Remington1911
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Not the sound, but how much.
Over in the rifle sub section there is a topic going on about ammo stashes. And reading the comments in there is interesting.
One guy said he has X ammo and likely could make that last his lifetime, and he knows people that shoot that much in a year.....got me thinking....how much do I shoot and am I normal.
Now the how much do you shoot.....is that now, or is that pre stupidity. I know the stupidity has slowed me way down, as components just did not exist. Last two years I shot a couple boxes of shot gun shells, some rimfire, perhaps one box of centerfire pistol, and off the top of my head no centerfire rifle. In the past before covid and an alzheimer's patient in the oral office (left over from clinton days) I would shoot easy 100 shotgun shells every other week. A round of sporting clays is about that. I played some rimfire games and shot CMP, so easy 200 rounds of each...real easy.
So really the question now.....for today, in this day and age....how much do you shoot in an outing.
Myself I have not done much shotgun stuff, perhaps 20-40 rounds in the back yard to stay sharp. I have about 20 boxes of clays so pretty set there.
Rimfire, I will generally take a brick down, but likely will only shoot 50-100 rounds at a sitting. I have moved to single action and single shot rifles and away from automatics, I still like to ding steel as fast as I can but not as much as I once did.
Centerfire pistol, I shoot my 357 lever quite a bit, but the hand guns not so much, again about a box an outing.
Centerfire rifle, Same thing, if just blowing off steam, perhaps 50 rounds. I have moved into really working up loads for the different rifles, so that is about 5 rounds of a few different powder weights and types, and log those results.
I have about 3000 steel case 223 ammo, I am trying to burn up. Even with packs in the cans they are starting to rust, a little steel wool and good, just light surface rust, so trying to use them up. They have to be at least 20 years old. Even trying to burn this ammo I am good to get 50 rounds down in an outing.
My issue is the $$$ meter is running in my head with every trigger pull. And I don't think I was this crazy about finding every single spent bit of brass....stop where did that go...there you are...in my pocket little feller. On a side note on the lever I am getting good at working the lever and catching the brass before it hits the ground.
Over in the rifle sub section there is a topic going on about ammo stashes. And reading the comments in there is interesting.
One guy said he has X ammo and likely could make that last his lifetime, and he knows people that shoot that much in a year.....got me thinking....how much do I shoot and am I normal.
Now the how much do you shoot.....is that now, or is that pre stupidity. I know the stupidity has slowed me way down, as components just did not exist. Last two years I shot a couple boxes of shot gun shells, some rimfire, perhaps one box of centerfire pistol, and off the top of my head no centerfire rifle. In the past before covid and an alzheimer's patient in the oral office (left over from clinton days) I would shoot easy 100 shotgun shells every other week. A round of sporting clays is about that. I played some rimfire games and shot CMP, so easy 200 rounds of each...real easy.
So really the question now.....for today, in this day and age....how much do you shoot in an outing.
Myself I have not done much shotgun stuff, perhaps 20-40 rounds in the back yard to stay sharp. I have about 20 boxes of clays so pretty set there.
Rimfire, I will generally take a brick down, but likely will only shoot 50-100 rounds at a sitting. I have moved to single action and single shot rifles and away from automatics, I still like to ding steel as fast as I can but not as much as I once did.
Centerfire pistol, I shoot my 357 lever quite a bit, but the hand guns not so much, again about a box an outing.
Centerfire rifle, Same thing, if just blowing off steam, perhaps 50 rounds. I have moved into really working up loads for the different rifles, so that is about 5 rounds of a few different powder weights and types, and log those results.
I have about 3000 steel case 223 ammo, I am trying to burn up. Even with packs in the cans they are starting to rust, a little steel wool and good, just light surface rust, so trying to use them up. They have to be at least 20 years old. Even trying to burn this ammo I am good to get 50 rounds down in an outing.
My issue is the $$$ meter is running in my head with every trigger pull. And I don't think I was this crazy about finding every single spent bit of brass....stop where did that go...there you are...in my pocket little feller. On a side note on the lever I am getting good at working the lever and catching the brass before it hits the ground.
