How Many Shells Per Year Stats

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A post by stubblejumper on another thread ("I like to shoot skeet with a SxS now and then, but to be honest, I likely only shoot a dozen or so rounds of skeet per year with each of my SxS shotguns. On the other hand, I average well over 300 rounds of trap and skeet with my O/U shotguns.") made me wonder how many shells other guys are going through in a year, what guns are they using and what activity (trap, skeet, clays, upland, waterfowl, etc).

This was my 2015

1,700 shells Total

O/U: 1,100
SxS: 500
Semi: 50
Pump and Single Shot: 50

12ga: 1,250
20ga: 450

Skeet: 725
Trap & Wobble: 475
Hand thrown clays: 350
Upland: 120
Pigeons: 20
Waterfowl: 10

Footnote: Still have the same 5 turkey shells and have decided I best rotate them so they don't wear out from loading & unloading :HR:
 
SxS 20 gauge three days pheasant hunting 7 shots

SxS 20 gauge 8 rounds of skeet for 200 shots

O/U 20 gauge target gun Sporting clays 1000 shots, skeet, 20 rounds for 500 shots

O/U 12 gauge trap gun 50 rounds for 1250 shots.

semi auto 12 gauge waterfowl hunting 100 shots.

O/U 410 field gun skeet 10 rounds 250 shots.

O/U 28 gauge target gun 200 rounds of skeet for 5000 shots

O/U 28 gauge field gun , ten days pheasant hunting, 22 shots.
 
Hey Patrick, how much you wanna bet I can make you lose count simply by taking you out on a couple diver duck hunts! Anyway, I cant answer this question because I have no clue. But I could likely give you pretty accurate dead bird body count and ammunition inventory! On second thought, better I dont take ammo inventory because that can easily be converted in a dollar figure
 
Not less than 200 rounds a week for me from either my O/U or my semi being used mainly on Trap & Sporting Clays. I used to shoot about 4500 a year when I was big into skeet but since lost interest in that aspect of the sport.
 
Enough to fill a liquor store wine box with ducks.

And I only get one duck per 3 shots average.
 
1963beretta said:
Hey Patrick, how much you wanna bet I can make you lose count simply by taking you out on a couple diver duck hunts! Anyway, I cant answer this question because I have no clue. But I could likely give you pretty accurate dead bird body count and ammunition inventory! On second thought, better I dont take ammo inventory because that can easily be converted in a dollar figure
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I am definitely in for the duck hunting!! And I never ever do the math on what it costs. No good ever comes of it. :runaway:
 
Rough guess on 2015:

Sporting clays o/u: 3,500
Sporting clays semi: 800
Trap o/u: 200
Skeet o/u: 100
Upland sxs: 100
Upland semi: 50
Pump misc.: 25

Total: 4,775
 
- SXS's on skeet, 1 flat (250)/pre-upland season
- SXS's on upland, 1 flat (250)/season
- O/U's on clays, about four flats (1000)/year
- semi's on ducks & geese, two flats (500)/year

Total about 2000 rounds/year... I am not much of a clays shooter... much more of a hunter.
 
I have a rough idea of last years count.

Trap 2300
Skeet 0 (machines were broken)
Sporting Clays 125
Hunting 350

I don't shoot my shotguns near as much as did before moving west. Now I shoot my rifles as much as my shotguns where I rarely took a rifle out living back east. Darned gophers!!!
 
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I shoot 5000 rounds a year sporting clay. Likely 1000 rounds a year at other clay target games. 500 rounds of 20 ga , and couple of cases of waterfowl loads.,, the rest of my income, I wasted
 
O/U 12 ga. Last year, maybe 15 flats at Skeet and 5 Stand. About 5 flats at Sporting. Maybe 2 flats at Trap
SxS 12 ga. About a flat at pheasants, both hunting and ocassionaly as a "gun" at a field trial.
Maybe 2 flats of Fassteel or Impact at waterfowl and a few boxes of lead target loads at grouse & woodcock.
 
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