What is your highest-round-count firearm?

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Mine would be my Uberti clone of a Winchester 1866, in .38 Special. It's got at least 30,000 rounds down the pipe, and probably triple or more that figure in dry cycles. The barrel is still stock, and will shoot a string of ten into a group a little bigger than a quarter at fifty yards. The action's been rebuilt a couple of times, but more to keep up with advances in gunsmithing than because it was worn.

I've never reached that high in round count in cowboy pistols, partly because the 60 rounds a match is split between two guns, and partly because I've been through several sets in the time I've shot that one rifle.

Next highest would likely be my Taurus PT1911, which was originally my CCW piece, and has since morphed into a USPSA Single Stack gun. It's probably around 15,000. It had a good deal of trouble with small parts breakages at the beginning, but has been solid for some time now.
 
I have an old 1911 commercial model that for decades was a range rental gun. It does not lock up very well anymore, as the lugs on top of the barrel are very worn down, as are the frame rails. The hole for the slide-stop is well worn, and the original finish is totally gone in most places, and the original checkering on the wood grips are but a mere fade of when it was new. It has seen an untold number of rounds, no doubt much of that corrosive surplus ball, and although the bore is dark, you can still see much of the rifling.
 
My glock 17. Over 2500 flawless rounds. And yes, I do realize that number is low, but I just got into firearms a few years ago.
 
The most would be through my Marlin 60 which I got from my grandfather. Not sure the exact mileage but easily over 10K.
 
My Marlin 60 has well north of 150,000 rounds through it. It's still going strong too although I don't pile up the rounds with it like I did because I have other chilldren that I wouldn't want to feel neglected. :) I have at least 15,000 rounds through a Sig P220, and an SKS with about 10,000 rounds on it. I don't really keep logs or anything. I can just remember how many times I bought ammo for a particular gun. I have several guns with a fairly high round count for what they are. Some I couldn't say for sure because I bought them used. That Sig was well used when I bought it but I think it was a carry gun for a LEO so likely it didn't have that many rounds through it. It had holster wear but the springs were all still like new. So most likely someone qualified with when they had to and carried it with them daily. I have a Stevens 15-B single shot .22 that my brother used for many years. It was a weekly event for him and my other brother to buy a brick and shoot it on Saturday afternoon. So between that and all the squirrel hunting he did I'd say the count was pretty high. I've put a few thousand on it but nothing like my brother did. I have no idea what the count would be except it's a lot.
 
I bought a Ruger security six new in 1978 ( my first handgun & I still
own it ), it's had at least 65,000-70,000 rounds through it.
The old guy I used to buy reloads from charged about $40.00
per thousand for 38 wadcutters with brass to exchange. I
took a thousand rounds a month from him for close to 4 years.
Then dropped back to 1500-2000 rounds per year. In the last
few years maybe 500-1000 per year out of it.
Also have a Ruger Mark 1 target that I got new in 1980 that
has at least that many through it.
The Security Six has never broken anything and the Mark 1
finally had the tip of the firing pin break last fall, it's extractor
is looking pretty worn also but still works well.
Dave
 
It's not so much a matter of keeping logs as of working out an estimate based on competition schedule. 60 rounds per match, two matches per weekend, nine months per year, for five years. Plus a fudge factor for practice, side matches, etc.
 
Beretta AL390 20ga. over 40,000 rounds, mostly target loads but a fair number of magnum hunting loads as well.
 
my .22

Several thousand rounds. No idea beyond that. It was my first gun, so that had something to do with it. It caught up to my GAMO air rifle probably two years after I got the .22. Still like the GAMO though...
 
Seriously... I have no idea what the round counts of my individual firearms are. But, between the rifle and the pistols, my wife and I went through about three hundred rounds of 22LR this past weekend. Also fired 150 rounds of 45acp, and another hundred or so rounds of 380acp through a couple of pocket pistols before I finished off the day with a few 357's.

So... 600-ish rounds fired just this weekend - but through several firearms.
 
All I really have to do is go out in my yard and look at the river of .22 brass to know I've been shooting a lot of the stuff. It looked the streets of heaven there for a while (streets paved with gold and all) but of course the brass turned colors eventually. Then I think about all those bricks of ammo I bought over all those years and I take a pretty good guess at how often I did it and I figure up how long I was shooting that Marlin and almost nothing else and it really isn't all that hard to get in the ballpark. True accuracy is a lot tougher especially with my newer .22's because I bought a bunch of them in a few years and I don't know how much I shot each one.

7.62 x 39 ammo is easier to gauge too because I bought almost all I've shot in lots of either 500 or 1000.
 
Oh man ... have to be the Remington Nylon 77 I bought new in '74. Gawd knows how many 10's of thousands have gone down that pipe ...
 
Can I get some pics of some of these said firearms with these high round counts? I am curious as to what they look like after all of that
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Pull up a stock photo of a Browning Gti 12 gauge- that is what has about 300,000 through it now after 19-20 years of use. Mine looks almost as good as new, although I cracked the butt stock years ago trying to remove it and the new one has an oil finish while the forearm has a gloss - but the bluing is as new
 
An Uzi which I sold--about 30,000 rds
A Browning P-35 9MM--about 10.000 rds---1 1/2 # trigger pull--fun gun-very accurate
A PPK 380--about 8000 rds---needs new mag release button & 2 new mags
 
I have a Marlin 60 with a synthetic stock put on it because my kids put a 1/2" gash in the original wood stock. Add a cheap laser that was made for pellet guns and a few hundred nicks and dings in the finish and you have my old Marlin 60 with 150,000 rounds through it. It actually looks really good since I put the new stock on it. I expect it to last many more years to be honest.
 
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