Range days: Do you track your performance/rounds fired?

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Round count is one thing, but I've been thinking about setting up an excel file as well as a folder where I keep pictures of all my shots taken. I'd like to think that over time, I can see how I've improved or not.

Figured it would be a good way to also track how many shots I've fired through a specific firearm.
 
Instead of a file consider using a Score and Data book. Available from Creedmore sports, Champions Choice Inc. and other outlets. It's shooting diary with dedicated lines for sight corrections ,weather data, load info, impacts, etc. Make entries instantly as they occur when it's fresh in your mind. Round counts and a history of the day can always be reviewed
 
I keep strict round counts for all my guns and I keep notes on how the guns ran and which specific handloads I used and how those loads performed.

As for how I shot? Naaa, I don't keep tabs on that. I shoot for enjoyment, skill building seems to happen on it's own and it's never been a primary goal. I'm still shooting handguns today for exactly the same reason that I started: pure fun!

I also freely admit that keeping round counts and short note-taking and report writing on each of my guns is a large part of the enjoyment that I get from shooting.
 
Like Sevens, I keep a strict log of shots fired for each firearm. I log them by the magazine, and I record the ammo make and type (or handload) and any malfunctions. That's more important information to me than how I shot.

I use an Excel spreadsheet.
 
Look into shareware called "Point-Blank".
It does all the donkey work for you & the data can be exported into Excel.
I can't post images because of copyright issues but basically it prints one of several targets you choose to shoot at & you copy the data back into the virtual one in a database.
 
I used to track and keep records of my shooting. I used to chronograph rounds. It took me more time to set up and take down my gear at the range then the time I used for actual shooting.

A few years I stopped recording all my shooting data.

You know what happened?

Shooting became much more fun again.
 
I would consider that if I hit the same wall... but that sure has not happened yet.

I will totally agree that chronographing loads SUCKS. Fun sucking stupid box and that thing was trying to make me want to send my bullets faster for no Earthly reason I could figure... so now I probably chrono once or twice a year at most.
 
Haha, actually... math was the biggest reason I petered out of college. But I have "collecting" in my nature. And the collecting of data has always seemed to paint somewhat of a picture to me. It is no stretch whatsoever to say that I get a LOT of joy from keeping records, data and write-ups on my guns and shooting.
 
As long as it keeps you off the streets and out of the bars, all is good. :)
I was actually a math major in college.
It didn't do me much good at all.
You didn't miss much.
Now, engineering, chemistry and physics on the other hand...........
Those included all the math that was necessary for a happy and fruitful life.
Don't need no stinkin' calculus.
 
While I don't keep an accurate round count outta each gun at the range, I do try and keep a concise record of how different handloaded ammo performs in individual firearms. Not only accuracy, but how well it feeds, any difference in felt recoil and changes in performance due to extreme temperature differences. Do so over the years, I have found some of my "pet" loads were not always my "best" loads.
 
I never thought I would track, and at first I didn't track anything, now I'm tracking the number of times I've reloaded a batch of brass. I recently had two instances of 9mm brass separation, where the brass split in half and became stuck in the chamber. I have no idea how many times I reloaded the brass, but it was about a years' worth of reloading and shooting.

Now I am tracking to see how many reloads before separation happens to a new batch.



 
I have never, EVER had that happen with 9mm brass and I have shot the stuff countless times. Your 9mm certainly runs a bit differently than ours I am sure due to the high volume, high speed and high heat of your guns.

My knee jerk reaction from the pics is that you are maybe seeing that from some of these new-on-the-market stepped cases we have seen? What are the head stamp? I have seen this brass and I personally have no intention of loading it-- simply because traditional 9mm brass is so plentiful.
 
I used to log all sorts of things, over time I've come to find it a huge waste of time except for tax deductions and flight logs.
Logs are occasionally fun to review and reminisce, but usually not worth all the effort...ymmv.

If I were a bench rest shooter and/or hand-loading I'd log that stuff to determine what works and how to duplicate it.

You could keep it simple... just shoot a photo of your targets, then after awhile put them into a movie that shows your groupings tighten up over time.
 
I don't count anything other that how much ammo I take with me when I shoot. I spent over 31 years keeping very accurate records of everything for work and when I retired, I decided that was enough for me. My last day of work was the day before daylight saving time in 2003. That was also the last day I shaved. I don't think there is a need to keep records or shave when you have the time to do whatever you want. I shoot guns, ride motorcycles and play with grandchildren in my "spare" time.
 
I keep an approximate round count of a Kimber Solo and a Kahr CM9, simply because it is recommended to replace the recoil spring after a relatively limited number of rounds, and, as they are EDC guns, they need to work perfectly if ever needed. I also keep track of how many rounds fired through my AR50.

Several of my Cowboy Action revolvers are in sets of 3 (gotta have a backup, ya know ;) ), and I'll keep track of which set gets shot at a match and keep rotating the other one in; 1,2 - 2,3 - 3,1 - repeat, but not how many rounds have been through them.

And I keep very good records of all the ammunition I've reloaded over the past 40 years.
 
I keep track of gun and reloaded ammo by photographing the target. I am interested in keeping track of reload performance, and where the point of impact is from my sights. I used to cut out the group on the target, but realized I had too much paper to fool around with. Pictured I can keep on the computer is much tidier and faster to search.
 
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