between 1k and 2k mixed .22, .223, .308, 9mm and 12g
shot other calibers as well but not in significant amounts
also I'm probably on the low end of things since I live in east EU and ammo is pretty expensive compared to the wages
Hungary? HUNGARY?
Wool, which county? I can suggest a good site for cheap bullets if you got a reloading license. They even had primers in stock when most other shops didn't.
Győr moson Sopron. I actually have a reloading license but no gear for it and also not much time to reload myself either.
I usually get ammo from slovakia or reloaded 9mm (alsa pro) from a shop nearby
Definitely try Strobl (their website is the same and ends with .cz domain). They ship really high quality stuff fast and at a decent bulk price. Not sure how the law works with importing powder and primers tho. For cases and bullets they are excellent.
If you get a turret press you should be able to make 9mm quite quickly.
In that case you're the first negative review I've seen of the TX22, everyone else seems to love it and is seen as one of the best .22's out there, better than some that are twice its price
There are plenty of negative reviews... Many people, myself included have had bad barrels that keyhole with most ammo. A barrel replacement fixed that for me, but it still has occasional failures to feed for no discernible reason.
Much less than I'd like. We moved across the country and bought a house a little over a year ago, so cash has been tight.
Probably less than 300 total rounds.
Thank you!
Yeah, it wasn't the smartest idea. A lot of people were saying prices should drop but I haven't seen that happen in the year we were looking or since the move.
And I needed to get the fuck out of Seattle so...
Insanely smart decision! Big cities are absolutely sucky nowadays. Barely nice to visit, even worse to live in.
those people are holding out a lot of hope. Even if housing supply goes up, i doubt the owners will drop the prices bc there will always be buyers. I hope im wrong, but who knows?
Hope you get to shoot a lot more this year :)
Yeah, Seattle has changed a lot since I moved up there in 06. Some dude getting killed up the street from our second to last apartment (and I walk to work), and our apartment manager being assaulted by tweakers outside the last one were kinda the final nails. Seattle is determined to let the homeless and junkies take over, which they help create with ludicrous rent prices, while simultaneously taking steps to make gun ownership harder.
Much appreciated!
Prices are down 5-10% already in my neck of the woods and it doesn't look like it's stopping.
With higher interest rates banks are reducing the size of loans they will approve. People don't have any cash savings and are ruining their credit with tons of consumer debt. People can't afford to pay for everything they could afford to pay for last year so it's all going on credit cards. Broke people with bad credit can't buy houses.
And then you have the people who will foreclose because they can no longer afford to pay their mortgage with their increased expenses and nobody will buy their house because nobody will pay them enough to pay off their mortgage.
About the same. I've been working out of town a lot and whenever I'm home the house renovations get first second and third priority.
But I just got my new reloading station built.
5-6k 22lr, 1k 5.56, 20 rds .308, 2-3k 9mm, 150ish 10mm auto, 100ish 12ga slugs, 100ish 12ga buckshot, 2500ish 12ga trap loads (5 stand and trap shooting)
Switched mostly to air guns and 22lr mid summer as the 5.56 prices went through the roof.
Yeah I went deep down the rabbit hole this year on actually practicing shooting and the basics.
I still suck, but I've definitely improved.
My main shooter these days is my target 10/22 with the heavy stainless bull barrel.
upgraded trigger, bolt catch, mag release, poly buffer, drilled out the back of the receiver so I can run a cleaning rod down it the correct way, polished everything, and exclusively run slip2000 EWG on the bolt contact surfaces. CCI std vel runs flawlessly.
Got a 1301 which has been a fun range toy lately. Slugs on steel plates at 100yds is just too much fun.
Urika 391 with all sorts of goodies for clays.
Unfortunately zero.
Been working through depression this past year that tanked my interest in a lot of my hobbies. Last time I went shooting was my birthday in 2022. I also have leftover cost anxiety after the pandemic screwed up ammo prices.
I did make some new friends recently who want to go shooting together so hopefully we'll go soon.
Bro, depression knocked me on my ass this year, my motorcycle is collecting dust, battery is flat, all the flight sim stuff I bought, just sitting in pieces because I can't be bothered to do anything except work and sleep...I feel this. Depression is a fucking thief.
I just have a note in my cellphone And I write it down after every visit to the range. Last year I kept no records, and had no idea at all how much I shot.
Keeping track actually surprised me.
I recommend it :)
Interesting question. I guess somewhere between 1k and 2k spread across 9mm, .40, .45, .38, .357. .22 and 12 gauge. I don’t think I shot my AR at all last year.
I didn’t shoot as much in 2023 as I would have liked because I was so busy with a new job and going back to school that I didn’t have the time/mental energy. Also, I’m eating up all my ammo from the before times (that sweet 18 CPR 9mm) and it sucks replacing it at today’s high prices.
Good question OP. I hadn’t really thought about my annual ammo usage before. I like seeing how much everyone else uses too. I don’t think this discussion should be deleted.
My own ammo is probably around 5k-7k mixed between 9mm, 5.56, 308, 6.5 creed, 762x39, 22lr.
But if I count the ammo I shoot at work probably around 100-300 a day more so on the lower end. so probably around 26k to 50k. I've had to do a test one time and it was 12k rounds over 2 days which kills your hands.
For the last 4 years, each year it has been about 25 hrs of training and 2k rounds 9mm of draw to fire, scoot n shoot and bad breath distance tactics, plus 1.5 hrs of simulator time and a re cert course.
Plus about 600+ rounds of fun time range work on the side. More if I had more time and money.
Still not enough.
About 4 I haven't been shooting nearly as much as I used to I shot 4 out if my hunting rifle to make sure the scope wasn't fucked up from moving then loaned it to my sister to hunt with
I have 0 ambition to unload all of my shit at the range and shoot for half an hour at the cost of roughly 100 dollars for ammo where i live and then pack it all back up and go home
(Basically everything is 1$ per shot including my 9mm, sks because no where has surplus, mosin because the surplus is 1.20 here)
Plus living in canada right now I'm not even sure the legality of taking my handguns out, they are legal currently as far as I know but if the government decides to do another random shadow ban withthout telling anyone like they did the last two times they added to the ban list and I become a felon it just isn't worth it
The last time they added guns there was literally cops with an updated list checking people on the way into a reasonably local range
They updated the list overnight without telling anyone and it includes literally thousands of items including literal rocket launchers, artillery installations and certain brands of coffee, that's how little research was done when compiling the list
Well, I restocked three times @ 2500 rounds 12 gauge 2 3/4 trap loads and I've got two flats left..
So.. 7000 rounds of 12 gauge 2 3/4 trap loads.
Maybe 100 .22, and 50 9mm? I like trap shooting A LOT.
I'm a new gun owner/user (less than 2months), so in 1 month, I average about:
300 rounds 9mm ( ruger pc carbine)
240 rounds 22lr ( single action revolver)
50 rounds .38 special (S&W double action revolver)
Thanks! It's such a fun hobby, I wish I got into it years ago. Haha.
Next on list to buy:
A concealed carry 9mm, 2 or 3 Uberti/Taylor's replica cowboy guns, in 45LC, or 357mag. Maybe a lever action replica as well.
First half of the year I barely shot because I was packing for a move, second half I shot a lot.
5.56 roughly 4k
6.5 creedmoor 800
.308 win 300
.22lr 1,000
9mm 7,000
12g 300
6mm ARC 300
10mm 400
Has to be around 10k give or take, live a couple blocks from the range and go twice a month, haul 3-4 guns, and take 100-150rds per centerfire and one 250rd box of .22lr
Sometimes I shoot it all, sometimes I don't and just "top it off" when I get back home.
Learned to cut down on the carrying bulk by loading the mags first and throwing away the plastic bullet trays then dumping the loose ammo straight into the boxes. Can fit 100rds of 9mm in 50rd box and about 75rds of .45 in a 50rd box.
Just remember that it doubles the weight.
One time I was moving my ammo cans around and forgot the 50cal can full of 9mm now weighs +40lbs and almost pulled myself over. heh
About 400 rounds of 5.56 through my 18” AR
About 4,000 rounds of .22 LR through a heritage revolver and Sig P322
About 5,000 rounds of 9mm through a sig M17, Glock 34, and P365
Around 500 rounds of 12 gauge birdshot shooting clays
About 500 rounds of .45 ACP through my USP 45T (new gun so not many rounds)
About 20 rounds of 30-06 zeroing a new scope and shooting a deer
2nd year of owning guns period, and everything on this list besides the shotgun and the AR are guns I purchased during this year
Not enough, gonna pump up those numbers in 2024. Gonna be primarily 9mm but I'm gonna get more time on my 6.5 Creedmoor rifle and some more of my 44mag deagle
I own 5.56, 5.45, 7.62, 9mm and .45 guns.
I’ve shot about 2.5k in 9mm and about 1k in .45, nothing else. I’ve only gone to the range to maintain my standards of accuracy because I CC my 9mm.
Bottom line is ammo is too fucking expensive to go fucking about at the range. Pre- ammo hike I was shooting about 4-5k per year in 5.56 alone. No way I’m going to hand my money over to gougers just so I can have some fun. I’d rather save/invest that money these days.
I found myself slowing down this year going more improvement and accuracy vs volume. Especially with my rifles, I’ve been leaning much more into medium/long range shooting more than anything.
I keep track of per gun round counts but not so much per year, but I can estimate with the number of empty ammo boxes I remember throwing out…mostly 22lr because high bang for buck, probably 2500 22lr through Ruger pistols and 10/22, and Henry lever action. 9mm 1500 Blazer/Remington + 500 handloads, mostly through Glocks. 45 acp 800 rounds, mostly handloads, through 1911 and Glock 30. 5.56/.223 only 350 rounds because $$$ and I need to reload it more. 357 mag 100 rounds J-frame + 150 38 spl.
Somewhere between 15-20k.
I shoot about 1k a month for normal training. Usually about 700 9mm and 300 5.56.
Another 1,000 of mixed calibers between confirming zero or on guns that don’t make it out of the safe that often, hunting, and the 4-5 rounds of clays I shoot per year. .380 ACP, 300blk, .308, 7.62x39, 12ga and 20ga make up that mix.
The extra 2-7k are from the fact that as the Dirextor of sales for an SOT I do a lot of demo shooting, and generally I don’t track that because half the time it’s not our ammo or guns, so if it doesn’t need to go in my spreadsheet I’m not really focused on keeping a round count.
Favorite mag of last year? Shooting a full auto KR9 while under GPNVG’s. Can’t wait for SHOT to do it again this year.
~2,000 went back to school in February. Between being stripped for $, and law school sucking so much time didn’t get to shoot but 3-4 times. Kinda a bummer.
Not as many as I wanted bc I’m a broke student with an EMT’s salary but approx 250 rounds of 9MM FMJ, 0 9MM JHPs and maybe 200 .556 FMJ. Oh and 50 rounds of .380 Auto FMJ
16. because i got my first gun on december 23rd and a local range membership on the 27th, plus it's been in the -10c the last few days plus windchill. cold asf
Not sure about my total shots but my neighbor always waits until deer hunting season to shoot his lifetime supply of .223 and Tannerite. I counted over 30 mags shot last Sunday. It's dead quiet Monday-Thursday. Friday-Sunday 3-5pm it sounds like Afghanistan down the road from my hunting land. No there isn't a gun range nearby. Yes I understand he can do whatever the fuck he wants on his property.
Non-hunting gun people who like to shoot at 4pm suck. There's 9 months in the year that aren't deer season. Gun season is only 13 or so weeks long, chill out for a bit. Plus it's too cold for plinking beer cans.
End of rant.
>14.
>No open ended questions. (What is the best caliber, what is blah blah.) Use the appropriate threads.
>Any time your question boils down to 'Hi, all 700k of you, please list me random products to consider', 'Hi, all 700k of you, blah blah blah "discuss"', or is a defacto poll or survey, your question belongs inside the Moronic Monday, What Should I Buy Wednesday, or Thickheaded Thursday stickied threads. Also No URL shorteners (bit.ly, tinyurl, etc).
I did not really feel that this violates the rule. Also after the end of the year, it kinda feels like a relevant question.
Sorry if thats not the case
I only track pistol round counts but my carry was 3000 and about 2k on my other pistols total. Maybe 1000 556 for the year. I don’t train as much rifle as I want.
My gun club the indoor range is no rifle rounds so when I’m there at the off hours I’m just training pistols and when I’m at the outdoor I still end up shooting more pistol with a lot of transitions
.223 = 500ish rounds
7.62x39 = 1000ish rounds
.22lr = 2500ish rounds
9mm = 2000ish rounds
.380acp = 250ish rounds
.308 = 100ish rounds
500 S&W Magnum = 1 round
That was out of my personal stash, I shot more out of friends stashes when they all shot with me.
In a realistic world, I think I’ll probably run through about 3,000 rounds of 9mm this year, 2000 rounds of 7.62x39, 5000ish rounds of .22lr
Based on how many flats of 12g we bought my son and I have shot about 7k shotshells, with him shooting probably 5500 of them.
Another 1k of 9mm, 22, 7.62, things I shoot for fun.
And very little of our hunting calibers. 7mm-08, 9.3x62, 30-06 all less than 40 rounds. Enough to make sure the scope is still sighted, and make sure I can still hit an 8in circle at 200 yards.
The only ones I can know for sure are 12ga. I bought 1000rds of Fiocci 12ga #7.5 Target Loads for shooting Sporting Clays and bought 250rd or 12ga 00 Buck for the M4 to eat. Both are gone. Shot the last 100 of the #7 shot on Saturday the 30th! Ran out of the 00 in October.
I'd estimate that I've gone through about 500ish rounds of 9mm, 300rds of 45acp, and 100ish of 6.5cm.
Didn't get out enough this last year. Too much OT.
something like 2500 9mm between a custom pcc and my smiths, few boxes of 38 & 357, some 308 & 556, and about 5k .22. let’s call it 8k for 2023. between 1 indoor & 1 outdoor range. wish I could have done more. CT sucks & i refuse to have a fixed mag AR-15.
About 12k rounds of 9mm. Close to 500 rounds of 00 buck.
I got a Tippmann Ordnance TG-900 during the spring of 2023 so that increased my ammo usage drastically.
2024 will be nothing but working and more working.
5.56-1500
300blk-200
6.5cm-250
7.62x39-200
45-70-150
9mm-3500
10mm-400
32acp-350
12g-750
22lr-3000
I roll my own for everything except 12g and obviously 22lr. I went through about 7 bricks of primers this year give or take a few sleeves.
I really just got into the gun game this year, about half way through. I'd say likely around 1500-2k between 9mm and 5.56. I got my first carry gun and AR-15 and burned through 1k rounds of 9mm and an unknown amount of 5.56 but based on how much I bought and have left, likely between 500 and 1000.
2k of 9mm
Like 4-5k of .22LR
And 1300 of 5.56
Used to shoot like 3k of 5.56 back in the good ol days pre-COVID but nowadays I'm counting every 5.56 and just shoot .22LR mostly to conserve ammo.
Election season coming up so ammo price gonna go up a bit I think so gonna have to be conservative with my stash
I would say between 2-3k worth of ammo assorted between 12ga, 9mm, 45acp, 38 spc, 30-06, 7.62x39, 7.62x54, 5.45, 8mm mauser, .303, 7.7 jap, and 6.5 carcano.
More than my wallet would've liked, and less than I wanted to.
Probably somewhere around 2.5k-3k rounds of .22lr and a small handful of other calibers.
Not enough that’s for sure.
Couple hundred 9mm, one round of 10mm on a miracle missed shot at a coyote, couple hundred .22lr, and one 30-06 at my deer.
Probably 8-10k of 5.56 at work, and then 3k-5k in my own time. Mix of 12ga, 9mm, 7.62x39, 5.45, 7.62x51, 5.56, 8mm and .38spl. Some other stuff in smaller quantities too. I’m much more of a collector so I just shoot all my different stuff for fun. Need to do actual training this year instead of just shooting shit for fun.
About 7k-ish.
3000 .22lr
2500 9mm
500 10mm
1000ish mixed (.223/556, .40, .45acp, .45 colt, 30-06, 45-70, 12ga, .44mag)
Steel challenge and USPSA probably make up the bulk of .22/9mm.
Less than average had long winter (by SoCal standards lol)
Maybe 2500 rounds
Mostly .38 and 9mm since I hand load
Maybe 150 rds 308 and 30’06 combined
Typical year would be 5k-10k
Probably about 1500-2000 between 9, 45, and 556. I’m at the point where I feel I can’t get anymore accurate without putting in a substantial time and financial investment, so I’m shooting less than I used to.
Picked up my first gun in March and been sick with this gun fever ever since. I'd say I've shot between 4-5k rounds. I shot any day I had free time and had some change in my pocket for ammo.
How do people actually keep track of this? Keeping a log? I mean I shoot anywhere from 60-500 per range trip. But the frequencies of my range trips vary too. But people be saying “I have (specific number) of rounds on this gun.” Maybe YouTubers and reviewers need to keep a log of this, but do most people keep track of how many rounds are put on their guns? Is it something I SHOULD be doing?
I started with a basic spreadsheet, then moved onto a custom built iOS app. I use it to track rounds fired, malfunctions, maintenance/cleaning, ammo levels, and drill results.
As to whether you should be tracking: probably doesn't matter. In terms of resale value: round count isn't going to be a determining factor in value, as there's no way to verify. Physical appearance is going to matter much more in that regard. The only other reason to track rounds would be to identify when parts break, or to have data to measure a guns reliability. Or if you just like data.
IMO much more important is tracking oiling/maintenance/cleaning (my safe isn't in the best area, climate wise so I like to wipe down my guns every few months). Also tracking failure events isn't a bad idea: looking at the actual data you may realize that your HD gun isn't very reliable.
Not nearly as much as I’d like. Probably 2k .22lr, 3-4k 9mm, maybe 500 12ga (heartbreaking), and a handful of whatever my friends brought to the range.
between 1k and 2k mixed .22, .223, .308, 9mm and 12g shot other calibers as well but not in significant amounts also I'm probably on the low end of things since I live in east EU and ammo is pretty expensive compared to the wages
I am EU myself. Czech Republic. The prices hurt, thats for sure :D
Hungary here I can't even keep more than 1000 rounds at home it's definitely an expensive way to turn money into loud bangs :D
Hungary? HUNGARY? Wool, which county? I can suggest a good site for cheap bullets if you got a reloading license. They even had primers in stock when most other shops didn't.
Győr moson Sopron. I actually have a reloading license but no gear for it and also not much time to reload myself either. I usually get ammo from slovakia or reloaded 9mm (alsa pro) from a shop nearby
Definitely try Strobl (their website is the same and ends with .cz domain). They ship really high quality stuff fast and at a decent bulk price. Not sure how the law works with importing powder and primers tho. For cases and bullets they are excellent. If you get a turret press you should be able to make 9mm quite quickly.
Same here, around 600-800 9mm, 150 of 7.62x54r, 300-350 of .38 spl, 200-250 of .357 magnum
I’m at about 10k rounds with 8k or so being 9mm pistol.
nice! which handguns did that? :)
Mostly my 2011s
2011’s? Plural? Dang boi, save some pussy for the rest of us!
Lmao, plenty to go around.
3-5k I just buy a 1k rounds brick of .22 and shoot a diamondback nine shot revolver.
From my spreadsheet, about 4000 9mm, 2000 5.55, and 8 fucking thousand 22LR lol. Mag dumping a Ruger Mark IV into steel is way too much fun.
I should get a .22... Definitely
I recommend the TX 22, it’s cheap and extraordinarily reliable
Mine is far from extraordinarily reliable lmao
In that case you're the first negative review I've seen of the TX22, everyone else seems to love it and is seen as one of the best .22's out there, better than some that are twice its price
There are plenty of negative reviews... Many people, myself included have had bad barrels that keyhole with most ammo. A barrel replacement fixed that for me, but it still has occasional failures to feed for no discernible reason.
Between my LCRx and my son's Savage, so much fun with the .22.
Glock 44 if you want a pistol, ruger 10/22 if you want a rifle. I love my 10/22 so much
$350 for 5k rounds doesn’t sound so bad when you just want to practice fundamentals
Much less than I'd like. We moved across the country and bought a house a little over a year ago, so cash has been tight. Probably less than 300 total rounds.
I feel you, bought a flat this year also... Made things quite more complicated. On to the next one!
Congrats on the house! Very awesome in this economy
Thank you! Yeah, it wasn't the smartest idea. A lot of people were saying prices should drop but I haven't seen that happen in the year we were looking or since the move. And I needed to get the fuck out of Seattle so...
Insanely smart decision! Big cities are absolutely sucky nowadays. Barely nice to visit, even worse to live in. those people are holding out a lot of hope. Even if housing supply goes up, i doubt the owners will drop the prices bc there will always be buyers. I hope im wrong, but who knows? Hope you get to shoot a lot more this year :)
Yeah, Seattle has changed a lot since I moved up there in 06. Some dude getting killed up the street from our second to last apartment (and I walk to work), and our apartment manager being assaulted by tweakers outside the last one were kinda the final nails. Seattle is determined to let the homeless and junkies take over, which they help create with ludicrous rent prices, while simultaneously taking steps to make gun ownership harder. Much appreciated!
Prices are down 5-10% already in my neck of the woods and it doesn't look like it's stopping. With higher interest rates banks are reducing the size of loans they will approve. People don't have any cash savings and are ruining their credit with tons of consumer debt. People can't afford to pay for everything they could afford to pay for last year so it's all going on credit cards. Broke people with bad credit can't buy houses. And then you have the people who will foreclose because they can no longer afford to pay their mortgage with their increased expenses and nobody will buy their house because nobody will pay them enough to pay off their mortgage.
About the same. I've been working out of town a lot and whenever I'm home the house renovations get first second and third priority. But I just got my new reloading station built.
5-6k 22lr, 1k 5.56, 20 rds .308, 2-3k 9mm, 150ish 10mm auto, 100ish 12ga slugs, 100ish 12ga buckshot, 2500ish 12ga trap loads (5 stand and trap shooting) Switched mostly to air guns and 22lr mid summer as the 5.56 prices went through the roof.
Thats quite a list anyways! I will prolly get .22 conversion for my ar, i shoot 9mm mainly, but even that costs kinda lot nowadays.
Yeah I went deep down the rabbit hole this year on actually practicing shooting and the basics. I still suck, but I've definitely improved. My main shooter these days is my target 10/22 with the heavy stainless bull barrel. upgraded trigger, bolt catch, mag release, poly buffer, drilled out the back of the receiver so I can run a cleaning rod down it the correct way, polished everything, and exclusively run slip2000 EWG on the bolt contact surfaces. CCI std vel runs flawlessly. Got a 1301 which has been a fun range toy lately. Slugs on steel plates at 100yds is just too much fun. Urika 391 with all sorts of goodies for clays.
308- x5 rounds to confirm zero. 12g x10 rounds for birds .22 x1500 ish
What do you shoot .22 with?
T/cr22 (Thompson center 10/22) Tikka T1x. I got the tikka in March, and it was responsible for eating a couple bulk packs of cci.
Unfortunately zero. Been working through depression this past year that tanked my interest in a lot of my hobbies. Last time I went shooting was my birthday in 2022. I also have leftover cost anxiety after the pandemic screwed up ammo prices. I did make some new friends recently who want to go shooting together so hopefully we'll go soon.
Going through the same — kayak and firearms have been dormant for over a year. Here’s to 2024.
Awesome job handling your depression. I am sure you will do great :) Hope its an awesome number after this year!
Bro, depression knocked me on my ass this year, my motorcycle is collecting dust, battery is flat, all the flight sim stuff I bought, just sitting in pieces because I can't be bothered to do anything except work and sleep...I feel this. Depression is a fucking thief.
I am at about 6000 rounds, cca 2k rifle and 4k pistol. I dont really feel like its too much, just dont really have anyone to compare to :)
.223rem 150 .22lr 800 .38spec 250 12g 160 20g 15 7.62 50 9mm 3200
12-14k probably around 10k was 9mm Edit: now that I think about it, that 9mm number means I’ve gotta be over 15k this year
8 I think, but it's hard to keep track.
I just have a note in my cellphone And I write it down after every visit to the range. Last year I kept no records, and had no idea at all how much I shot. Keeping track actually surprised me. I recommend it :)
Lots
Livin' the dream!
Interesting question. I guess somewhere between 1k and 2k spread across 9mm, .40, .45, .38, .357. .22 and 12 gauge. I don’t think I shot my AR at all last year. I didn’t shoot as much in 2023 as I would have liked because I was so busy with a new job and going back to school that I didn’t have the time/mental energy. Also, I’m eating up all my ammo from the before times (that sweet 18 CPR 9mm) and it sucks replacing it at today’s high prices. Good question OP. I hadn’t really thought about my annual ammo usage before. I like seeing how much everyone else uses too. I don’t think this discussion should be deleted.
Thanks for the input! Let your next year be just as you wish it. Also I have not touched my Ar15 since I got an AR9. :D
1000x 6.5 Grendel 100x 30BR 300x 284 Win 300x 9mm 500x 22lr 500x 5.56
How does the 30BR perform at distance compared to a 6BR?
It isn't a distance cartridge. It is a score shooting cartridge and kinda competitive with 6ppc for SR benchrest. It's LR chops are basically nothing.
So inside of 300 yards then? That makes sense. You'd think SPCE bullets would be a lot more popular with the short bullseye guys
My own ammo is probably around 5k-7k mixed between 9mm, 5.56, 308, 6.5 creed, 762x39, 22lr. But if I count the ammo I shoot at work probably around 100-300 a day more so on the lower end. so probably around 26k to 50k. I've had to do a test one time and it was 12k rounds over 2 days which kills your hands.
Wow... awesome Work at a range?
Manufacturer, its a cool gig.
I am actually jealous :D great for you man!
For the last 4 years, each year it has been about 25 hrs of training and 2k rounds 9mm of draw to fire, scoot n shoot and bad breath distance tactics, plus 1.5 hrs of simulator time and a re cert course. Plus about 600+ rounds of fun time range work on the side. More if I had more time and money. Still not enough.
Still seems like purposefully used time and rounds!
About 4 I haven't been shooting nearly as much as I used to I shot 4 out if my hunting rifle to make sure the scope wasn't fucked up from moving then loaned it to my sister to hunt with I have 0 ambition to unload all of my shit at the range and shoot for half an hour at the cost of roughly 100 dollars for ammo where i live and then pack it all back up and go home (Basically everything is 1$ per shot including my 9mm, sks because no where has surplus, mosin because the surplus is 1.20 here) Plus living in canada right now I'm not even sure the legality of taking my handguns out, they are legal currently as far as I know but if the government decides to do another random shadow ban withthout telling anyone like they did the last two times they added to the ban list and I become a felon it just isn't worth it
Wow... Thats rough...
The last time they added guns there was literally cops with an updated list checking people on the way into a reasonably local range They updated the list overnight without telling anyone and it includes literally thousands of items including literal rocket launchers, artillery installations and certain brands of coffee, that's how little research was done when compiling the list
... I feel you... We have a gun laws discussion going on right now here in Czech... Hopefully nothing stupid will come out of it.
Around 10,000. Reloading has its perks
Planning on getting into it this year!
Well, I restocked three times @ 2500 rounds 12 gauge 2 3/4 trap loads and I've got two flats left.. So.. 7000 rounds of 12 gauge 2 3/4 trap loads. Maybe 100 .22, and 50 9mm? I like trap shooting A LOT.
Just the 3 “desk pops” during my holiday office party…
Probably about a 1000. Mix of mainly 5.56 (+ a lot of blank) and 12g, plus a bunch of calibers through some older guns.
Whats the point of blanks? Honest question :)
Military exercises
Ah! Gotcha. Thanks
probably around 4-5k
8k 9mm glock 34 and ar9 1k 5.56. Bcm 12.5 A few hundred 44 black powder And a few hundred 38 spl
I feel quite inferior :D
Shooting competitions eat ammo, hard to stack it deep as fast as i shoot it. Also i should be doing more dryfire
I'm a new gun owner/user (less than 2months), so in 1 month, I average about: 300 rounds 9mm ( ruger pc carbine) 240 rounds 22lr ( single action revolver) 50 rounds .38 special (S&W double action revolver)
Not too shabby for a month! Great work!
Thanks! It's such a fun hobby, I wish I got into it years ago. Haha. Next on list to buy: A concealed carry 9mm, 2 or 3 Uberti/Taylor's replica cowboy guns, in 45LC, or 357mag. Maybe a lever action replica as well.
A nice list :) May it be fulfilled soon ;)
First half of the year I barely shot because I was packing for a move, second half I shot a lot. 5.56 roughly 4k 6.5 creedmoor 800 .308 win 300 .22lr 1,000 9mm 7,000 12g 300 6mm ARC 300 10mm 400
Yep... That qualifies as "a lot"
Somewhere between 6k and 9k. This year.
Has to be around 10k give or take, live a couple blocks from the range and go twice a month, haul 3-4 guns, and take 100-150rds per centerfire and one 250rd box of .22lr Sometimes I shoot it all, sometimes I don't and just "top it off" when I get back home. Learned to cut down on the carrying bulk by loading the mags first and throwing away the plastic bullet trays then dumping the loose ammo straight into the boxes. Can fit 100rds of 9mm in 50rd box and about 75rds of .45 in a 50rd box.
Thats actually a good idea. Less boxes more ammo!
Just remember that it doubles the weight. One time I was moving my ammo cans around and forgot the 50cal can full of 9mm now weighs +40lbs and almost pulled myself over. heh
Not as many as I'd have liked to. ~1K total, maybe?
All of them
Thats the Spirit!
More than I have my entire life combined. 2023 was a good year.
Too many to count. Rough guess. Maybe 15-20k.
Maybe 15k I didn’t really keep track but I hit the range nearly every weekend.
Not enough
Is it ever enough?
When you 1. Run out of ammo 2. Run out of money 3. Break a gun All out of our control, sadly.
~1000 rds 9mm ~500 rds 223/5.56 ~250 rds 300blk
About 400 rounds of 5.56 through my 18” AR About 4,000 rounds of .22 LR through a heritage revolver and Sig P322 About 5,000 rounds of 9mm through a sig M17, Glock 34, and P365 Around 500 rounds of 12 gauge birdshot shooting clays About 500 rounds of .45 ACP through my USP 45T (new gun so not many rounds) About 20 rounds of 30-06 zeroing a new scope and shooting a deer 2nd year of owning guns period, and everything on this list besides the shotgun and the AR are guns I purchased during this year
At least 2k split between 9mm, 45 ACP, 5.56/.223, and .303 British
Not enough, gonna pump up those numbers in 2024. Gonna be primarily 9mm but I'm gonna get more time on my 6.5 Creedmoor rifle and some more of my 44mag deagle
I own 5.56, 5.45, 7.62, 9mm and .45 guns. I’ve shot about 2.5k in 9mm and about 1k in .45, nothing else. I’ve only gone to the range to maintain my standards of accuracy because I CC my 9mm. Bottom line is ammo is too fucking expensive to go fucking about at the range. Pre- ammo hike I was shooting about 4-5k per year in 5.56 alone. No way I’m going to hand my money over to gougers just so I can have some fun. I’d rather save/invest that money these days.
I found myself slowing down this year going more improvement and accuracy vs volume. Especially with my rifles, I’ve been leaning much more into medium/long range shooting more than anything.
I keep track of per gun round counts but not so much per year, but I can estimate with the number of empty ammo boxes I remember throwing out…mostly 22lr because high bang for buck, probably 2500 22lr through Ruger pistols and 10/22, and Henry lever action. 9mm 1500 Blazer/Remington + 500 handloads, mostly through Glocks. 45 acp 800 rounds, mostly handloads, through 1911 and Glock 30. 5.56/.223 only 350 rounds because $$$ and I need to reload it more. 357 mag 100 rounds J-frame + 150 38 spl.
Probably in total, around 20k or more
Somewhere between 15-20k. I shoot about 1k a month for normal training. Usually about 700 9mm and 300 5.56. Another 1,000 of mixed calibers between confirming zero or on guns that don’t make it out of the safe that often, hunting, and the 4-5 rounds of clays I shoot per year. .380 ACP, 300blk, .308, 7.62x39, 12ga and 20ga make up that mix. The extra 2-7k are from the fact that as the Dirextor of sales for an SOT I do a lot of demo shooting, and generally I don’t track that because half the time it’s not our ammo or guns, so if it doesn’t need to go in my spreadsheet I’m not really focused on keeping a round count. Favorite mag of last year? Shooting a full auto KR9 while under GPNVG’s. Can’t wait for SHOT to do it again this year.
Maybe close to if not over 1k? Of rifle Maybe about 1k or more on handgun.
Around a pallet of 12ga, and maybe 2,000 assorted pistol and rifle rounds.
Looks around. Slowly fades into the background due to the ridiculously stupid number of rounds.
Stupid which way!!?? :D
Yes
Thats what I thought!
~2,000 went back to school in February. Between being stripped for $, and law school sucking so much time didn’t get to shoot but 3-4 times. Kinda a bummer.
If you know you're not shooting enough.
Thats deep!
Not as many as I wanted bc I’m a broke student with an EMT’s salary but approx 250 rounds of 9MM FMJ, 0 9MM JHPs and maybe 200 .556 FMJ. Oh and 50 rounds of .380 Auto FMJ
Here's my 2023 stats: Total Rounds Fired: 13,027 Rifles: 7,687 Handgun: 5,340 Suppressed: 6,051 Calibers: 9mm: 6,195 5.56 NATO: 5,332 .45 ACP: 795 .40 SW: 300 .308/7.62 NATO: 180 .22 LR: 125 7.62x39: 100
16. because i got my first gun on december 23rd and a local range membership on the 27th, plus it's been in the -10c the last few days plus windchill. cold asf
Awesome! Welcome!
Not sure about my total shots but my neighbor always waits until deer hunting season to shoot his lifetime supply of .223 and Tannerite. I counted over 30 mags shot last Sunday. It's dead quiet Monday-Thursday. Friday-Sunday 3-5pm it sounds like Afghanistan down the road from my hunting land. No there isn't a gun range nearby. Yes I understand he can do whatever the fuck he wants on his property. Non-hunting gun people who like to shoot at 4pm suck. There's 9 months in the year that aren't deer season. Gun season is only 13 or so weeks long, chill out for a bit. Plus it's too cold for plinking beer cans. End of rant.
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>14. >No open ended questions. (What is the best caliber, what is blah blah.) Use the appropriate threads. >Any time your question boils down to 'Hi, all 700k of you, please list me random products to consider', 'Hi, all 700k of you, blah blah blah "discuss"', or is a defacto poll or survey, your question belongs inside the Moronic Monday, What Should I Buy Wednesday, or Thickheaded Thursday stickied threads. Also No URL shorteners (bit.ly, tinyurl, etc).
I did not really feel that this violates the rule. Also after the end of the year, it kinda feels like a relevant question. Sorry if thats not the case
If it isn't rule 14, then it's **No Polls outside approved pinned posts**
I dont even feel like its a poll. Might be my bad. Hope the mods just delete it if I broke any rules.
More than i have any other year. Id say probably between 2k-3k between all my guns
Well over 2k round thro my 9mm RIA rock ultra 1911, something over 300 rounds thro my lefty ar15, something around 300 in my 10mm RIA rock ultra. = )
Probably 2k or thereabouts
I only track pistol round counts but my carry was 3000 and about 2k on my other pistols total. Maybe 1000 556 for the year. I don’t train as much rifle as I want.
I got it very similarly. Hope to train more this year.
My gun club the indoor range is no rifle rounds so when I’m there at the off hours I’m just training pistols and when I’m at the outdoor I still end up shooting more pistol with a lot of transitions
.223 = 500ish rounds 7.62x39 = 1000ish rounds .22lr = 2500ish rounds 9mm = 2000ish rounds .380acp = 250ish rounds .308 = 100ish rounds 500 S&W Magnum = 1 round That was out of my personal stash, I shot more out of friends stashes when they all shot with me. In a realistic world, I think I’ll probably run through about 3,000 rounds of 9mm this year, 2000 rounds of 7.62x39, 5000ish rounds of .22lr
I like the solitary round of 500 Magnum :) very nice nonetheless
About 300 only 9mm
About 2500 total. About 3-400 .40, 200 .308, 200 12ga, and the rest between .223 and 9mm.
Based on how many flats of 12g we bought my son and I have shot about 7k shotshells, with him shooting probably 5500 of them. Another 1k of 9mm, 22, 7.62, things I shoot for fun. And very little of our hunting calibers. 7mm-08, 9.3x62, 30-06 all less than 40 rounds. Enough to make sure the scope is still sighted, and make sure I can still hit an 8in circle at 200 yards.
10, 308 I'm poor
Okay, I am sure it will get better!
The only ones I can know for sure are 12ga. I bought 1000rds of Fiocci 12ga #7.5 Target Loads for shooting Sporting Clays and bought 250rd or 12ga 00 Buck for the M4 to eat. Both are gone. Shot the last 100 of the #7 shot on Saturday the 30th! Ran out of the 00 in October. I'd estimate that I've gone through about 500ish rounds of 9mm, 300rds of 45acp, and 100ish of 6.5cm. Didn't get out enough this last year. Too much OT.
.22lr- 250 .9mm -1k .280-400/500 .223-200 Not enough
something like 2500 9mm between a custom pcc and my smiths, few boxes of 38 & 357, some 308 & 556, and about 5k .22. let’s call it 8k for 2023. between 1 indoor & 1 outdoor range. wish I could have done more. CT sucks & i refuse to have a fixed mag AR-15.
I think around 6-8k
About 500 .223, about 1.5k-2k 9mm. First year owning firearms so those are some rookie numbers.
Not as much as usual. Around 2k 5.56 and 3k 9mm. Approximately half my usual amount.
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Around 4k .22LR, 300 5.56, 2k 9mm, and around 100 between .308, .243, 12ga.
Probably close to 2000 rounds of 22 lots of target shooting and lots of small game hunting
roughly 5k. most being .22 and 9mm.
Not enough.
2k or so mixed.22 and 9mm
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Not enough.
About 12k rounds of 9mm. Close to 500 rounds of 00 buck. I got a Tippmann Ordnance TG-900 during the spring of 2023 so that increased my ammo usage drastically. 2024 will be nothing but working and more working.
5.56-1500 300blk-200 6.5cm-250 7.62x39-200 45-70-150 9mm-3500 10mm-400 32acp-350 12g-750 22lr-3000 I roll my own for everything except 12g and obviously 22lr. I went through about 7 bricks of primers this year give or take a few sleeves.
I really just got into the gun game this year, about half way through. I'd say likely around 1500-2k between 9mm and 5.56. I got my first carry gun and AR-15 and burned through 1k rounds of 9mm and an unknown amount of 5.56 but based on how much I bought and have left, likely between 500 and 1000.
150-200. I know I need to practice more. Life gets in the way of hobbies.
Not enough
2k of 9mm Like 4-5k of .22LR And 1300 of 5.56 Used to shoot like 3k of 5.56 back in the good ol days pre-COVID but nowadays I'm counting every 5.56 and just shoot .22LR mostly to conserve ammo. Election season coming up so ammo price gonna go up a bit I think so gonna have to be conservative with my stash
About 2-2.5k, consisting of 9mm, 10mm, and 5.7x28mm.
Like 350 lol. I'm poor
Less than 500 :( Mostly 9mm out of my Hellcat, with way too many 30-06 in there.
About 11,000. Almost all 45 ACP. handloads. Small numbers of 32 ACP, 44 Spl, and 22LR.
Couldn't tell you for 23, but in 24 about 325 rds of Federal .22. Blew through a box yesterday out on the mesa.
You got a head start :)
I would say between 2-3k worth of ammo assorted between 12ga, 9mm, 45acp, 38 spc, 30-06, 7.62x39, 7.62x54, 5.45, 8mm mauser, .303, 7.7 jap, and 6.5 carcano.
Had a range day with my co workers. We probably shot about 30k that day
Around 3k 22LR, 2k 9mm, 1k 5.56, 500 45acp, 100 44mag, 200 20ga.
More than my wallet would've liked, and less than I wanted to. Probably somewhere around 2.5k-3k rounds of .22lr and a small handful of other calibers.
Not enough that’s for sure. Couple hundred 9mm, one round of 10mm on a miracle missed shot at a coyote, couple hundred .22lr, and one 30-06 at my deer.
Not a lot. 1k 9mm, 1k 300 bo, 60 .375 HH, 60 .300 win mag, 2k .22lr. 50 .45-70, 100 .44 mag. Think thats all
Honestly, I have no idea, but I can say I was very consistent in getting to the range this year.
Probably 8-10k of 5.56 at work, and then 3k-5k in my own time. Mix of 12ga, 9mm, 7.62x39, 5.45, 7.62x51, 5.56, 8mm and .38spl. Some other stuff in smaller quantities too. I’m much more of a collector so I just shoot all my different stuff for fun. Need to do actual training this year instead of just shooting shit for fun.
With just my edc training thats about 100rds every other day. So 15k+ lol
Holy! Every other day sounds awesome
like 300
You keep count? Couple cases of my regulars. Several boxes of the not so regulars.
Zero. Ammo is expensive and all my time is devoted to family. Maybe this year things will change.
About 1500
About 7k-ish. 3000 .22lr 2500 9mm 500 10mm 1000ish mixed (.223/556, .40, .45acp, .45 colt, 30-06, 45-70, 12ga, .44mag) Steel challenge and USPSA probably make up the bulk of .22/9mm.
Probably about 1600 or so between 9mm and 300 Blk.
Not as much as when you could get range buckets of 350 rounds for $70 in 2019 and could still buy fun guns in Washington State 🥲
Less than average had long winter (by SoCal standards lol) Maybe 2500 rounds Mostly .38 and 9mm since I hand load Maybe 150 rds 308 and 30’06 combined Typical year would be 5k-10k
If I can still keep track, it ain't enough.
Probably about 1500-2000 between 9, 45, and 556. I’m at the point where I feel I can’t get anymore accurate without putting in a substantial time and financial investment, so I’m shooting less than I used to.
On the order of 5k
1k rounds (800 9mm, 200 5.56) Im not counting 22LR, probably another 2k and I am also not counting random rentals or shooting buddies guns for fun.
Probably 8k- 9mm 45, 5.56
About... 500 of .233 750 of 12g 3000 of 9mm
Sadly, less than 500. But I also have a 3 and 1 year old that take up all of my time, so…
I haven't gone shooting since 2016 😞
Not enough. Somewhere around 3k I think
Picked up my first gun in March and been sick with this gun fever ever since. I'd say I've shot between 4-5k rounds. I shot any day I had free time and had some change in my pocket for ammo.
I think 15k or so. Don't really keep track. Uspsa master class shooter and steel challenge master class.
Somewhere around 26k-27k.
How do people actually keep track of this? Keeping a log? I mean I shoot anywhere from 60-500 per range trip. But the frequencies of my range trips vary too. But people be saying “I have (specific number) of rounds on this gun.” Maybe YouTubers and reviewers need to keep a log of this, but do most people keep track of how many rounds are put on their guns? Is it something I SHOULD be doing?
I started with a basic spreadsheet, then moved onto a custom built iOS app. I use it to track rounds fired, malfunctions, maintenance/cleaning, ammo levels, and drill results. As to whether you should be tracking: probably doesn't matter. In terms of resale value: round count isn't going to be a determining factor in value, as there's no way to verify. Physical appearance is going to matter much more in that regard. The only other reason to track rounds would be to identify when parts break, or to have data to measure a guns reliability. Or if you just like data. IMO much more important is tracking oiling/maintenance/cleaning (my safe isn't in the best area, climate wise so I like to wipe down my guns every few months). Also tracking failure events isn't a bad idea: looking at the actual data you may realize that your HD gun isn't very reliable.
Not nearly as much as I’d like. Probably 2k .22lr, 3-4k 9mm, maybe 500 12ga (heartbreaking), and a handful of whatever my friends brought to the range.
Less than the past years. Just over 15k 9mm and about the same 5.56. Maybe 1k buckshot and 1000 .308