How often do you shoot, how many rounds per session?

[Harrier]

I've been shooting about 300 rounds a day 3x a week for the past 4 months... you figger it out.

 

[Doc Holliday]

I've been shooting about 300 rounds a day 3x a week for the past 4 months... you figger it out.

Somewhere around $3200 in ammo? :shock:

 

[knockonit]

couple thousand a month , cool months, half that in the warm ones

 

[DRTDIVR]

I've been shooting about 300 rounds a day 3x a week for the past 4 months... you figger it out.

This makes me realize I need to work on a bigger ammo budget. That is commitment!

 

[Harrier]

I've been reloading since the 60's... some of that is stuff I put back since the 80's... very little was factory loaded stuff.
I had to move it all recently and thus I realized just how much I had, so now I'm 'downsizing' weight or... de-casing it, as i like to think.

For example, I had 1800 38-super I loaded in 1988... i want to sell the gun now, who wants to buy old reloads? I used it to practice shooting drills... walking L>R or R>L or B-F... mag changes etc. Now I only have 95 loaded rounds of factory 38 super and 2000 empty cases i can sell or trade and I got to refine some skill levels.

I cast a lot of 45, 44, 40 and 38 over the years and we all know how much lead weighs so... I reduced that pile considerably, but found more since then....
I don't even wanna know what the $$ value or cost was.

 

[Ballistic Therapy]

If we count 22's all I can say is , a whole lot.

 

[Elk34]

Right now, not a lot.

 

[Pscipio03]

I average about 10k per year on my Dillon in 9mm and about 1/3 that in 45. So, I guess I could divide that by 12 to get a monthly number.
I tend to go in and shoot 1,000 one day, then a couple days later just go in to verify a new load or sight in something and may only shoot 20 or so.
Gunsite classes will let me burn through a good number as well. Have a carbine course coming up and I made 2,500 5.56, which I suspect I'll through through about half or more.

 

[Jeep]

I try to shoot 100 to 300 rds when I get out.

 

[toepopper]

3000 rounds a session, once a month. I usually take a breather in the summer months.

 

[tlieberman240]

Depends on what I'm doing. I can get a quality session with 150 rounds, just like I can with 1,000 rounds.

I've lost count how many people I've seen at indoor ranges blazing through ammo, not hitting shit. Like 8" groups with a handgun at 7yrds, but they'll talk about how much they shoot as if it's a good thing. To me, that's embarassing.

Pre-Covid, I'd run between 500-1,000 of 9mm per month, and 250-500 of 5.56. Shooting once every-every other week, with one longer outdoor session thrown in (around 6hrs). Each indoor session, I'd pick maybe two things to focus on and get in the reps. Hell, I could take an hour at an indoor range just doing 1R1s and analyze what I'm doing after each rep. 100 rounds get me 50 reps of those isolated movements. Would do the same with draw 1s, controlled pairs, target transitions, etc.

Outdoor sessions were utilized to bring everything together. At that point, I'm pretty confident in the isolated movements and tasks I had been practicing between range time and dry firing, so the outdoor shooting just allowed me to put it all together and push myself while adding in other factors like movement, larger transitions, etc.

 

[mtptwo]

If shooting rifle, about 150 rounds at 200 and and whatever the other target is (280 I think) out at Rio Salado.

Pistol, around 150 rounds at 3 to 10 yards.

I don't shoot in the summertime. Too freaking hot.