Question: How many rounds/how often (range question)

[dxkj21]

How often do you go to the range? 1 a week? 2 a week? 1 a month? If you can shoot on your own property feel free to substitute that.


How much ammunition do you shoot per range visit? Of each gun/caliber?


I have a 9mm and a .22 and I probably go through 150 rounds of 9, and 200-300 of .22 each visit. I just realized that this becomes prohibitively costly long term oops

Guess I need to put in some overtime at work.

 

[CombatArmsUSAF]

200 rds a week of 9mm

 

[dxkj21]

200 rds a week of 9mm

So about 10k rounds a year? Do you reload? If not what brand of 9mm do you use mostly. Is that all through 1 gun?


Thanks

 

[Rob1035]

I try to shoot twice a month, more if I can, but it doesnt always happen. Usually 100-150 in 9mm, 150-200 in .22lr (my only calibers) each session, whether in the woods plinking or punching paper at local indoor ranges

 

[wally]

How often? every chance I get! Probably average once a week. I fantasize about having some rural land to build on, but unless the gov gets serious about promoting telecommuting it can't happen until we retire.

How much? typically 300-500 rounds of 9mm (cheap CCI Aluminum Blazer FMJ) and/or .45ACP (my reloads and Wolf FMJ. and another 300-500 of .22LR (whatever is on sale). May seem excessive, but I mostly shoot steel plates so its fast and fun to burn up ammo. I use a mix of guns with red dot sights and iron sights. The irons are frustrating unless I put on my reading glasses but I need to keep in practice with them for CCW.

Today was typical: 100 rounds of 9mm with iron sights in my FM HiPower, 200 9mm rounds thru my Armscor 1911-A2 (Para P18 clone) with J-Point red dot, 200 rounds of .45 lead SWC thru my RIA with J-Point, 200 rounds thru Beretta Neos with red dot, 200 rounds thru Ruger 22/45 with red dot, and 100 rounds thru Ruger Mark I with iron sights. I have enough mags for each gun that all the above shooting was from mags loaded before I went to the range.

Once every 4-6 weeks or so I empty one of my carry guns at the plates and then run a box of cheap ammo thru it

Not really much more expensive than being in a bowling league or golfing once a week, actually cheaper since they don't sell beer at the range

--wally.

 

[Rob1035]

plus being good at bowling probably wont help you much if you have to defend yourself

 

[wally]

Lots of short range stopping power in a bowling ball, main problem is concealing it

--wally.

 

[CombatArmsUSAF]

All through my Beretta 92, I shoot 115gr WWB, costs me about $50 every two weeks. Reloading 9mm isn't really worth it in my opinion due to the fact that factory ammo is still relatively cheap.

 

[wally]

+1 to not really being worthwhile to reload 9mm unless you insist on shooting JHP (I used to do this guite a lot to explode two liter bottles filled with water, but my current range doesn't allow this). Reloading .45 ACP with cast bullets gets .45ACP costs down to about the same as 9mm Blazer (ignoring my time) and saves about $50 compared to a case of Wolf. Takes me 4-5 hours to re-load 1000 rounds working at a leasurely pace, counting clean up. I enjoy doing it -- producing something tangible, otherwise the $10-15/hr pay rate is well below what I'd normally bill.

--wally.

 

[Moonclip]

CAUSAF, have you got a broken locking block yet out of curiosity? I go maybe once a month or so. usually fire about 100 rounds of 9x19 and 2-300 of 22long rifle. For centterfire pistols,it is usually calibers like 9x18, 9x19 and 38spl so I can afford to shoot more. My 45acp firearms let alone 44mag and 45LC rarely get a range session. I space out my 9x19 and 22 shooting in various guns to avoid stressing any one out or have one beter examle I use a lot. This can vary greatly though depending if I can make it to a place I can shoot 8x57 or 7.62x54r or 7.62x39 or if trying out a new gun then it could be 50-150 rounds of any caliber then.

Last range trip involved around 75 rounds of 38S&W for example.

 

[JeepDriver]

20,000 rds of 9mm a year (yes that's 20,000, I really like me 9mm's )
5,000 + rds of 223 a year
2,000 +/-rds of 40S&W a year
1,000 +/- 12GA 00 Buck/Slugs a year
2,000 +/- rds 308 a year
Unknown amount of 22's a year

Plus a couple calibers I don't really keep track of, don't shoot them enough to matter. (45 ACP, 357 Sig, 357 Mag, 38 Spc, 303 British, 500 S&W)

 

[english kanigit]

Well, when I worked at the Deli I went down to the local indoor range between my shifts. Usually I went twice a week and used up a brick of .22 per visit. Every third visit I would rent something and put about 100 rounds through it, even a Block! I did this for almost three months straight. My skill level shot through the roof.

I miss those days...

 

[gen]

I shoot 700-800 .40 S&W a month, it's 17 a box per 100 - you do the math

 

[1911Tuner]

Range Time

2-4 times a week...550-600 rounds per trip. .45 ACP...98% of which are reloads with home-cast bullets. If nostalgia hits hard, I'll shoot a little .357 mag...Also reloads...Also with home-cast bullets...usually 100 rounds or so.
Yep...I drive'em wide open. (160-grain/1200 fps/Alliant 2400) Nope...Don't get any leading. Get a little with the .45s, but that ain't a biggie.

 

[wally]

Yep...I drive'em wide open. (160-grain/1200 fps/Alliant 2400) Nope...Don't get any leading.

Wow, what's your secret alloy? The cast bullets I buy (Rucker, Northeastern, National) don't lead in .45 but in .357 I've found nothing that will work (besides jacketed) without leading once my supply of copper base "gas-check" bullets run out and I'm down to my last 1000, but I don't shoot .357 much anymore either.

--wally.

 

[CombatArmsUSAF]

Not yet, but when they did the military tests back in the 80's they had the older style locking block and out of ten guns not a single locking block failure in thirty thousand rounds. I have heard of much longer but that is where military testing ceases. It's funny that you asked about the locking blocks, because we just go ta shipment of the new style in at work. Evidently the new design isn't compatible with the old plunger design. ( Nobody told us ) So now we got 45 locking blocks that we can't do anything with until we get new plungers

 

[trickyasafox]

im envious of tuner's 1-2k per week. he shoots more in a month then most of us do in a year

 

[1911Tuner]

Secret Alloy

Wow, what's your secret alloy? The cast bullets I buy (Rucker, Northeastern, National) don't lead in .45 but in .357 I've found nothing that will work (besides jacketed) without leading once my supply of copper base "gas-check" bullets run out and I'm down to my last 1000, but I don't shoot .357 much anymore either.

--wally.

9.25 pounds Wheelweight metal and 3/4 pound Dutch Boy 50/50 wire solder.
The secret is in the sizing and sealing off of the gasses. A bullet that's too hard will lead worse than one that's just hard enough to take the rifling if the sizing isn't right. Friction isn't the mechanism that leads barrels. Gas cutting past the side of a bullet that doesn't upset and seal the bore is the culprit.

 

[Growler]

I try to get out at least 1 time a week. I'll shoot a mix of 22 and another caliber, like 9mm or 357. I like to shoot 100 or so 22 followed by 50-100 of the other. I shoot whatever brand runs good that's on sale usualy WWB, for the 22 since they are so cheap the way it is I prefer mini mags. Soon I plan on getting into reloading so I can shoot more of the larger cartridges.

 

[browningguy]

Usually twice a month, vary between rifles and pistols. Sunday was a light rifle day, about 15 rounds of 500 gr. 458 Win. Mag., 100 rounds of .223 in the Keltec, 6 shots with a 30-06 Vanguard (working up a handload). Usually on these days I take the Keltec or the SKS for playing with and one or two hunting rifles just to keep them warmed up. Total rounds on a rifle day range from 100-200. And by the way, those 500 gr. loads should count extra.

Pistol days, normally around 20-40 rounds of .40 S&W in my carry guns, then 40-50 rounds of 9mm in my High Power Competition (Ishoot this just about every pistol day), then finish up with one of the .22's for 50-100 rounds.

 

[Rezin]

Wife and I go every Monday. Shoot anywhere from 50-100 rds each at the moment.

 

[jburks]

I average twice a week at the range. Usually shoot about 200 - 250 rounds of 45 ACP. I just started reloading this week and am having a great time with it. I think reloading really rounds out the sport. Before reloading I was shooting Wolf ammo that I would pay $138/1000 at Cabelas. I spend much less time cleaning my gun since I've started reloading

 

[Stinkyshoe]

Heya Tuner Buddy!

Tuner-
With that amount of practice each week ( ) , how do you keep up with the reloading? Is that on a 550 dillion or something? When reloading in bulk like that, what is your price per shot? One last question, do you have a bullet mold that allows you to do multiple bullets at a time?
Thanks
Ss

 

[M2 Carbine]

I've got a fifty yard pistol range in the back yard and a hundred yard range in the woods.

About every one to three days I'll shoot in the yard and once or several times a week I shoot something big on the rifle range.

The trouble with the back yard range is the reloadable brass is easily lost in the grass. So I'll shoot 38 revolvers or something with throw away brass like 22LR or Makarov steel case ammo.

I don't tend to shoot a lot at one time, a box or two, but I may shoot a couple guns two or three times a day since it's so easy to grab a hand full of loaded magazines or a pocket full of 38's and shoot for a half hour or so, then go about some other chores.

Retirement is nice.

 

[psyopspec]

2-3 trips/month.

9mm - 100-150 rds.

.45 - 50 rds.

5.56 [once a month] - 300 rds.