[Stay Low]

Sunday, went to our range and shot (at, at least) 300 clay targets....a personal record by far for me and one of the best days at the range I can remember in a while. How about yall? What kinda of clay targets and how many do you normally shoot? This is not typical of my range days. Just had the time and awesome weather that day.

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Currently, I'm kinda taking a break;recovering and time restraints with school and life stuff...but...
Record?...
Somewhere over 600 rds in a day. Shot multiple rds with all four gauges. Then hit the Sporting clays and 5 stand. Low 5 had been giving me a fit, 5 stand had been changed, as was the Sporting Clay course. I had been down with double knee surgery, I wasn't allowed to drive at the time, but nothing said about NOT shooting. My Dr. toted me and I shot some with him and another Dr. whom was partners with my ortho surgeon. I took it easy...scared myself a few times ( knees popping making noises and feeling weird)...but just normal healing. Had my butt chewed out royal by a wife at the time, tired sore puppy that night.

I went and shot 300 rds the next day, wife went out of town , and I needed to work out the soreness. For a good while my life, well been accused of sleeping with shotguns and living at the ranges( goes for firearms in general focus on shotty's and handguns)...Still have the guns, the drive, the memories--not the wife...priorities, gotta have them. :D

Not unusal to mount and dryfire a min of 100 reps as day...been known to do a 1k. "normal" prolly 200 a day. Live fire min 125 rds, average 250 rds.

I'll get back into it...I do handguns the same way, so today I've done 100 reps with a shotgun and 100 reps with a 1911.

Yea someday, I need to get back into rifles, only so many hours in a day though, but I did the same deal with them as a kid...

" I've always been crazy, but it keeps me from going insane"

[PJR]

On a typical Sunday I might shoot 200 to 250 targets depending on the day. Our club has all the games so I will shoot sporting and then some five stand or skeet or trap. It's very easy to go through a flat of shells.

I've never accounted for my personal high but it would have to be at the clay target weekend a few of us hold at a small club each year. We shoot 1,000 rounds over two and a half days with the first full day accounting for about 500. We also shoot some games at the end of the day which adds to the total. With a good fitting gun, light target loads and a padded vest it's a manageable total but by the end of the weekend everyone is shot out. Often it's not the recoil that gets to you but lifting an 8.5lb gun up to your shoulder several hundred times in a single day.

Paul

[TrapperReady]

It's not uncommon for me to shoot 250-300 shells in an afternoon. I've done roughly double that on a couple of occasions. What frequently gets those numbers up is when my wife and I shoot with some good friends. We'll shoot wobble trap as two teams, with one shooter "batting cleanup". After a little while, we get pretty loose and will start shooting not just the clay, but then the largest chunk that flies off. It's very fast-paced and tons of fun.

Recently (last 6 months or so), I've dropped somewhat in volume, and stay in the 125-200 range per session. I'll often just shoot one or two rounds of sporting clays, and then a few sessions of 5-stand.

[kudu]

Iv'e shot at 500 a day numerous times when I practiced for registered skeet tournaments. Shot 199 in a row once and missed my 200th bird, :banghead: :cuss: :fire: and cost me a couple hundred bucks in winnings and high over all in the state championship shoot.

[Dave McCracken]

250-300 birds between dawn and dusk.

More typically, 100 rounds at trap and 100 at skeet each week.

NOTE:

This is NOT good for tyros, newbies and other beginners. Fatigue causes form glitches, and then confidence goes to heck and things start to hurt.

For a brand new shooter, I suggest 25-50 rounds per session. After a few sessions,add a box. After that becomes easier, add another.

Most folks can shoot 100 rounds in 25 round sessions. Take it slow, and walk well before attempting to run...

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kudo, I can relate.

I always, always always "shoot 2". I never never never have the safety* on. Raining, and we gained permission to have a 3 man squad , some shooters dropped out due to weather, we 3 were known to shoot a round pretty quick. I dropped the first bird, oh I got the safety off...but my mindset was rattled...missed !!

By gawd I powdered the next 199 that day. I mean nothing but dust and mist...tad angry I was.

* acceptable to have safety off, many had them removed from guns. 4 rules always apply, action open, muzzle safe direction, fingers off triggers.

[HSMITH]

I have only shot 400 in one day, but I have never shot more than 4-5 hours. At that pace it feels like a footrace more than shooting when you are done.