Retirement: Shooting more, less, or the same as pre-retirement?

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Fully retired in April 2019. I have more time for shooting, because I have no other important things to care about every day, and money is not problem as long as I don't make any expensive achievements, to make a hole in my budget. But I don't really need money for anything expensive, because I have all I need to live a happy life. Huge credits to pension advisors from https://www.hensoncrisp.com/, for helping me to make this happen. Now I can shoot for my pleasure every week, I get old, but the aim only gets better.
 
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Retired in 2012. Moved from the country where I had my own place to shoot to another state so I could be near my first great-grand daughter. The only place I have to shoot now is the local range and I absolutely hate it. I now have more guns and ammo than ever but shoot much less. Gun ranges suck.
 
I have been retired for 7 years.
I am shooting quite a bit more than before for several reasons...
1. I have more money to spend
2. I have more time to devote to it.
3. I am reloading so ammunition scarcity doesn't bother me.
4. I have my own range, on my property. Granted ot's only 75 yes, but it works as a pistol range and I can test my reloads for velocity and accuracy at 75 yes.
5. So, yeah, shooting alot more than before I retired.
 
I have switched my “style” of shooting since I was medically retired two years ago. I’m back into revolvers, especially SAA and early model reproductions. I cast more now since I’m reloading more also. Will get into rifles when I heal from my shoulders, having both replaced this year.

I doubt I crank out thousands rounds of 9mm like I use to, no need to shoot competition anymore. Will be getting more obsolete calibers and try my hand with Holy Black soon. Plus there is some Sharps I want to get and renew my love of the Trapdoors. So yeah I’m shootings more fun weapons, casting and reloading more unique calibers, and enjoying it more.

Lefty
 
Retired two years ago.
Have my own range....shooting more regularly, approx 200 rounds a week.
Soooooooo.........More!
 
Medically retired 6 months before covid hit. Can shoot pistol in back yard, private range half hour away, and 3 hr away family property with house and 1500 YD feild/range area. Heart trouble and needing to be at Dr's and hospital takes up big chunks of time most weeks. Have enough supplies to shoot at working time levels for 5+ years but have cut back due to time constraints. Still able to get in 5-800 rounds a week, mostly handgun though. Hopefully I'll be back to normal in another year and back to shooting a few K a month once again.
 
I don’t retire for 2 years, I just hope my health holds out ... I had my left knee replaced a month ago, and probably my right later this year. My right shoulder & left elbow are also going to “need work” ... as far as components, loaded ammo & 22LR I feel pretty good, but could always be better.
Being laid-off for COVID gave me a window to retirement ... I have a couple other interests too and since my wife won’t be able to retire for at least 10 years after me, I’m sure I’ll pick up some of the household chores and while I’ve never been into cooking, my wife says I’m good at it, but maybe she’s just stroking me;)

I haven’t had anyone to go to the range or farm with as most of my best friends aren’t stocked well on ammo ... one recently got a deal on a Glock22 & 100 rounds of ammo. It’s his only 40 and he doesn’t want to go shoot it until he can replace what he’s shot. Not even 1mag just to get the feel of it. Another friend bought a 45acp Glock (not sure of the model) 6 months ago and hasn’t shot it for the same reason.
For both guys, the problem is ammo cost & availability and none of us can go wait outside the local Academy Sports to wait for ammo delivery (at halfway decent price) because we all have jobs! Those that can & do are happy to resell to us poor working saps for $2/per round :fire:
 
Retirement is tied to age, and age is tied to health. Yes, you have more time for shooting, but the health (and the desire) may not be there. I'm finding that at age 76, and after more than 20 years of retirement, the desire to go shooting just isn't there. (The chore of cleaning the guns afterward is a disincentive.) Even my collecting activities are tapering off, as I start to consider the disposition of my collection.
 
4570Tom said:
A question for members who have retired. Do you find yourself shooting more than you did before you retired, about the same, or less. If shooting more, is it purely related to having more time or more access to range time, or something else? If shooting less, is it related to changes in finances, health issues, or just not having as much free time in retirement as you had envisioned? Or something else?
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Definitely more. 2 or 3 time a week, at least, although I tend not to shoot on the weekend, because those poor soles who have to work for a living tend to only have the weekends to shoot, and I don't want to clog the range.
 
4570Tom said:
A question for members who have retired. Do you find yourself shooting more than you did before you retired, about the same, or less. If shooting more, is it purely related to having more time or more access to range time, or something else? If shooting less, is it related to changes in finances, health issues, or just not having as much free time in retirement as you had envisioned? Or something else?
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I find myself shooting more since I retired. As law enforcement I shot probably once every two months, maybe twice. We had to qualify every trimester which is only 3 times a year.
Since retiring and becoming an instructor I find myself shooting a minimum of twice a month. Partly because of demonstrating in classes, partly because I don't want to embarrass myself in front of students! lol Mostly because I have better guns and more than I used to!

Those who can, teach.
Those who can't, get shot.
 
I retired this past January the 8th,,,
I've been to the range one time since then.

I blame the weather as this has been an exceptionally wet late Winter/Spring.

It's clearing up lately though,,,
I'll be going out soon.

Aarond

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I retired in 2017 and have shot less since then. I devoted time and $ to my other hobbies, have had some health issues, and Covid hit. I have my 6th eye surgery next week and of course that means I cannot shoot until that heals. I bought only 1 gun since I retired, and have done some reloading. I will get back into it. I maintain my membership at both an indoor and outdoor range. I turn 72 this year and frankly I am getting old and tired.
 
LESS now after 19 years of retirement, not for health so much but it is a factor. What I seem to do now is make
a lot of PROVEN ammo for rifles & revolvers but not so many that it is stupid, because sometimes barrels change.
I shoot more for longer range & accuracy, don't ruin the semis as much as before, but me & the Wife practice with
our carry & home defense guns quite often but still less than before because one of us is usually ill for some thing
called old age. But now more than ever we do more real practice, fast accurate & reload not just running thru ammo.
Just out there the other day picking out bullets on top of the ground behind out front 60 yard target, where the latest
bullets have dug the older ones out, our friends & grown kids shoot here a LOT.
 
More. I retired effective 01 May 2013 and I like having more range time in addition to just having more time to do the things I like to do. I also enjoy more time to reload so that figures into things.

Ron
 
My situation is atypical. I am turning 70 soon , and my youngest starts college this fall. I became retired 3 years ago , pretty much against my will. In order to preserve my retirement fund I am now working much harder for much less money, so ... I am shooting less because I am so damned busy!
Too bad , because my ammo supply is quite good.

No complaints , life is good. I am blessed with a wonderful family.
 
I will retire for a second time on June15th this year. I really hope to say retired this time and yes, I really hope to shoot more, time will tell. I say to all those who are retired or to soon retire, be safe, keep your powder dry, and most of all hold your family close because the future is more uncertain than ever. God bless all.
 
I shoot a lot more since retiring. I mostly go to the range twice a weeks and shoot two matches a month. I've been lucky enough to have stocked up on my .22 ammo over the years and recently found ammo available on line from CCI's home website at the same price it was before Covid 19 hit.

I now have enough to last a few years so I'm going to bring it out to our next Steel Challenge Match to sell to my friends that haven't been so lucky. I'll add shipping to their purchase but that's the only difference between what I paid for it and my selling price.

It will help a few of the guys that have stopped competing for lack of ammo. Some guys just don't use computers.
 
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