How many rounds do you fire per year...for practice?

[inSight-NEO]

Please indicate which caliber. Also, please include how many rounds are either JHP or FMJ. Thanks.

 

[glassman]

Somewhere around 10,000 rounds of JHP. Caliber differs depending on mood and finances.

 

[inSight-NEO]

Somewhere around 10,000 rounds of JHP.

You must be one of those who do their own reloading. I cannot imagine affording such a vast amount of factory ammo per year! Not to mention having enough time to actually plow through such a number. Wow.

 

[MCgunner]

I shoot no more than 300 rounds a month anymore of center fire, mixed lately between .38 and 9x18 Mak and 9x19. I haven't fired my .45 ACP in a while, need to change the press out for .45s and run a few off. I've been loading 9x18 lately and a lot of .38. It is impossible for me to give you a break down caliber by caliber of rounds fired. I just shoot what I feel like that day, don't really worry about round count. I used to shoot a LOT of 9x19, when I was semi-serious about shooting IDPA. I even got a Dillon progressive for set up specifically for the caliber. I'd put a couple hundred rounds a week down range, usually 50 from my Kel Tec and the rest from my Ruger P95, later a P85. I ran up a pretty gun round count on that P11 Kel Tec in 4 years of shootiing mostly 9. I estimate that little gun has around or over 11K rounds though it. I'm easy on it now days, shoot it occasionally since I carry it. I shot it last week.

I always shoot 50-100 rounds of .22LR every trip and I've been taking my cap and ball out a lot. Those get no more'n 50 rounds a trip. Slow to reload. I haven't shot .45 Colt in a while and all my brass is loaded up, I think. I've been slackin' on my .45s except for the Ruger Old Army, that's a .45.

When I go to the range, I just shoot what I'm into that day. Lately, I got a new 9x18 Polish P64 so that's been getting a lot of fire, and I've been buying a lot of Monarch ammo for it at Academy, cheap and available. I never tire of the .38s, though, Taurus 85UL 2", Rossi 68 3", Smith and Wesson M10 4" HB, two Taurus M66 .357s and a Ruger Blackhawk in .357. I've got plenty of guns that take .38. My two 66s get shot a lot and occasionally I break out the M10. But, I usually shoot the Blackhawk at 50 and 100 yards off field rest, shooting stix, with .357 magnum for practice. It's a hunting revolver. I haven't done that in a while, though.

Almost all my shooting with centerfires is done with cast bullet reloads. I cast my own. The 9x18 does get a lot of ball, though.

 

[bluetopper]

Around five thousand rounds of cast lead reloads of 38, 9mm, 357 Mag, 44 Mag, 45acp, and 500 S&W Magnum.

I havent bought a box of factory ammo in a few years.

I have a close, unsupervised, and very cheap place to shoot.

 

[glassman]

You must be one of those who do their own reloading. I cannot imagine affording such a vast amount of factory ammo per year! Not to mention having enough time to actually plow through such a number.

It may sound like a lot but it really isn't. I go to the range almost every week and shoot an average of 200 rounds per trip. As far as expense goes...it's cheaper than a round of golf.

 

[wally]

Typically 20-30K depending on the weather and how often my wife comes along. About 50% .22LR the rest various pistol and rifle calibers with 9mm, .45ACP, & 7.62x39 being the top three although been going through a lot of cheap corrosive 7.62x25 and 5.45x39 lately.

--wally.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

A year ago I would have said less than 1k.
I've started handloading though and now I've increased that several times over. Probably close to 5k now. That's centerfire. I shoot about that many .22 as well.
I guess I could stop playing golf to free up some funds, but I like that ALMOST as much as shooting and loading.

 

[EddieNFL]

1.5K to 2K per month (reloads).

 

[HOWARD J]

When all the kids were home --we shot at least 1200 rds a week in the summer time.
Had 2 Dillions running & Lee turret for odds & ends...................
Now I shoot about 150 per week--indoor range.................
380-9mm-45acp-30 carbine-22cal. - 357 ...................

 

[sonier]

prolly 5000 centerfire about 4000 357 mag and 38s, assort lead cast and jhp, bout 1000 30/06 and prolly 500 30/30. rockchucker is a slow but good press i even burned up a 22 lr barrel last year and it was new last year lol

 

[Sam1911]

Something a bit south of 10,000, depending on finances and match schedules.

.45 ACP, .44 Spc., and these days 9mm, mostly.

A bit of 5.45x39mm. A few .22LRs, but not many.

A few hundred of 7 or 8 other cartridges.

 

[inSight-NEO]

[insert expletive here]....I only manage 800 to 1000 rounds per year, spread out amongst both .40 S&W and .45ACP.

Man, do I feel humbled. I guess the only good thing I can offer is that I seem to maintain sub 3-4" groups. Good enough for my purposes, fortunately.

Regardless, once again, I am absolutely humbled by you guys. I admire such dedication to the craft, honest.

 

[buyone]

500 .357, 400 .45, 1500 .22, and around 1000 9mm. 22 are hp everything else is fmj. I shoot behind my house so most of my shooting is done in the summer

 

[mcdonl]

I dunno... maybe 2400 rounds. Plenty. I have been busy with schooling so no IDPA or anything. If I were practicing for matches it may go up by 2 or 3 thousand but with my equipment and skills shooting 10000 rounds wont make me much better then I am now, and I am ok with that.

 

[cavman]

Bullseye: Around

4000 .22 standard velocity
6000 .45 SWC lead swage
1000 .45 SWC lead cast (recently bought some cast for training, less$
1000 .45 FMJ Hardball

SWC are reloads.

 

[Hangingrock]

Because of component availability last year fired only 200,000 rounds off from the usual 600,000. Because of the cost increase in components I’ll need to sell some prime ocean front property in Arizona this year.

 

[Sam1911]

Because of component availability last year fired only 200,000 rounds off from the usual 600,000...

Ha ha! Had me for a second! I only know one guy who gets close to half of that and most of that is work-related.

 

[jhallrv4]

Honestly, I have no idea. A bunch.

.22lr, 9mm, .38/.357, .45 acp, .223, 7.63x39,
I hate .40, so none of that. Mostly reloads, except for the .22, obviously. In fact, I think I can say that in the past two years, all reloads. CRAPLOADS of 12ga. (I shoot a LOT of trap). Almost all reloads.

Keeping track would be a second career, so I don't. I'm not sure why I'd care.

Jeff

 

[earlthegoat2]

Because of component availability last year fired only 200,000 rounds off from the usual 600,000.

Thats all you shoot? I do that in a month.

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maybe five thousand 22
about a thousand centerfire

 

[martialartsblackbelt]

crazy numbers guys, personally 1000 .22
and 600 FMJ .40

 

[fjlee]

I have a Ruger GP100 in .357 Mag......

I keep detailed records....so can give precise answer. So far, I have averaged 552 shots per year. These have all been 125 grain JHP handloads.

FjLee

 

[M2 Carbine]

How many rounds do you fire per year...for practice?

I can't even guess. I shoot 4-5 times a week. Sometimes shoot a couple times a day but only usually shoot a couple hundred rounds at a time.

22, .380, 38 Special, 9x18, 9mm, 45ACP, 223, but not so much .32, 40 S&W, Carbine, 30.06, etc.

I just bought a Beretta PX4 and PX4 sub compact and have almost a thousand rounds through them.


I don't believe in that "carry a lot, shoot a little" stuff.

 

[mljdeckard]

(not counting army-related stuff,) I shot about 1200 rds of WWB .45 fmj last year. But I also shot several thousand .22s with the conversion slide. I decided to get serious about reloading.

 

[MMCSRET]

I shoot 8000/10000 rounds a year, but I don't shoot jacketed bullets in my handguns as a rule. I cast and load my own for about 25 handguns. I do shoot a few jacketed in long guns, maybe 2000 a year, don't shoot long guns much anymore and even then I shoot cast in several of them.