How accurate is your 'fired rounds' count?

[pockets]

Over the past 5 decades I've ceased to care much.
90% of what I buy and shoot are pre-owned guns anyway. I may keep a general count on a new-to-me acquisition, as a functionality guide.
I do keep a close count on a 'new' carry gun. But after it has proven reliable with it's carry ammo, I stop counting.

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[davidalyn]

I just shoot and leave the counting to others.

 

[Peter M. Eick]

I do it very accurately by spreadsheet and by box of ammo. It is a fairly simple system and it allows me to say precisely how many rounds I have fired. I also track things like spring changes, part changes, cleaning etc.

 

[texas2wheeler]

When I first purchased my first .357 I kept up with it by the boxes full of empty cases because I knew I was going to start reloading.

When I started reloading for a while I could keep up with it by either the receipts or the empty primer boxes, until I moved and didn't have the space to keep the empty primer boxes. I started reloading for a friend and acquired other .38 / .357s and then I could only keep track of how many reloads.

Later when I got my first .308 I kept up with my shots by the empty plastic .308 bullet boxes + 80 (The 4 boxes of factory ammo purchased), then I started being Mr. Nice guy and loaded up some of my bullets for some friends so the count I have now is off by somewhere between 100 and 200 rounds since I never kept up with how many rounds I reloaded for others. I do have an accurate count as to how many shells I have reloaded though not very useful unless Lee Precisions sends me a survey and wants to know....

The only Log type of thing I've ever managed to keep up with have been the little notebooks I've kept in all my vehicles since the first one where I log the Date/mileage / trip reading/gallons/cost of every fillup. Also use the same notebook to log oil changes, Tire / Battery purchases.

Until sometime in the future should I have the luxury of getting something in .22-250 or other caliber that is known to have a somewhat limited shot life then I might come up with a system for counting rounds through a firearm.

I think I can still tell you how many 25 pound bags of shot I've loaded for my 12 gauge shotguns since I was in highschool believe I still have all those neat cloth bags. I ran across 9 of them the other night, and have another stash in an old trunk. But that system won' work for long - recently I noticed that lots of places have downsized to 10 pound bags.

 

[brickeyee]

Depends on the gun.

The Panda action varmint gun count is exact.

The 1911s are a little less exact, except ht one I have only one caliber of.

The .38 super comp is exact, rounds loaded - live rounds remaining of .38 super.

The .45 ACPs are less exact since their are multiple guns.

 

[ku4hx]

Nothing scientific or especially anal, I just do a quick count of my fired empties when I throw them into the brass cleaner. Been doing that for some thirty years or so and my counting has always proven to be pretty good.

In the early '80s I started keeping the data in the database part of AppleWorks on an Apple IIe. Through several changes and upgrades I now keep the data in an Excel 2010 file.

I'd say my fired round count differs from actual fired rounds by a number too small to try and calculate. I do validate against number of primers used and since my fired factory round count consists solely of replenished self defense fodder every five years their totals are insignificant.

 

[167]

I keep a count accurate to the round for the purpose of tracking my shooting skill and efficiency of training.

If I were only tracking rounds for spring replacements, etc. I would just keep it accurate to 200 rounds or so.

 

[Bobo]

I keep track but I forgot on one range visit, so I guessed. So far (about 6 years of shooting) the numbers have been kinda meaningless, I do it -just cuz I tend to be engineerish.

Bobo