How much do you shoot your center fire handgun?

[sirgilligan]

How much do you shoot your center fire handgun?

I have a theory that the vast majority of handgun owners do not shoot very often. I believe that those that post on a forum most likely shoot more than the average handgun owner, but I don't believe it is a lot more.

 

[burrhead]

I have more than one center fire handgun, as I imagine most folks on this site do. Anyway, I shoot my two carry guns once a week, all together around 200 rds per session. I also shoot others on occasion just for fun. Some weeks I don't make it due to weather or life getting in the way. It works out to about 8K +/- per year.

 

[Pete D.]

Numbers

Anyone involved in competition or serious training is likely to be shooting at the high end of your survey.... Even more. If you consider that a Bullseye match each week will use 180 rounds per match and the shooter may shoot double or triple that in practice, over five hundred a week right there.
Other forms of competition may demand even more,
Not handguns but the clay sports eat shells. I am a low volume Trap shooter and I go through 5k shells a year. Pistols account for another few thousand. Rifles less than both.

 

[Deaf Smith]

Which 'centerfire handgun'?

My completion Glock 35? My CCW Glock 26? CCW S&W Centennial? My woods gun, the GP100?

Deaf

 

[Cee Zee]

The only reason I don't shoot a lot right now is my location. I am away from my house and living in a more civilized area. I do get to shoot some but my landlord only allowed me to shoot .22's. I recently got that changed but over the course of the last 2 years I pretty much had to go to the gun range to shoot my pistols. I did buy a .22 pistol to shoot here and I've shot it quite a bit since. But I kept my average listed low because of the situation over the past 2.5 years. That number is going up substantially now but on average I've only shot about 50 rounds a month during the time I've been away from my true home. When I lived there (for 25 years) I shot hundreds of rounds a month. My yard looks like it's paved with brass or it did when I was there. I'm sure it looks different now. Plus I had friends that came over to my house to shoot.

So my round has been down but it's going back up. If you had asked me this 3 years ago I would have answered either 200 or 500 rounds per month. I would have had to figure it up. Probably would have been 200 because it's hard to shoot a lot in the winter months.

 

[pymi]

I try to practice with my carry gun once a week with magazine change so 32 rounds a week.

 

[Chuck R.]

I own my own range out back, reload for everything I shoot and average about 10-12K in pistol ammo a year (based on Small and large pistol primer count). It's not uncommon for me to shoot 2-times a week for a couple hundred rounds at a whack.

Took a class back in MAR/APR that had 3 range sessions for a little over 1500 rds.
It all adds up.

Chuck

 

[GBExpat]

How much do you shoot your center fire handgun?

I have a theory that the vast majority of handgun owners do not shoot very often....

I have many centerfire handguns from which to choose, a backyard range and shoot multiple handguns several times every month.

 

[hamp sandwich]

I'm a binge shooter... I'll go a week to a couple months without shooting more than a box, but every now and then, I'm going through 1K in a day.

 

[nettlle]

I have a range behind my house and shoot around 300 rounds each weekend chores and weather permitting. I've shot about 12K in the last twelve months.

 

[ColtPythonElite]

I average 1k a month year round.

 

[sirgilligan]

All of your center fire handguns combined.

I expected the early votes would come from the more avid shooter.

 

[susieqz]

if you added rimfire we would be off the chart.
people can afford rimfires. even reloaded 9mm is twice as expensive.

 

[Twiki357]

I was averaging 300 to 500 a month until my local indoor range shut down about a month ago for a three month remodel. That leaves the closest decent range at 150 mile round trip in 100+ degree temps so it’s zilch for a while.

 

[CajunBass]

Oh, I'd say I shoot about 50 rounds a week or so. Not the same gun, but something. I have to to justify belong to the range.

 

[flphotog]

Which one of them?

 

[jmr40]

I'm primarily a rifle shooter, but one or more handguns go to the range every trip and I'll put several magazines through them. I go 2-3 times a month. The range I use have the rifle and pistol ranges back to back. I can put up targets on both. Shoot my rifles and while the barrels cool I can walk 30' behind me and shoot handguns in the opposite direction.

 

[375supermag]

Hi...

My son and I generally shoot about 6K rounds a year of centerfire handgun ammunition.
Most of it between March and October.

More this year...he got a new Beretta M9 for his 21st birthday and I bought a S&W M&P 40 just because I wanted to try something new. Usually shoot 250-400 rounds of factory ammo through a new autoloader before I am confident it is working properly and broken in.

We are probably on track to shoot around 8k rounds of centerfire handgun ammo this spring/summer...weather and work permitting.

 

[ku4hx]

... even reloaded 9mm is twice as expensive.

Not really. It depends on what specifically you're comparing it to, but I can load 9mm for about 7 cents per round or $7.00 per 100. By the time you add in taxes, that's about the same as CCI Mini-Mags at Wal-Mart: http://www.walmart.com/ip/CCI-22LR-Copper-Plated-40gr-Round-Nose-100ct/16879789

Admittedly, that's using my own cast bullets but that's been my bread and butter for decades. All the equipment has long since been paid for.

 

[kimberkid]

Like many people here I have a selection of hand guns ... some, like my 9mm Colt 1911 Target pistol and 10mm Colt Delta Elite haven't been to the range in years while others show up fairly often. I too am a binge shooter and sometimes I'll go through 4-10 boxes a month; mostly in my HK Tactical 45; HK MK23 or SiG TacOps 45, but I've also got a Beretta M70, Ruger MKIII, Hi-Standard and Colt 22 Target pistols that get a bit of a workout from time to time too. I will admit, the toys with threaded barrels / suppressors are favored.

As to my carry gun, several decades ago I shot a couple boxes a week then I got into long guns and shooting Service Rifle matches and that cut into the time and funds so it was a couple boxes every couple months ... a few years after that I decided that as long as I could hit a 10" gong at 50 feet 7 out of 10 times that was good enough and since then I rarely shoot more than a box (50) a month.

 

[MedWheeler]

I answered under the assumption of choosing only one gun, at about fifty rounds every three runs. Triple that if you want me to include all centerfire handguns I own, though a few go years without being fired.

I shoot a lot of rimfire during each range session, so that takes from centerfire shooting as well.

 

[BSA1]

Well prior to doing a pretty good job of almost dying twice in the last 2 1/2 years it was about 200 rounds a month. I have regained enough of my health back so I should be back to shooting that much this summer. I just got a large brass order in and need to track down some bulk 4 or 8# powder so I can start reloading again.

 

[ACP]

ugh. this poll makes me remember that between work and kids' school/sports, I have not shot a centerfire handgun in... 2 months? I haven't even sighted-in my Ruger Mk III with the new Volquartsen trigger/sear and Hi Viz front sight, and that has been sitting in the safe ready to go for over a month.

Maybe I'll scrape some time out of Father's Day tomorrow...

 

[susieqz]

ku4, thanks for telling me how much i could save by reloading. i knew i could save, but not that much.

 

[Lord Teapot]

never, 0 rounds/year, i just collect them and they look pretty in the safe.