How many guns do you take to the range?

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On average, how many guns do you take to the range? How do you decide which ones to bring with you?

I currently take about 10 guns to shoot and spend about 2-3 hours at the range. However, I am thinking that I might start to bring fewer guns and just go more often (possibly for shorter time). Basically, I will be shooting just as much but kind of dividing up the "work load." (Not that playing with guns is to be considered "work.")

I am having difficulty deciding how to pick.
Should I just grab whatever tickles my fancy that particular day?
Take defensive guns one week and fun guns the next?
Semi-Autos or revolvers?
Large and small caliber?
Full size and compact?

I am leaning toward the first choice (just whatever I feel like shooting that day) but I just have such a hard time deciding which ones to bring AND the few times I have done that I always wish I had brought one of the guns I left at home.

Sorry for the neurotic whining rant BUT how do you guys decide?
 
Too many early on.

Now I bring my carry gun, for SD just in case. I like to keep some self defense options.

.22lr pistol does not take up much space. I also like to bring a .22lr rifle. I don't not always bring them.

Then no more than 2 centerfire rifles.

The trick for me is to have a plan for the range session. It may be to work on load development, run particular drill, work on a position, use of a sling, drawstroke, blah, blah, blah. I maybe have a list of 1-3 goals and 1-3 backup goals. Less is more sometimes. I try to concentrate on the task at hand and not sidetrack myself with what I am not doing.

I also go with 1 or 2 guys. Sometimes I meet them at the range. Sometimes we ride together. I tend to decide if it is a rifle or pistol session and do one or the other. I also shot matches so that is an in & out deal with 1 gun needed for the match.

So bottom line is 5 max. Anything more than that become unrealistic & cumbersome. Then ammo & support equipment add up for 2 guys in a pickup truck.
 
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I bring my off duty (lcp, 642, & m&p45c) plus one of my ARs.


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Since I visit the indoor range at least once a month, I usually just bring one or two. Always, I bring my carry gun and sometimes I'll shoot my backup gun or another handgun. Once or twice a year I'll take my old HD shotgun out just to get some rounds out of it.

It's only when I make a trip to the rifle range that I am tempted to bring more guns than I ought to. I just get out there so rarely and all my long guns want to play. I need to move to the country so I can have a backyard range, sigh.
 
I usually bring 2 or 3 at most. I find that my attention waivers after an hour or so and so does my accuracy. Last week I had 5 specific shooting related goals and I went to range on 3 different days.
 
It really depends for me. Sometimes if I want to shoot cheap I will just bring my Marlon 60 to plink. Sometimes I will also grab a .223 if I want to shoot a little larger caliber. I normally always bring my Glock and run at least 50 through it for practice as its my HD gun. Sometimes I will bring 3, 4, or 5 guns..sometimes I take 1. It just depends on my mood and what I feel like shooting
 
It varies. I can go with as few as 1 or 2 or as many 5 or 6. Depends on what I feel like that day.
 
I always take my primary carry gun. And then I'll take 1 or 2 more to play with.
 
Recently, I have only been taking one. I keep my Mark III close at hand and try and stop by the range when I am running errands for my wife. I love the little pistol because I don't have to pick up brass and it is truly quick and easy.

When I have permission, I take one center fire handgun, my .22 target, and typically one center fire rifle. Today I am taking two because I am sighting one in.
 
Only two at most, really.
Lately I have been getting more interested in .22LR handguns. They're fun and as everyone knows they are cheap to feed.
I now have four of the buggers.
While they are fun I have discovered one thing that is true for me: I do not start off with a .22 and transition to a centerfire caliber. I did that once and it was a mistake, because I couldn't hit anything with it. Now, I had shot that gun before (a Sig SP 2022 9mm.) and it's a perfectly good and accurate weapon. But not after I "get used to" the .22.
However, if I start with the centerfire gun, I can do well and then transfer later to a .22 and I'm OK. Go figure ......
Maybe a weird quirk........
Anyway, having more than 2 guns and it's clutter and I enjoy being safe; clutter works against that IMHO.
 
Tommygunn,
I'm with you.
If I am to shoot centerfire pistols I shoot them first. My thinking is if my carry gun is ever needed for SD I will not have warmup shots. So, I judge my carry gun shooting as the first shots coming out the holster. Cold bore so to speak.
Now I have been shooting when I only shot .22lr. I absolutely love .22lr. If I start with them I generally won't get off of them.
 
I usually only bring 2-3 (not including my daily carry) depending on who's coming with me. A big reason for that is because I strip and clean all my guns after every fire and I don't want to have to clean more than 3 at a time :)
 
Bring as many as you have time to shoot/clean. I brought 10 today, but only fired 6. Even then I took about 3hrs to fire those to my satisfaction. After 1-2hr at full focus my eyes get tired and I swap over to the 22s for bottles and cans plinking.
 
I usually take about three pistols and no more than two rifles. I just don't feel like hauling around more than that at one time. Not to mention, I'm at an indoor range that charges $15.00 per hour. I can't afford to shoot all day anyway.
 
My usual range arsenal is either one rifle and two handguns or two rifles and one handgun. Usual range time is about three hours.
 
When I first started shooting I'd tote out pretty much every gun I owned to the range when I went. That got old fast :).

These days I'll usually take 3 per trip. Typically a .22 and two centerfires. I'm also shooting handguns almost exclusively these days. Only time I take rifles is before deer season to make sure the scopes are on.
 
I simply take what I want to shoot. Sometimes I shoot them all, sometimes I don't
 
Well, on a nice sunny day with little wind, I'll take my AR15 since I trying to work up a load for it. I'll take a pistol or two with me to have something to shoot if someone is shooting on the rifle range. We have a lot of firing positions but if I go to the pistol range, there is a good chance that when I'm done shooting pistol, whoever was on the rifle range has left. I belong to a club that isn't all that busy most of the time.

If I come to shoot handguns, 4 seems to be the limit for me. After a certain amount of rounds, it quits being training for me, and just blasting caps. Ammo is a bit expensive to waste.

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