I would wager mine is the most screwed up schedule. Every other summer I will shoot one or two days during the time I am back in the States, maybe one box of shells total. I clean the gun and put it up until next year.

The summers I don't do that, I go hunting. The week prior to the hunt I go out maybe three times averaging a box of shells each time.

This year I hunted Dall's. Next year I buy a .375 H&H and shoot maybe two boxes of shells. Maybe one if it bites me. In 2006 I get serious for a week then go hunt buffalo.

Since I've big game hunted for over 40 years I have a lot of confidence in my ability to gets things done.

My biggest problem is trying to find a range in the Dallas area that will cooperate. I wanted to shoot at 200 before the sheep hunt. They moaned about how that wasn't possible because there was standing water from 150 out to 200. I told them I didn't care. They told me there were mosquitos and water moccasins thick from 150 to 200. I told them I didn't care. They said it would cost me double if I wanted to shoot at 200. I told them I didn't care.

Finally they quit bitching, I paid them double, and they let me get to work, although their attitude remained piss-poor. I never saw snake or mosquito, although I was spooked wading through knee deep water and thick grass.

With the .375 I won't have to worry about that. I'll shoot mostly at 50 then finish up at 100.

I shoot every week; sometimes several times a week (like once a day). I mostly pracrice standing at 200, sitting with a sling at 4-700 yards, and sitting with a bipod and sling sitting out to 850. I also dry fire everyday that I am home, which sometimes isn't a lot, but for learning trigger control, it can't be beat.

However, long range shooting has one big problem, and that is the wind. It is a four letter word in the world of shooting. You can talk about only shooting when the wind is calm, but I would like to see that place.

I shoot at rocks at long range; I can see the bullet splash and thus get feedback on the wind right after the shot.

i try to shoot as much as possible. i think i shoot over 3000rdns per year. i shot it all, rim fire center fire, muzzle loader and shot guns. i do as much gopher shooting and long range shooting as i can. i really like to set up milk jugs out to 700yrds and shoot them. i shoot at least 300rnds before a rifle sees the feild.

i need a good 22 to shoot even more.

I have a 100yd range off of the deck on my house. I alos have a range on the farm that is out to 500yds, and shoot at it several times a week. I also have a gun with me most all the time here on the farm, and tend to shoot 8-10 thousand rouonds of centerfire a year. This is counting both rifle and pistol. When in school, I worked at a sporting goods store, and had people drop more than $1000 in a gun and scope only to bring the gun back after deer season stateing that the gun was "bad" they had to hold off of target to hit. Then stateing that the gun had only been bore sighted by us at the store and then not shot untill a deer was in the sights. At the time, I had a very unsafe feeling when out in the woods with some of these people around. The more you shoot the better you are.

WELL,
Starting at age 12 I shot about 1000 rounds a week of 22 during most of the year until I got to age 18 or 19. Then I got into center fire and lots of handgun. became a cop and fired 500 rounds handgun a week for the next 7-8 years. Still keeping up on rifle also.
shoot everything from 12 feet to 1000yds regularly, for about 1000+ rounds a year.
quite honestly it makes the 400yd game shots ...not that difficult.