slickracer
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Steel targets
Looks and sounds like a hoot! Wish I had enough land to make a range like that. I'd shoot even more.I am a member of SASS and attend cas shoots monthly at a small club in eastern NC about 2 hours drive away. We rent a big bay at a great local range and have a shed there to store our steel and props. Our match consists of about 60 rifle, 60 pistol and 25 sg rounds, more if it’s a Wild Bunch match. As I live in the country I can check my reloads off the deck on my backyard range. I usually shoot 50 rds or so preceding the match just to check whatever firearms that I’m using for the shoot. Before the cold set in I was shooting my Model 52 .22 about 30 rds almost daily. I like shooting steel, poking holes in paper has never interested me much. This is how my ‘range’ looks.
Being prudent is how I seem to be without knowing it,lol. I love shooting, just not shooting all day everyday. I get bored with it, my son and dad do as well, around an hour every week or month is just fine with us.
I didn’t mean scared about the end of the world, just if someone felt they’d realistically run out of supplies before this mess settles down, I’d love to have a warehouse full of stuff, but I’d never go through it in 40 lifetimes.
When this train wreck of ammo and component zombies waiting in line, having 100 websites open at 5am,etc calms. I’ll buy stuff again, but I’m not losing any sleep over it now. You’d think with how this stuff is nearly unobtainable, the whole country would be stocked to the point of shifting the earth’s rotational axis.
It’s wild how many items, not just firearm related are more difficult to come by now, ever think dishwashers would be hard to find? I now know someone having that problem.
My usual consumption is 20k pistol rounds per year. That's called training, not work. If you don't get it, that's your privilege. I have cut that in half since the pandemic/panic hoarding and buying started. This allows me to keep my skill set honed and conserve my ammo. With what I have on hand, I'll be good to go for the next two years. By then, things should be back to normal or it won't matter.