You put how many rounds thru your gun?

Why the crap attitude, Wil? You did the same old curmudgeon thing in the recent thread about our older shooters... spent most of your characters whining about young whipper snappers. Now it's about people who spend more time talking than shooting.

I've met plenty with the same attitude. They don't impress me in person, either.
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So why don't you go shoot rather than bitch about those of us that cannot do it anymore for whatever reason. Some of us are homebound by caring for a loved one and don't have the necessary time anymore. Talking about it "on the net" keeps us close to the sport we still love, but may have all but lost, due to something we can't control. But, we certainly don't need our noses rubbed in it by some thoughtless braggart.
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It's the little dogs that bark the loudest. Just ignore him and he'll eventually slink back in to obscurity or find another forum that is willing to tolerate his rudeness. AND so it goes...
 
if you go shooting twice a month, and blow 500 rounds at a time, thats 1000 a month. it would cost about $200 a trip and $400 a month

12,000 rounds a year.

if you own the gun for ten years, thats easily over 100k, give or take what you may do on a month to month basis. busy month here, extra training there.

not saying that's an average amount of shooting, I WISH I could shoot that much. But it is plausible for someone who makes decent money and enjoys the hobby.
 
My daughter and I are both shooting NRA courses, just to have something more to do than burn ammunition. We normally go twice a week. Each coarse of fire is a hundred rounds. So at a minimum we use 400 rounds a week. That adds up fast because we always end up shooting some just to shoot. I am probably around 500,000 over thirty years in my S&W Mod 28 (for many years I put at least 500 rounds a week through it) and it is still my most accurate and most often shot handgun, most of those rounds are lower power hand loads.
 
I just got into guns and shooting and have sold a handgun and a shotgun so the rounds through those aren't accounted for since I no longer have them.

Weatherby PA-08 Pump 12GA-0 Rounds, two days old
Mossberg ATR 100 .270 WIN- Maybe 50 rounds
Para Ordnance 1911 .45 ACP-Maybe 400 rounds
Mossberg 702 Plinkster .22LR-400 rounds


As you can see, I don't shoot nearly as often as I'd like. So I post and hang out online MUCH MORE than I shoot. Travel rather extensively for work.
 
I recall Charlie Askins saying that between his being an active competetive shooter, firearms instructor for the Border Patrol plus an active hunter that between 1929-1939 he fired 500,000 or so rounds. How many rounds did Ed McGivern fire?
 
I have a friend that reloads for me. I pay for my own powder and primers and i keep my brass (although i have to buy brass now and then) and i shoot .45's which isnt cheap.

I keep meticulous shot count records and through my:

Hog 45 = 2,950 rounds

Walther 22 = 14,725
(i buy bulk ammo really cheap for my 22's)

Shiva custom 45 = 21,777
(this was a custom made revolver that a friend of my fathers made and he gave it to me after about 10,000 rounds)
 
I have no idea how many rounds a year I shoot, much less how many from each gun. Not as many as when I was shooting competitively for sure. Then it was if I wasn’t shooting, I was reloading and/or casting, always needing to catch up. I don’t remember how much it cost me to reload for the .45, but for .38 wad cutters it cost $1.29 per 50......... Two and a half cents a shot......... Bullseye was about $9.95 a pound, 2600 or so loads per pound, primers were less than a penny apiece, cast wad cutters myself............. Those days are gone...... Forever.........
 
I could see it happening. I could easily afford to go to the skeet range every week at 6 bucks a box and 7 bucks all day at the throw your own place and roughly 7 bucks a box of skeet it would around 50 bucks a week. at 150 rounds a week that would put me at 7800 rounds a year. that would add up fast over the years. if I did that for the 10 years I have been a working adult, it would be 78000 rounds. it does sound like a lot before doing some math but most people can swing 50 a week if that was their interest.
 
It surely can get very expensive over time. Since December 12th 09, I have shot 5058 through 2 Glocks and DD M4 rifle. About 2529 rounds each year as I track the date and amount of ammo fired through each gun on a spreadsheet. This is what happens when you have a CPA wife; the spreadsheet thing begins to rub on you. I can afford to shoot more but since I'm not a competitive shooter and do not belong to a shooting league, I cannot justify shooting more than 200 rounds at the range at a time. To me it will be a waste of $$$ on my part because the art of being able to defend oneself should not require thousands of rounds fired at range on monthly bases. If I was training for a competition then it will be a different case.
 
My Sw9ve has over 1200 rounds (no FTF or FTE ) And I have about 400 through my Taurus 617 ( only problems were ammo related) .
 
My post was not meant to prove that those shooters claims were not true, just that maybe for the average person who might only get to the range once a month if lucky, it was hard to imagine racking up that much ammo/costs going out the bbl.
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No offence taken on my part.....

Yes - those high rounds counts can be misleading..
No - they aren't out of line.

One of my Ruger .22/45's has ~ 150,000 rounds through it.
I shot three evenings a week and on Saturday. Sometimes, I'd shoot on a Sunday morning also.
Nearly each time I shot, I went through a brick of .22's.

I did that for about two years.
@ about 2k rounds a week, it adds up quick.

We (my wife and I) used to buy a couple of shopping carts full of .22 ammo at Dicks when it went on sale until they (Dicks) put a limit on how much we could buy at one time.

LOL!
I remember the expression on a guy at work's face when we were talking about people that have an "arsenal" at home. He leaned heavily anti gun. He believed there was no reason anyone should hae more than 100 rounds of ammunition.
He about dropped a load when I told him we try to keep between 25 to 100 thousand rounds all the time. :D
 
I don't keep track, just get more ammo when needed. I let my shelves get low but am building back up now that I am shooting with my daughter. When we go out to the range we may take 6 or 8 handguns and a like number of rifles. I bought it used, but my 1895 7mm Chilean Mauser may well have fired hundreds of thousands of rounds in the last 117 years. It had another box run through it on New Year's Day.

The Remingtom 742 Woodsmaster I got from my dad has had maybe 3-400 rounds through it in the last 40 or 50 years. I know that he saved the fired brass and put it back in the boxes, and he gave me about 300 rounds of brass with that rifle. He had that one for as long as I can remember, taking it deer hunting from at least the 1960s (maybe even earlier) until he stopped going out. It used to be my grandfather's rifle but he traded it to dad for his Model 94 Winchester .30-30 that my brother now has.
 
I can see where competitive shooters rack up round counts and know what they've shot, without really keeping track or logging it. Let's say a guy buys three cases of primers a year from the same vendor every year at a regional or state match. If he shoots that same gun every match and for practice he's going through 15,000 rounds a year with his match gun. 7 years, he's put 105,000 rounds through the gun.

I used to spend more time reloading and casting bullets than I spent shooting, but I shot a lot, and I did it pretty cheap. I had an annual membership at the local range, and I helped out with the IPSC club, so I shot the matches free. I bought 8# of 231 for $60 (8# lasts a long time) and bought primers by the case for like $70. Bullets were cast for free from wheel weights. I could shoot 5000 rounds a year for less than $200, not counting my time.
 
One of my buddies borrowed my Ruger MKII to take some kids shooting. He decided he should clean it before giving it back. He owns one and borrows guns from me occasionally/knows what he is doing so it wasn't a thing that worried me(if you borrowed my gun I probably wouldn't want you taking it apart though).
Anyways, he did a detail strip and clean of it. He couldn't believe how dirty it was. I run a patch or bore snake through it occasionally, but rarely more. I shoot the thing a ton, have never had any problems with it, and He was absolutely disgusted by it. I tried to figure out how many rounds I put through it since last cleaned(when I bought it used). I would bet over 10K and that was in about 18 months of in country time. By the time I statistically die, 50 years from now, I bet it has died after about 300,000 rounds. Although I got a single sic, so that will probably split the rounds out a bit.
 
Started 2011 with 3,300 rounds of 22 ammo, now have 13,600 rounds but my inventory shows I have bought 65,550 rounds. Funny how much ammo you can go through when you accept every challenge match that comes down the road. Same with my 2 M1's, one is a .308 and the other is the 30-06 and while I have doubled my inventory I only have half as much in my inventory as I bought. You would think battle packs would last longer, especially when you buy 4 or 5 at a time. :eek:

Don't even want to think about 20 gauge, I buy by the case and my inventory is in boxes. I need a pay raise or I need to get a reloader for 12 and 20. so far all I can load is .410 and 10 gauge because they are the most expensive.

When you don't drink, smoke do drugs and are single you have lots of time for shooting. 19 degrees today and I have a 22 match I have to shoot outside as soon as I sign off on the computer. :D
 
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