How Often?

[lizziedog1]

How often do you all shoot a gun? Weather it is one round at a varmint, one hundred rounds at clay targets, or one thousand at beer cans. Count centerfires, rimfires, shotguns and even airguns. I shoot on the average of three times a week. Mainly it is with rimfires.

 

[M2 Carbine]

Having a couple home ranges and being retired, I shoot a lot.
It's convenient to grab a handgun or 22 rifle and shoot in the back yard, sometimes a couple times a day.
Usually there's a couple guns in the shop waiting to be cleaned.

The setup is such that I also shoot a good bit of laser and laser/light in low light.

 

[jpruitt]

About twice a year. I like owning guns and being able to protect myself, and I know I need to practice, but it's expensive and I don't enjoy actually shooting all that much.

 

[Armored farmer]

I think I easily average once/wk. Black powder; trap club; hunting; plinking....and my latest passion... cap'n ball.

 

[AK103K]

At least once a week, but this time of year more like a couple of times a week. Being literally 2 minutes from the range, and being on winter lay off keeps the reloading press a little extra busy, and the weekly round count on the 500+/wk. side. Im actually on my way out there right now.

 

[DWC]

Plinking, practicing, or shooting supper. I shoot often.

 

[BK]

There's a big difference between once a month and hardley ever. I might only get to shoot once every six weeks in the winter, but in summer it is much more frequent. I just got accepted to a gun club that is 6 miles from my house and I reload on a progressive, so I imagine that I'll be shooting almost weekly soon. I've been waiting for this day to come for a long time.

 

[Omaha-BeenGlockin]

Plinking 3 or 4 times in the summer--couple rounds of sporting clays mixed in---hunting in the fall a few times---hunters sight-in--deer season----seems to be the pattern since my youngest was born.

Crappy weather in the winter--work and kids conspire to keep me from shooting much.

 

[wy child]

at least once a week weather permitting

 

[RstyShcklfrd]

I try to go twice a month. Shooting my pistol and shotgun mainly. However, with school I have trouble finding the time and/or money. I wish I could go more though

 

[ryanrichmond]

not as often as I'd like. Once a month, some months twice, a buddy and I go to an outdoor range an hour and a half away. 150 yards and no one is ever there so it's quite fun. We usually make a day out of it.

 

[USAF_Vet]

I don't get to shoot as much as I'd like. 50-60 hour work weeks are a serious time killer. Weather in the winter keeps me more or less indoors. Spring: Turkey hunting. Summer: I'll hit the range as often as I can afford the ammo, when I'm not working. Fall: small game, fall turkey and deer hunting. Plinking year round. all in all, maybe once a month, at best.

 

[speaksoftly]

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[Chris Rhines]

I try for 8 hours per week of range time, not counting matches. I also dryfire quite a bit.

In 'With Winning in Mind,' Lanny Bassham recommended spending between 25 and 30 hours per week in training for optimal improvement. I'm not quite there...

 

[mcdonl]

I put down once a week, but that takes into account a couple trips a month during the Maine winters but several trips a week in the summer time.

 

[Fmjblack]

When I lived in the country and could shoot in my yard and was only a few miles from a 1,000 yard private range that I was a member of, I shot almost daily. Now that I live in city limits and an hour from that same range, I shoot on average once every 2-3 weeks.

 

[Lazyshooter]

I have a range on the farm so I shoot several times a week. I used to shoot everyday but I have school three days a week so that has reduced the amount I shoot in a giving week. But I still shoot too much. Practice makes perfect.

 

[CraigC]

Near about every day. Sometimes I just walk outside and fire off a few rounds. Sometimes I just take a potshot at a crow out the window. At least once a week I burn through at least a couple hundred rounds of .22LR and 50-100rds of centerfire. It's still not enough. Gotta .38Spl conversion kit coming for my Dillon 650 and plan on doing A LOT of shooting with my USFA Rodeo II in the coming months.

 

[XM855]

If you count dry firing then nearly every day...otherwise I try to make it once a month, money and time permitting.

 

[MostlySurly]

EVery Day

... in the Winter, anyway.
Too cold in the shop, nothing growing in the yard.
Airguns in the garage range every night.
It's my wind-down time from work.

 

[Tim the student]

I have a lot more time to shoot in the warmer months. My goal is to shoot once a week. In reality, I average about once every 10 days or so.

In the winter, about once a month.

Year round, I practice in my basement with an air rifle about once a week.

 

[davidfletcher]

I shoot every day now that I am out of work. In one weeks time I shoot 100 rounds of 22ammo, 10-75 rounds of shotgun ammo, 1-5 rounds of 257 Weatherby, and some 35 whelen some times.

 

[hey_poolboy]

Sadly only about once a week right now. Between work, side jobs, and kids activities I don't have lots of time. As the weather gets nicer and the days longer I will shoot more. Usually about 100 rounds of .45ACP per trip. I shoot the .22 occasionally as well. Use to shoot more when I lived way outside of town. I miss being able to shoot off of the porch. (legally)

 

[Furncliff]

I'm fortunate in having a little slice of BLM land 10 minutes away. When I can get up the road I shoot twice a week. But the snow is elk belly deep right now, so it'll be a while.

 

[Fanky]

I usually go out every other week with one of my friends that works at the gun shop I frequent. We take turns driving, and usually shoot common calibers to split the cost of ammo that we don't reload.