[bratch]

What do you use your rifle for the most.

[nhhillbilly]

LE training.

[rbernie]

I dunno how to answer the poll, since I shoot at least 100 rounds at the range for every round that I shoot in the field while hunting. But I'm at the range to get better at shooting in the field.

[Art Eatman]

:)

My primary purpose is hunting.

My primary usage is plinking.

I've been doing it long enough that the skill-thing is built in to my shooting. So, it mostly winds up as, "Shootin' is fun!"

Art

[theCZ]

With pistols, I shoot the most in training for IPSC competitions, same goes for shotguns and skeet/trap. But now with rifles I spend my time developing loads for accuracy at the range, figuring out drop at range, and then get out and shoot a lot of ground squirrels.

[Smoke]

Which one? :confused:

Smoke

[Greg L]

Is it plinking if you are trying to hit a small piece of paper out at 300 yards? :scrutiny:

The vast majority of my actual shooting time is on the range plinking (either at small pieces of paper or chasing a coke can around the field ;) ). However the major use of my rifles is just to provide ballast to keep the safe from tipping over :( (IOW I need to get out more :D ).

[mountainclmbr]

There was no choice for "rifles and ammo needed to keep the house from blowing away in the wind".

[Black Snowman]

Making holes in paper and as an excuse to experiment with various reloads. I don't really count that as Plinking, althougt it's closest, so I picked Other.

[tc300mag1]

should have allowed us to pick more than one i voted big game hunting but i also do a lot of plinking

[bratch]

How do you edit a poll?

[squirrelsniper]

Overall, my rifles' main "purpose" is big game, predator, and small game hunting.

The main "use" they see is target shooting, just for fun, practice, and experimentation.

[Ash]

I voted big game, but that isn't really true. Our big game are White Tails and they are really just medium game. Don't hunt moose or elephant.

Ash

[dakotasin]

rbernie summed up my uses...

i do a lot of prairie doggin', targets, and experimentation just so i can be a more efficient hunter.

so, for primary usage it is target shooting and varminting.
primary purpose for the usage is to hunt mule deer, whitetail deer, antelope, and elk.

[El Rojo]

What a biased poll. I guess I will vote plinking even though varminting is a close second and I do all of the rest.

[bratch]

El Rojo:

Please explain the bias so I can improve future polls.

[El Rojo]

Sorry I was sort of kidding because as many others have commented, it is hard to pin down that "one" major shooting catagory. Maybe bias wasn't the right word.

[Okiecruffler]

Mostly I use my rifles to look at. Have several that haven't been fired in years.

[confinedbythecurtain]

protect against pumpkins, watermelons, bowling pins and cinder blocks. ;)

[Fatelvis]

Informal target shooting

[standingbear]

originally,each rifle had a specific use.my varmiter for varmiting,my marlins for squirrel hunting and the bigger guns for just collecting and shooting when I ran low on ballistic ammo for my varmiter.shotguns..fun for those times when there would be 3 or 4 groundhogs out, eating behind a farm building.

pretty much everything now is all varmiting or plinking(when I miss its plinking :D ) where I can drive back and get out and sit till the groundhogs start peeking out.