I was just thinking. I reload more than anyone else I know. I coach a high school high power rifle team. Average 12 students year round. Shoot every Tuesday and Thursday after school.30 rounds per student per day x 36 weeks comes out to 25,920 rounds for practice during the school year. Matches through the year comes out to about 700rds per match times 10 matches
per year makes it 7,000(about) totals up to 32,920. Another 5000 for summer practice makes it 37,920 not counting Camp Perry. Make it easy 38,000+
We usually burn out a barrel somewhere before 5000 rounds.We run between 8 to 10 AR15 at a time
I think we will go through at least eight 8lb kegs of powder.
Before last year I did this all on single stage presses!

I shot roughly 22000 rounds of rifle, pistol, and shotgun ammo last year. All reloads.

You know we need to buy stock in some powder and bullet companies.

Depends on my activity...I haven't had to reload my regular hunting cartridges for several years, since I make between 200 and 1000 of them when I find the "right load", and generally never shoot more than 4 or 5 rounds per year, since Montana has started putting severe limits on the number of game taken.

For varmint rifles, I keep around 1000 loaded for each rifle, but since Montana decided to put black footed ferrets in the best PD villages, and outlawed shooting in them...that activity is also limited.

Right now I have three rifles waiting for the weather to get nice enough to spend a couple of weeks at the range working-up loads for them. I will probably go through 246 load of each powder and bullet choice for each rifle. So that would be a minimum of around 750 rounds, but probably closer to 1500.

Then I will load 500 for each.

For handguns, I have no idea...my .44 Magnum and heavy .357 Magnum loads see the same usage as my hunting rifle loads. The light .357 Magnum, .45ACP and 9MM loads are carry loads, and generally I run about 100 per month through those guns just to stay in practice. Again, I have several thousand of the handgun loads packed away.

When I was shooting trap I probably ran around 20,000 shells a year through the MEC loaders.

Probably at least 6,000 rounds/year of rifle ammo, another 1,000 of pistol ammo and thank God I don't reload shotguns.

15,000 to 20,000 on Average.Sometimes more.

You guys put me to shame. I thought I was doing
good at around 5000 rounds at varmints each year.

I used to shoot a lot more than I do now. I shot competition trap, skeet, and clays as well as handgun and a bunch of prairie dogs.

Now all I do is hunting rounds for birds and big game as shotshells have become dirt cheap for targets.

I'm now reloading less than 500 rounds a year and that's down from roughly 5,000 a year.

I have seven progressive presses that haven't made a shell in two years. That rockchucker just keeps a going however.

Geez Muzzle, I thought I was doing a fair amount at around 6 or 7 thousand.
All on a couple of single stage presses, but you are really rocking. I guess having the team and all, it's a necessary evil, but I believe those young-uns would be learning to reload under my watch.

I also shoot a whole bunch of different rifles to get to that number, as well as helping some friends with load development.....

Thanks for your contribution to the shooting sports by doing what you do with those youngsters--good stuff!

Regards--Don

I don't think I could give you an accurate count, however, I do keep an old 3 lb coffee can under each press to catch spent primers, and I dump each at least once a year.

Well I cannot even guess yet since I have only been doing this for about 4-5 months. Looks like around a couple thousand right now, but not all those spent primers have been reloaded yet. We will see after year one is gone. All thanks to this forum might I add.

About 9,000 per year, though mostly shotgun, now. Couple thousand low power loads for the kids, plinking rounds, varmint rounds. Not near as much as I used to, way too much work to be done.... Drat! Dutch.

A couple thousand a year. Would love to do more, but my wife would hang me from the press.

I will shoot 3000 plus round per year with my hunting rifles plus many rifles belonging to buddies who will not take the time to find that perfect load. I find those loads for them and give the information to them. This saves my barrels, and I still get to shoot. Another 1000 pistol rounds, another 2000 rounds on the skeet field. Good shooting.

Muzzle, I don't know what to say...
you loaded all that ammo for years on a single stage press for the joy of teaching kids to shoot.
You, sir are a SAINT!
I probably would have had several Team Loading Nights.

I'm just a light weight, last year was 1000 or less. The 5 years prior was 5-12K.
99% in .44special and 12 gage.

We live in a real rural area and transporting the kids around after the reloading sessions is near impossible. The kid that lives closest to me is nine miles up a mountain and the rest live further away than that. Every year when we start school I always have a lot of kids turn out and after a couple of weeks I schedule them to come up for a reloading session and teach them how to reload. Later on after high school they will know how to do it correctly.

Wow that is a bit of reloading. But I really wish I could have gone to that High school, or that I lived closer and could help out that sounds like lots of fun.

But I only reload about 1500 44mag and 500 45acp and maybe 100+ 338 win mag. of course thats probly going to go up now that I have a Dillion 650. Wish I would have bought one of those things sooner.

We've got a really good program here in Arizona for the juniors and our high school makes up about a 1/3 of the junior program. Over the last 20 years we've won the national championship in Rattle Battle (National Infantry Trophy Team) 16 times. We came in 2nd three times and 3rd once.
We're the only high school, high power team in the country.