How Many Rounds do you Shoot a Week?

[hangnoose]

HOW MANY?

App 100-110 every wed at steel challenge practice, App 80-100 at bowling pin match 1 x a month, and informal practice app 2x a month that usually goes 2-300 rounds. My ammo costs would be impossible if I did not use cast. You DO NOT have to cast them yourself, and the dreaded "LEADING" you read about whenever cast ammo is brought up is a crock IMO. Yes I get a SMALL bit of lead build up around the forcing cone or frame top strap, that is much easier to remove than copper fouling in the barrel from jacketed ammo. You just need to keep an eye on it and stay on top of it. I have yet to see leading in MY barrels. If it happens, I BELIEVE there is something wrong with the load or loading process. If your bullets are falling into the brass, your cases are not being resized or flared correctly, OR you are using the wrong size bullets, RE-adjust your dies. Good luck. Yesterday I just bought # 1,000 200 gr cast swc 45 caliber boolits for 65$ from a fellow shooter that casts & rarely does not win every event he enters using his own cas boolits. I can NOT tell ANY difference in quality/appearance/performance in his cast vs factory cast. Do the math.

 

[Mushki]

Wow, I guess I don't shoot enough. I just began my annual winter time reloading. I have just under 8000 cases that I primed so I must shoot about 150 rounds per week. Sure I lost a few cases but I know I was given a few that I did not shoot so it all averages out. This does not include any rimfire or rifle rounds. The rifle round will be reloaded later on my brothers presses, he has a fully automated Dillon setup for .223 which makes things a plug play and sit back and drink a beer while keeping thing topped off and some checking thru the batch. If he didn't let me use it I would buy my own setup.

I have only reloaded lead bullets since they are the cheapest so I cannot say this for certain but I believe that any bullet can be loaded to be accurate if you just find the proper load (amount of powder) for the bullet. I'm took me a few different tries to find the correct load for 9mm but each of my other calipers gave good results on the first batch without leading. Now rifle bullets are a different animal and it seems the perfect load is always just out of reach but I'm fine with a sub MOA load.

 

[old&slow]

Around here there is usually some sort of local shoot every weekend from April to November. So, I usually go thru about 100 to 150 pistol rounds a weekend. Plus sometimes will do a 50 bird sporting clays course.
There's also 5 or 6 rifle shoots I try to get to a year,, usually about 50 rounds each.
November thru March is usually too cold for me and I just sit around and suffer from powder withdraw,,,

 

[Rick_A]

A couple hundred or so, but mostly out of these:

Before firearms I amassed a decent selection of airguns. They make for excellent, relatively quiet, inexpensive backyard range practice.

 

[Pigirondan]

100 .38 Special and then 50 of something else. I find that much more than that is wasteful because my accuracy drops off significantly after that many rounds.

 

[Collo Rosso]

I had off last Friday and me and my son went through 65 rounds of 308, 100 of 223, 150 of 9mm, 50 of 44mag and the same for 357mag. Fun day!

 

[SLT223]

Usually about 200-300, which is two range visits per week. Range time is $19/.5hr and $31/hr....it's getting a little expensive. I really need to a back yard shooting range. That would definitely accelerate my learning curve for working up new loads.

 

[Beancounter81]

Typically 200-300 pistol rounds per week in one range session.

 

[dickttx]

I am lucky, at the club I am a member of, after a $300 initial fee and a $100 per year membership fee, I can shoot from sunrise to sunset, 365 days per year.
Being old and pretty set in my ways I generally shoot three times per week. I have six 45 acp's ranging in size from a Colt Rail Gun to an Officers ACP. I take two of them with me for several trips, then change to another pair.
My favorites are actually two Commanders in 38 Super. When I have worked through all the 45's I switch to the Supers for several trips. I shoot 100 rounds each trip (50 per gun). I find that for me trying to shoot more than that on a trip usually leads to embarrassment.
When I get home I toss the empty brass in the vibrator. Next day I reload those and put them back on my ammo shelf in date order. I keep 1K of each caliber loaded and just pick up the oldest box on the end when I go to the range. My loads fit all my guns.

 

[Ceapea]

In the winter months, I shoot two to three rounds of PPC in a week. Some PPC practice (60 rounds/wk) and Defensive Pistol practice (100-150 rounds) every other week. Then there is Friday Fun Night, at another club. That is good for another 150-200 rounds. So I'm at about 300-550/week.
Summer months can be as much as 3-4 times that amount, what with outdoor 100-200 yd rifle practice, rifle league and competition shoots and several other various pistol regimens.

All of which would be 100% cost prohibitive without making my own rounds for everything ('cept 22lr) that I shoot.

 

[RussellD]

Bayou 124 TC groveless is an awesome, inexpensive alternative to jacketed bullets. Load to 1.13 COAL.

Data from Lyman 49 on the 124 TC grain will work.

A couple of personal favorites for this bullet are:

4.5 grains of WSF
4.5 grains of WST

 

[gaijin]

... I am wondering at 21 feet, will it really matter if I use them or regular Hornady Round nose?

At 7 yds., unless you're shooting aspirin, about anything will be sufficient.

I also shoot 200 rds.+- weekly. The vast majority of the shooting is USPSA or Steel Challenge.
"X Ring" Bullseye accuracy is not needed; therefore I shoot a LOT of lead coated bullets --The Blue Bullets
124 gr. RN 9mm and 200 gr. RN lead .45 ACP.
For match use I shoot 124 gr. JHP (Precision Delta) in 9mm and .38 Super, 230 gr. Ball in .45 ACP.

 

[jepp2]

Rounds per week can vary significantly if I am shooting rifles or handguns. So I tend to keep track on an annual basis. I don't count rimfire. My best year is 12,000 rounds of centerfire. I have shot as much as 750 rounds of 357 Mag in a single range visit. If I am shooting a 7mm Mag in the summer when heat is an issue, not so much. I try not to shoot more than 2 guns on a single visit for the time spent cleaning.

 

[Louchia]

In a weekly range trip I will usually shoot 50-75 38 spl and 100 22lr. Sometimes adding 20 rnds 9mm.

 

[Budasac]

Guys, I was thinking how many rounds a week do you shoot? I reload using Hornady Hap 115gr 9mm and been told those are designed for target. I am wondering at 21 feet, will it really matter if I use them or regular Hornady Round nose?

I been shooting 200 rounds a week and it seems a lot compared to what I been told most owners only shoot 200 a year! H

I shoot about 100-200 rounds of .45 a week and then another 50-9mm and 200-.22lr.

I current only reload the .45, when I get set up for .9mm I'm sure the round count will go way up.

 

[marathonrunner]

accuracy

At 7 yds., unless you're shooting aspirin, about anything will be sufficient.

I also shoot 200 rds.+- weekly. The vast majority of the shooting is USPSA or Steel Challenge.
"X Ring" Bullseye accuracy is not needed; therefore I shoot a LOT of lead coated bullets --The Blue Bullets
124 gr. RN 9mm and 200 gr. RN lead .45 ACP.
For match use I shoot 124 gr. JHP (Precision Delta) in 9mm and .38 Super, 230 gr. Ball in .45 ACP.

I feel me buying the HAP bullets from Hornady was a waste of money for just 21 feet. Maybe I should have bought a .22 target pistol instead but the thing I like about HAP it does seem to shoot straighter. Also, I am using PB IMR powder and the range is so narrow, 3.6gr to 4.1gr, using bullets that may not have strict tolerance I am thinking could cause high pressure if it seats too low. With power pistol's wide laditude I don't see that as a problem

 

[fredj338]

I feel me buying the HAP bullets from Hornady was a waste of money for just 21 feet. Maybe I should have bought a .22 target pistol instead but the thing I like about HAP it does seem to shoot straighter. Also, I am using PB IMR powder and the range is so narrow, 3.6gr to 4.1gr, using bullets that may not have strict tolerance I am thinking could cause high pressure if it seats too low. With power pistol's wide laditude I don't see that as a problem

The HAP bulet s no better or worse than most other jacketed bulets, no an issue. You need to do the load dev, regardless of the bullet. If you are only shooting 21ft, any bullet will do.

 

[marathonrunner]

any load will do

The HAP bulet s no better or worse than most other jacketed bulets, no an issue. You need to do the load dev, regardless of the bullet. If you are only shooting 21ft, any bullet will do.

My Walther PPQ is the most accurate gun I shoot with. Even outperforms my Glock 34 with all the match grade goodies. I am not that great of a shot past 35feet and seems 75ft is tough. Bench rest I guess at 75ft ok but free hand only combat accuracy .I can hit an 8x10 paper at that distance. The only gun I ever got good groups was a 1911.

 

[zelda]

l shoot 50rds every Thursday after work. l use 'Dad's Ammo' in my Mod 15 snubby,locally produced and the price is right too.

 

[poolie]

I get to the range once a weekend and shoot 100-150 rnds of 9mm.