Counting all the rounds you put down range in a year, whether target shooting, hunting, sighting in, etc, how much do you shoot?
Does anyone actually keep those kind of records?
At one time, I was shooting competitively and had my own range --out to 250 yds-- with the shooting bench right outside of my reloading shed but I don't really know how much I shot in a year.
Going on a Pdog shoot, I might shoot 1K of ammo over a three day period but that was the exception rather than the rule on my shooting. Also, using a single stage press, cranking out 1K of ammo takes some time.

Being retired, have opportunity to visit range near me that I'm a member basically whenever I feel like it. Weather permitting and etc. This is normally a couple of days a week. Sometimes more when prepping for the ranges monthly shooting competitions. Generally take three rifles to shoot.

So, I'd guess over 2,400 rounds a year.

LOL, this doesn't include the rimfire shooting with my 22 rifles.

I live 3 blocks from my pistol club/range. I'm there 3-5 times a week. Sometimes just for coffee

Rifles? I try to get to the outdoor range 1-3 times a month weather permitting.

Haven't been out woodchuck or deer hunting since pop passed in 2007.

Don't shoot any competition anymore so it's only sighting or load development for hunting and an occasional round of informal trap with the family. Probably works out to 100-200 rounds per year. When I shot completion it was that amount for each rifle and pistol per week.

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I live 3 blocks from my pistol club/range. I'm there 3-5 times a week. Sometimes just for coffee

Rifles? I try to get to the outdoor range 1-3 times a month weather permitting.

Haven't been out woodchuck or deer hunting since pop passed in 2007.

Rich, where are you in NY?? I am in Yonkers

In Queens. we usually shoot rifle at Calverton or sometimes Brookhaven(Ridge) on Long Island

I go to the range on Wednesday evenings. Have been doing it almost every week for the past 30 some years.

On a normal Wednesday, I'll shoot at least two cylinders of .38s and two clips of .45 acps offhand at 25 yds, 5 cast bullets offhand or sitting at 100 yds with my .300 Weatherby at 100yds, and another 4 full power rounds through the Bee at 400 m, then go to the Skeet range and shoot 100 targets.

When I was actively competing in registered Trap and Skeet shoots my shotshell count was around 10,000 shells per year.

Last year hunting, I shot one .300 Weatherby shell, and put one elk in my freezer.

Its hard to keep track of rounds, but I normally use a large tin of Imperial sizing die wax per year. I live 5 minutes away from the club ranges and have my own 1/2 mile rifle range.

Not that I keep an exact number but 13,700 would be real close for a year. About 8500 of that in practice for or weekend Cowboy Action Shooting.

As a young man it use to be over 500 / week.
It now is around 1300/ yr. small bore light recoil. roger

Probably less than 150 round a year hunting, counting squirrels and pest control. As scarce as squirrels have been on my place the last 4-5 years that number can just about be cut in half.

My range is about 50 feet from my back door so I'll shoot when the urge hits. Most of my shooting today is load development for old cartridges in old rifles so it takes a while but I never get in a hurry with it...takes some study too. Nowadays...probably around 1,500 rounds a year. 25 years ago...probably over 8,000 for practice and matches.

100 to 200 rounds with my .22 and with my center fire rifles, enough to keep them sighted in and the freezer full of meat and to put a small dent in the coyote population.

In college I shot hundreds of rounds a day. Today, I shoot at long range (600 yards or more) at least once per week. Shoot at gongs at 500 yards every Friday morning. Try and get to the range once a week to practice offhand and the sticks at 200 yards.

Recent PD shoot I probably shot over 1000 rounds.

I need to shoot more shotgun rounds; I bird hunt every week from Oct thru Feb, but rarely pick up a shotgun between then.

When it comes to long range shooting, it doesn't do a lot of good to go out once a month and shoot and shoot a lot; far better to go out once per week, that way you see four different set of conditions instead of one - unless you like to fool yourself and only shoot when it is calm.

After developing hunting loads for 20 years -- not much. Done except for tinkering, practicing and trying cast boolits. Way below 500 rounds per year now -- need to hunt!

I shoot about 4800 rounds of 22LR a year with competition and practice, 1000 - 1100 357 rounds, 500 3006, 500 358, so far in two months I have fired 40 rounds of 257, then there is the 223, 7mm, and 30-30. Those are the ones I shoot most often but I am not shooting as much as I like - too many projects going on so I only get to the range 8 - 10 times a month.

I have a couple of ranches within half an hour of the house and I shoot F class monthly so almost weekly I'm out shooting something.

Between practice, competition, load development and hunting, I do about 12 lbs of powder a year. I can't keep track of it by the number of rounds.

That's a good question before the ammo shortage min 100 of 22rf per week plus others so 5 to 7000 per yea.

Being that 22 ammo is sky high and I been stretching the stuff I brought cheaper 3000 rds per year.

I use to do several thousand shotgun rounds per year and a few PD trips some years it was 15 to 20 thousand

Slowed down a bit mainly high shot and reloading prices.

A few years ago, I would burn upwards of 8 lbs of powder a year...then things got busy.

But now, we are in our new house, and I have a 100, 200 & 300 yard range about 20 steps out my garage. If I take a 4 minute quad ride, I can shoot out to 1000 yards.

I might get back up to the 8lb level again soon.

Not nearly enough, an ARA shoot most months and one or two rounds in antelope season.

When not traveling for my favorite Uncle, I try to hit the local rifle range weekly. Local means 30+ miles, so I tend to shoot more than one caliber an outing.

Do load work-ups as well as practicing field shooting, so average round per week can run to 60+ centerfire. If I do pistol add another 40 -60 or so.

Don

I think I went to a rifle range twice in the last year. Once I fired around a hundred rounds. Last time I think I made 5 shots. Just can't walk the 100 yards to put up and take down targets anymore. It comes with age and arthritis. I have been to the pistol indoor range with my suppressed Ruger several times and totally enjoy that as the targets are on pulleys with electric motors. Can't understand why I waited so long to suppress a .22. Pure pleasure to shoot with no noise. (I wear an aid in one ear and the other one isn't much better)
Getting old just isn't much fun when parts wear out.

In the 16 years before I became too disabled to shoot at all I fired over 422,600 DOCUMENTED rounds in cast bullet benchrest, DCRA Full-bore (high power) across-the-course shooting, jacketed bullet benchrest, RF benchrest, varmint hunting, and doing elk control work for the State of Oregon. That includes none of my pistol shooting or bird hunting as they weren't rifle rounds, and none of my personal big game rifle hunting shots.

You might say that for at least 16 years I lived to shoot and hunted to live.

It's been a great ride, and I'm damned depressed that it is now all over.

I made the bullets, loaded the ammo, and PAID CASH for the components for almost every one of those shots except the full-bore/Palma competition, which the Government of Canada provided the ammo for.

Load,bullets development and scope changing amount to about 200+ rounds,,trying to shoot out the barrels of 30 Gibbs and 308 add 1000!

Plinking with 458 and 358 another 100 or so rounds.

pistols and 22's probably 1000 or so.

Trapping,hunting,yard work (squirrels & brown bears) a couple of hundred.

AC, I have said it before, but your memoir would be closely read by many here!

Thanks for the compliment, Bill, but shooting almost half a million rounds of rifle ammo is no more exciting than shooting 1,000 rounds in the same 16 years as many, many here have done.

Mainly it is just plain hard work (and of course enjoyment), attempting to perfect your skills and knowledge for competition, hunting, etc.

And it plays bloody hell with marriages, social life and being there for pets, kids, all the other things that also count heavily in this world. All "professional" athletes pay the same price, except NFL players who also have to pay even more with destroyed bodies and shortened life expectancies.

Take care Bill...always glad to hear your take on everything. You're a good man.

Lloyd

Shooting is a pleasure for me. I don't play golf, played Tennis until my knee said no more. I shoot three days a week, weatheer permiting. I have 6 grandsons a son and son-in-laws a grandaughter who all have rifles to get ready. I also shoot many buddies rifles who don't take the time to do it right but want a finely tuned rifle. 2,500 to 3,000 rounds per year would cover my shooting, some years more some less. I shoot from .223 up to 50 Bmg, most are Elk chamberings from .270 WSM up to .358 STA. My African rifles are .416 Rem and Rigby. I couldn't do this much shooting if Nosler didn't sell blems. I have my own shooting benchs, Chronograph all my rounds and record all perttainant information and count each and every shot for each rifle. The only time I have compeny is just before Deer and Elk season, then all the experts come around to shoot their 3-5 shots per year and think they are ready, and tell me how to do it. Good shooting.

I'm retired, so have the time available.

I shoot shotgun, International Skeet, and the occaisional round of Trap 3-4 days a week depending on the hunting schedule. I'd shoot more but the shotgun range is only open on Wednesday & Friday afternoons, all-day Saturday & Sunday morning. Probably shoot anywhere between 12,000-15,000 shotgun shells per year. When I was younger I used to freeze my butt off during the seriously cold off-season on the shotgun range too, but have forgone that pleasure lately; and just dress warmer while hunting.

During the spring & summer season also shoot on Tuesday afternoons; shotgun again - both Trap & Skeet (German Hunting Shooting, gun down position) plus 50-100 or so .222 Remington at the Roe Buck, Fox, Pig & Running Boar Targets. I load at least 2,000 .222 Remington per year, normally in 500 round batches. Usually also participate in 5-6 Saturday or Sunday tournaments and then the German National Championship in September for this discipline.

All of this dependant on the hunting schedule which is pretty intensive also, since we hunt the better part of the year; 'cept for February - April. Also usually at least one major jaunt abroad, either here in Europe or Namibia/RSA, even if it's culling which actually involves more ammo than Trophy hunting.

Also have a membership at an indoor pistol range; so when there's a spare evening available shoot, 22lr, 38 Spl. pistol & revolver at targets, too, but 500 of each would be a good year's total.

Loaded 200 each 9.3x62 & 300 Weatherby last year and only had a handful of both left over at the end of the season, but do have to admit I'm a Zero Junkie so usually shoot a confirming shot or perhaps 1-2 3-shot groups prior to hunting to ensure the Boomer is spot-on. Takes it toll on the grand total.

I'm fortunate that I've got a solid relationship with a gun shop that has their own two lane 100 meter range, so I can pop over there during his opening hours to do some zero confirmation or load testing.

Other than an annual or semi-annual sailing trip/charter I do nothing else but shooting or hunting and somehow can't imagine my life otherwise. I gave up skiing which I really enjoyed simply because there isn't enough time remaing to spread myself even thinner - oh, yeah, I do have a wife, too. When I meet my hunting buddies socially their standard joke is the Agency I rent her from sends the same one every time!

I shoot nearly every night after work and days off. Skip when working nights. I'm on my third string in two years.
I also shoot guns sometimes.

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Other than an annual or semi-annual sailing trip/charter I do nothing else but shooting or hunting and somehow can't imagine my life otherwise. I gave up skiing which I really enjoyed simply because there isn't enough time remaing to spread myself even thinner - oh, yeah, I do have a wife, too. When I meet my hunting buddies socially their standard joke is the Agency I rent her from sends the same one every time!

Why do I totally understand this?

WH,

Don

More than I thought! Like many of you, time that used to be spent at the loading and shooting bench has gone to work and kids kids ball games and such. I was surprised to see though after checking the log book that I have managed over 500 rounds this year mostly load development for friends and pests and a little of my own paper punching. 15-20 years ago I would have been out for my 2nd p-dog run by now with 2k-3k down range. Whether it's better components or just experience I shoot better now than I ever have.