rounds this upcoming leave, though.
In the tradition I come from no one attends classes. You read, do, ask, listen, do, read some more, do some more and so on. I spend hours and hours every year helping people and consume hours of other people's time. I want to learn the finer points of Bench Rest soon so I can test rifles and loads more effectively. There are some folks on my range who are very good at it and I'm picking their brains. People master their discipline by this method. I'm not averse to a class, I just haven't given it much thought.
How much do I shoot? That varies a lot depending on what I'm doing. I shoot a lot of 22LR now, a good 10K a year and maybe 4K of 556, 2K of 308, 5K of pistol, a thousand 30-06, several hundred 375, 458, etc. When I was doing more big bore I shot a lot less. You don't shoot a big bore rifle a hundred or two hundred times a week. A couple of hundred time a year of a particular big bore rifle would be a lot. I've burned out a couple of 300 magnum barrels over the years, that's a lot of shooting for that kind of rifle. I wore out a Ruger Super Blackhawk. Takes a lot of rounds to do that.
Last edited by Suwannee Tim; 12-25-10 at 08:36.
10,000 + per year carbine
15,000 + per year pistol
I hear you. The bench rest / precision folks (which I have competed for many years) often don't do any tactical shooting at all and many are dead set in that type of shooting. Most would be perfectly happy shooting 20 to 30 rounds in an hour precisely, where the majority of us would be happy going through 200-300 rounds in the same time frame where a less precise, but effective level of precision is good to go.
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I still consider myself to be a precision/long range rifle guy. Since I put a lot of work into loading my own .308, I don't really get into sending a ton of lead down range. I get more satisfaction from tiny groups, and first shot hits at uknown ranges. However, since I've acquired some of my carbines, I'm shooting somewhere around 1500 centerfire rounds a year.
Last edited by tuck; 12-25-10 at 12:38.
This year 12,000 rounds of .223 and about 8000 rounds of 9mm. I Did 4 rifle class this year, Magpul, Pat Rogers, Larry Vickers and a Mark Graham class.
Rougly 15,000-20,000 rounds a year. Mainly all 9mm. 45ACP and 5.56 probably take 2nd place. Then I'll sprinkle some 357, .40, 308 and 10mm too. I have to say that I am a little surprised at how little most people shoot. This makes me even more ashamed since I truly suck at shooting and expend more rounds than many on this board. It's not like I go and just make noise downrange either. I do take many great classes from reputable training. I just don't have much aptitude for shooting.![]()
Last edited by FChen17213; 12-25-10 at 16:18.
I usually shoot around 3-4000 rounds of pistol in a year between competition and practice. I just started in the carbine arena and I've taken a couple classes so that puts me in the 1600-2300 range for the year. Thats mostly Wolf and Gunshow Reloads. I just bought a case of .223 bullets to reload myself this year so hopefully that number will grow![]()
Logbooks say I've put 8400 rounds through two carbines, on my own dime. Frankly, I'd thought it to be less than that, add last year was around 12k.
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