Round count - Your most heavily used gun (poll)

Round count though your most heavily fired gun without performing major miantenance

  • 0 - 1,000

    Votes: 22 10.8%

  • 1,000 - 5,000

    Votes: 68 33.5%

  • 5,000 - 10,000

    Votes: 45 22.2%

  • 10,000 - 25,000

    Votes: 27 13.3%

  • 25,000 - 50,000

    Votes: 19 9.4%

  • 50,000+

    Votes: 22 10.8%
  • Total voters
    203
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How many rounds have you put through your most heavily used/fired gun WITHOUT performing major maintenance? Post what the weapon is. Pictures are always a plus.


-T.

EDIT: Folks are asking what "major maintenance" means. I left out a strict definition on purpose. "Major maintenance" is as defined by YOU, the user. What is major to some is minor to others, eh?
 
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I have a Remington model 241 .22 rifle that has at least 80,000 rounds through it. It was my grandfather's before it was mine so I honestly am guessing at the round count. It could be closer to 200,000.
 
Umm... 350... In one range session...

I clean my gun after every range session, no matter how few shots I fire from it. My gun has about 2700 rounds through it so far without a major malfunction.

I'm sure it could handle 1000 rounds or so without cleaning, but why would I do that to such a fine piece?

BTW, it's a Sig P229R DAK


EDIT: Ahh.. Now I get it cleaning doesn't count. :banghead: In that case, 2700.
 
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+50000 and I havent done any major maintenance to my ruger 10/22.
..and still going strong and accurate :)
It has been to the gunsmith 1 time and that was when I had threads made for
silencer.
But speaking of maintenance....the silencer is a different issue.
Luckily they are quite cheap because mostly silencers get so stuffed
that you cant get them open for cleaning.
..........Im at work now so I dont have any pictures to post but maybe later when I get home.
 
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Define "major maintenance". I don't think I've had "major maintenance" done on my most used gun--my Benelli Montefeltro--but I do completely clean it every 700-1000 rounds or so. I've got about, oh, maybe 3000 round through it since I got it in September. I do a more cursory cleaning whenever it gets wet. PPs seem to be widely divergent in what they consider major maintenance. Clarification might help.
 
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Browning Citori lightning. Trap, hunting, has to be over 10,000 rds picked up used in 98. and NEVER a misfire or a broken part. My buddy picked up his ruger red label 20ga at about the same time and already had to replace one extractor.
 
G21, around 50K + two recoil springs replaced (And the large slide release put on). That's it. And the worst thing is, I'm no Glock fan.:eek:
 
Actually, I'm not sure it NEEDED the spring changes, as the original one is back in it now as a test. Dang ugly thing is still running like a top...
 
I presently campaign in competition with either a Glock 34 with only about 3500 rounds through it, or my #1 Kimber Warrior with about 11,750 rounds through it.

I do have my old SIG 228 I used to compete and CCW with. It has just under 38,000 rounds through it. Stopped shooting it about 5 years ago. I don't use it much any more because of arthritis in my trigger finger. It isn't the strength problem it is the distance of motion that creates the problem.

I don't shoot any of my revolvers much anymore because of the arthritis too.

Getting old sucks, but so does the alternative.

Go figure.

Fred
 
5,000 - 10,000 in my firestorm (Llama) 4.5" 1911 .45acp
Never done a thing except clean and oil.couldn't be hapier with either of my Llama 1911's (also have a Max-I I inherited recently but havent fired nearly as much), inspite of what most people think of them.Maybe I just gor lucky twice, who knows.
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A pair of early 1991A1 Colts that have logged...by best estimates...some 350,000 rounds collectively. Each on its third barrel, with one tighten/refit. Both have mostly original parts, with mainly only service/maintenence parts replacements.

One has the original MIM sear and disconnect. The other has the original disconnect, but a replacement sear. Both have the original hammers, thumb safeties, recoil systems, (Besides springs) and all pins. The plastic triggers were swapped out for something I liked better, and the plastic mainspring housings were changed on the rebuild at 75k for steel units in order to add a little weight.

At somewhere between 145 and 150k, the oldest one cracked the slide at the junction of the breechface and the top, left side of the port. The usual place. It was replaced with a correct, used slide... and even the fitted barrel was a match for it...only requiring light touch-up on the hood.
 
Shotgun

I have a Beretta DT10 12 ga O/U shotgun that is waaaaaay past 50,000. At 100,000 rounds[trouble free], I was at a shoot with the Beretta gunsmiths present, and had them "go through" the reciever......about $150 worth of preventitive parts replacement[it was running fine], and off I went! At a documented 250,000 rounds, it became my backup gun[ I won a medal, and they gave me a new one;) ]......it has had approxmiately another 75,000 rounds through it......and only recently[ dusk hunting last month with it] has started giving me trouble. Its heading up to Beretta this week for some rehab. I'm sure it has another 300,000 or so rounds in it to go!
 
What is major maintenance I guess...

I have a 1911 that I used in IPSC for many years and the thing has 30-40k rounds through, but I changed some springs here and there.

Changed the barrel at around 30k so I guess that is "major"
 
Marlin-Glenfield model 60,part of a pair my parents bought when they got married 33 years ago.I have put at least 50k through it after Dad gave it to me ten years ago.
 
A five year old Marlin Model 60, at least 15,000 rounds through it. It will start to fail to feed after 700-1200+ rounds. It just needs cleaned.
 
A lil over 6,000 In my Kimber Custom Classic. No maintenance other than cleaning and adding a recoil buffer on the guide rod. She runs great
 
I have a Walther P99 and a Bersa Thunder 9 that both have over 5K through them. Both pistols have all the same parts they had when I bought them.
 
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