50 rounds a month

[Birddog 1]

About how many rounds at one session do you use in a weekend 22,center fire 100...150 more how many?

Birddog 1

[jnyork]

It depends. On a monthly basis I will use about 1000 rounds of .22 and maybe 200 rounds of centerfire. All fired offhand in rifles.

[Terry Murbach]

WE WON'T BOTHER TO GO SHOOTING UNLESS THERE IS TIME TO SHOOT UP 800 TO 1000 ROUNDS PER WEEKLY TO BI-WEEKLY SESSIONS UP IN THE HILLS. WE WILL USUALLY SHOOT AT LEAST A HALF DOZEN TO A DOZEN OR MORE CALIBERS IN AS MANY DIFFERENT FIREARMS.

[Mike D.]

I stopped just shooting for the heck of it. Too hard to find components and getting overly expensive to just blast away. These days, I'm lucky if I shoot 20-30 rds per month.

[AJMD429]

My goal is to shoot once a week with one or more of the kids, and usually it won't be that many rounds. Maybe 10-20 each of centerfire or 100-200 of rimfire. About once a month we'll shoot ten times that much, or more.

[Chuck 100 yd]

I never have been a high volume shooter. My thing is working up accuracy loads with the various calibers and mostly cast bullets. There is and endless array of variables to try and sort through. No need to shoot lots of rounds to find out if a combination is good or not.

If I think I cant go any farther with one gun/caliber combination, it`s time to get another rifle!!

50-60 rounds a session is normal for me. and that usually consists of several different loadings. I will bring along some of my best loads for that gun to use as a base line to keep my shooting honest. "was it me or the load" ???

[El Chivo]

I'm probably closer to 150 rounds per month. Right now I shoot 20 rounds per week at the indoor range and 40 more per month at the silhouette range. Plus some more for testing loads.

After about 50 rounds my eyes get tired and I can't see the target too well. So I've stopped shooting second and third rounds of silhouette on a given day.

[GoatGuy]

chuck 100 yd - you remind me of my best friend. He's purty particular about getting his rifles to shoot itty-bitty bullets into teeny tiny groups, and all the rigamarole he goes through to get there is really his cup of tea! After he gets there, has all his shots and the various loads, powders, primers and .0000000th's off the lands, etc. he tried recorded, targets filed away, everything as it just should be, he's satisfied. Then when he gets another rifle, maybe same caliber, maybe not, he'll start the bloody process all over again. Sheesh, and the stuff and time he goes through to "break-in" a barrel is really painful for me to behold, ...BORING! I swear he's going to wear out the barrel with all that cleaning between shots, etc.

Bet my buddy won't shoot more than 3-4 hundred rounds a year, and though he's not much fun to go plinkin' with as "just shooting for no real purpose" bores him to tears, he is one a heluva long-range, coyote killin' machine. You betcha!!

[madman4570]

This and the next two months will go through about 800rds@month of .223 centerfire handloads! Nothing much else!

[rjohns94]

60 shots with pellet rilfe (.20) each day.
100 arrows out of the longbow each day.

Once a month range time with centerfire rilfes, pistols, and rimfire stuff. 10-20 rounds centerfire out of all firearms, 50 or so rounds of .22 each session.

[Sixgun]

I keep a very detailed reloading log. I average between 7K-9K a year, 99.9% with cast bullets using leverguns and single action sixguns in "dash numbered" calibers with a few old double action "Smiths and Colts thrown in. So I guess thats about 600 a month with the majority of it on steel silhouette shooting along with practicing/experimenting/testing old guns/etc.

.22? Don't count 'em--probably several thou.-----------------------Sixgun

[awp101]

I don't get to go often so when I do I go through a couple hundred .22s, and 50-100 cf rounds of various flavors depending on how well the firearms are cooperating that day. If I bring something I really enjoy shooting it'll see a box of ammo (20-30rds for rifles, 50-100rds for handguns).

I stopped just shooting for the heck of it. Too hard to find components and getting overly expensive to just blast away.

Last month I was invited to a private shoot on private property and I brought my FAL to see if the bugs had been worked out. As I was loading the mag, my good friend asked me if I knew how to load it. "Of course I do!" He said "No you don't!" and as he started thumbing rounds into the mag he was saying "fifty cents, one dollar, one fifty, two dollars...". I got a kick out of it until I remembered it was a 20rd mag and I had three of them to fill for testing purposes.

[Dave]

Usually I will shoot no more than 20 rounds of 30-30 at a time. After that my eyes start to fatigue and I don't want to waste ammo. I am about out of my 170 gr ProHunters and can't find any more. Offhand at 50, kneeling at 100, sitting at 200.
I will then shoot maybe 60-80 rounds of 223 out of my AR since I am not looking for as much accuracy out of it even though it will do it. Some fast pairs at 25 and 50 yards from the ready position and then some kneeling at 100 and 200.
After that I like to shoot maybe 50-100 rounds for fun out of some kind of 22 pistol. The kids usually do the same. Then maybe 50 rounds of Mozambique drills at 7 yards with my 9mm before heading on home.
Sometimes I like to throw my tomahawk a little. The kids are still working on that and they need more work on their Rebel yells.
I like to keep my edge since shooting is a deteriorating skill. I go about three times a month. I don't shoot like I used to though. I used to shoot a lot.

[Lastmohecken]

Well, Ironically I shot a lot more when I lived in town during my twentys, and early thirtys, then I do normally now that I live in back on the farm, where I can shoot anytime I want to.

Now days, I basically just shoot a few rounds at a time, whenever I get the urge, a new gun, something needs killing. Today I decided to throw away an old computer, and since I have always heard that one needs to destroy the thing, or someone might be able to get some sensitive information off of it, I blew it away with a shotgun. It took several shots of number 6's, but it is definately destroyed now.

[Chuck 100 yd]

GoatGuy. Yup, sounds like me too. Well, shootin is shootin, no mater how or why, we love it!!

That`s why there are different flavors of ice cream.

[Modoc ED]

I haven't shot much centerfire in the last two months - maybe a 100-rounds but I've been shooting at least 1000 rounds of .22LR a week since mid-April shooting Belding Ground Squirrels. The season for them is winding down so I probably will stop shooting them by the end of this month. That comes out to around 3-cases and will leave me with about 8 more cases. If the ammo supply doesn't ease up, I'll cut my squirrel shooting in half or maybe even a quarter next year.

[86er]

If I am going on a hunt I personally practice with the rifle(s) I will use twice per week. I will only shoot from field positions and at a lifesized animal photo target or the 1/3 size adjusted by range to actual appearrance size. I shoot 3 shots from each position. If they are spot on I move to the next position. If everything works out, it will be sitting, kneeling, standing, prone for a total of 12 shots. If I can't get it right at one position, I will shoot it over again. I start at 100 yards for 3 weeks and go to 150 or 200 yards for the next 3 weeks. The last two weeks prior to the trip I will shoot one or two shots from ranges as close as 25 yards all the way back to the maximum range I might encounter. I am doing it now in preparation for late Sept blacktail deer trip. The # of rounds will vary but it usually ends up around 200 rounds in two months preparing for a trip using one rifle. This does not include the plinking and other shooting I might be doing with other rifles throughout the year. Before last year's Africa trip I fired over 1000 rounds in 2 months getting ready. It paid off when everything I shot there hit the ground dead with one shot.

[Buck Elliott]

Probably 400 - 500 rds of .22 rimfire (mostly WMR) and upwards of that in .45 Colt/.45-70/.223 (combined) per month. Not as much as I'd like, but as much as I can afford...

I don't fling a lot of lead at paper any more. Am & always have been a hunter...

[crow]

300 - 500 rounds out of the .22 as it is good cheap practice for form and technique. Maybe 100 rounds centrefire (50 rounds a fortnight) mainly working up loads and experimenting. Shooting for accuracy, chasing max. velocity and power are secondary. Full power loads now and again...just to rev the engine, so to speak.