Availability of 9mm ammo this summer/fall.

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I hope to finally have my RPAL in about a month at which time I can take the safety course for the club I wish to join, get my ATT and start my new sport. It will probably be 3 months in total I guess so I am probably looking at August timeframe before I can shooting.

I am concerned with the short supply of ammo I see everywhere, it will be pretty bad if after all this time I can finally start shooting only to find that I can't get ammo. I am starting with a 9mm handgun and have 2000 rounds of ammo on hold till my RPAL arrives.

So my question... how may rounds would a new excited all gung-ho shooter go through in a week? My range does have all hours access so I expect I will be doing many early mornings and such. How far will 2000 rounds take me?

I know I can always reload my own or even buy reloaded (I met someone at the range already) but still I am curious to see how many rounds others went through in their early gung-ho days.
 
A 250-300rds per visit seems to be avg. 2000 rounds won't last long if you go everyweek. Hope you have a large line of credit.
 
Boltron said:
I know I can always reload my own or even buy reloaded (I met someone at the range already) but still I am curious to see how many rounds others went through in their early gung-ho days.
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I sure hope you not buying some one elses reloads... or you have a good life insurance policy.


Depending on what kind of shooting youre doing, 2,000 can last you a year, or a month. For an action shooter, or avid weekend warrior, that will last you a month or two.
 
Well, I generally use 200 per visit, maybe 2 hours total. That said, you could make 10 last all day if you're going super slow and trying for perfect accuracy. If you're trying for competitive you might go through 2000 in a day.
 
While learning the fundamentals you will use less rounds at the beginning. Shoot to build precision first. The muscle memory from this will allow you to shoot quickly later on and still hit what your aiming at.

If you are tired or frustrated, stop shooting, blasting away without hitting anything does not help anything except deplete you ammo.

Lastly, bring a pellet pistol along. Allows, you to get trigger time without the recoil and builds up confidence.
 
i've gone through 500 to 1000 rounds in a day.... but that was shooting the cheap and easy 22LR to practice my eyes and fingers. and since that stuff is cheap, it was (and still is) an awesome way to learn. buy a 22LR and some ammo for it alongside your 9mm. and take both to the range. spend 80% of your time practicing with the 22, and then run 2-3 mags with the 9mm and see how you do. then back to 22 for 10-20 mags. then again 2-3 mags of 9. repeat ad nauseum.
 
Cdamen said:
I sure hope you not buying some one elses reloads... or you have a good life insurance policy.
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I have wondered about that myself. I guess the old adage holds true that if you want something done right you need to do it yourself.

My thoughts are to start with factory rounds as a new shooter. There is just so much to learn and I want to reduce the possibility of things like mis-fires as much as possible. Once I get some proficiency, I was thinking to do my own re-loads after getting some training.

Does this sound like a good plan?
 
BP7 said:
i've gone through 500 to 1000 rounds in a day.... but that was shooting the cheap and easy 22LR to practice my eyes and fingers. and since that stuff is cheap, it was (and still is) an awesome way to learn. buy a 22LR and some ammo for it alongside your 9mm. and take both to the range. spend 80% of your time practicing with the 22, and then run 2-3 mags with the 9mm and see how you do. then back to 22 for 10-20 mags. then again 2-3 mags of 9. repeat ad nauseum.
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Awesome idea, thank you. So something like a Smith And Wesson MP22?
 
BP7 said:
i've gone through 500 to 1000 rounds in a day.... but that was shooting the cheap and easy 22LR to practice my eyes and fingers. and since that stuff is cheap, it was (and still is) an awesome way to learn. buy a 22LR and some ammo for it alongside your 9mm. and take both to the range. spend 80% of your time practicing with the 22, and then run 2-3 mags with the 9mm and see how you do. then back to 22 for 10-20 mags. then again 2-3 mags of 9. repeat ad nauseum.
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Good basic approach.. I do this as well or I'd be in the poor house..
 
Boltron said:
Awesome idea, thank you. So something like a Smith And Wesson MP22?
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buy whichever one has cheap plentiful mags. might be the S&W, or the Ruger, or the Browning. i myself bought 2 browning buckmarks and have a total of 12 mags for them. oh, and if you buy the ruger or browning, go online and buy yourself "the ultimate cliploader". it should land you on a yahoo store page where you can buy them - again, i bought two! they are a bit finicky to use but much faster than loading by hand.
 
Make sure that the ammo you buy can be used inside. I went ahead and bought 1000 FMJ not realizing that it isn't allowed indoors. Can only be lead at my range. Yours may be different. Luckily they have an outdoor range where it isn't an issue. I will be reloading so i will just reload it all with lead anyways.

But to answer the original question, i bought and am buying more ahead of me even being able to shoot. I'm still about a month before i will be allowed to use my own pistol and i purchased ammo a couple months ago. And am still looking.
 
That's the great tning about having a JR Carbine - it prompted me to stock up on 40S&W long before I bought my G22.

Winchester value packs @ leBarons or wherever - works good and is cheap.
 
BP7 said:
i've gone through 500 to 1000 rounds in a day.... but that was shooting the cheap and easy 22LR to practice my eyes and fingers. and since that stuff is cheap, it was (and still is) an awesome way to learn. buy a 22LR and some ammo for it alongside your 9mm. and take both to the range. spend 80% of your time practicing with the 22, and then run 2-3 mags with the 9mm and see how you do. then back to 22 for 10-20 mags. then again 2-3 mags of 9. repeat ad nauseum.
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I totally agree!
 
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