Do you shoot your awesome (fancy) black rifle enough to justify its cost?

Do you shoot your awesome (fancy) black rifle enough to justify its cost?

  • Yes, I’ve put enough rounds down range to know my money was well spent.

    Votes: 80 33.8%

  • My black rifles awesome, but I wish I shot it more.

    Votes: 130 54.9%

  • No, its either not worth it or I don’t feel like I’ve shot nearly enough

    Votes: 16 6.8%

  • I don’t own a fancy black rifle and my .308 hunter is worth it with 6 shots a year

    Votes: 11 4.6%
  • Total voters
    237
Steve Janes said:
5000~ rounds in 12 months through my Swiss Black Special

About 2000~ in the last 4.5 months through my Classic Green

So, Yes, I think I shoot enough to justify the rifles, even two of them ;) ;) ;)

Honestly though, I selected : My black rifles awesome, but I wish I shot it more.

I still wish I had more time and money to put more rounds down range. You can never have too much ammo, and you can never ever shoot "too much", training makes you better, so why not keep doing it. You want rounds down range in a hurry try going down South and doing a 2 day advanced carbine course, or better yet, some of the high risk security type/Infantry courses they run down in the states, you could easily run 2500 rounds in 4-5 day course. Some of them list the supplies you'll need to bring and for a 2 day course your looking at 800-1500 carbine rounds, then the 4-5 day courses are asking for closer to 2500-3000 carbine rounds. The guys I have seen in Canada that teach what they call Carbine courses are pretty hilarious when compared to down South
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More rounds downrange does not necessarily equate to "better" training. IMHO
 
I live about an hour away from the range and work another half hour away, it is pretty much weekends only (the bush is even further). So, I get out about once a month, maybe twice (sometimes every week although rarely) because of this. I go as often as I can.

In the past year and a half I have put ~3000 rounds through my AR… that is in between the ~5000 rounds of handgun ammo I have fired in the past year and a half...

So… some may not agree, others may, but…
Yes, even after the first 100 rounds I felt my money was well spent…
And, my black rifles are awesome and I wish I shoot them more…
Finally, I don’t fell the need to justify anything…

This thread sounds like my mother…
 
Yes, I shoot my toys often to justify them.

On the indoor-range about every second week (sometimes more)
Outdoor-range about once every other month, when we can go to an Army range.

About every 6 weeks or so I teach a class on my own, either with pistols, or rifles. Then I don't shoot that much, but teaching is much more fun and even more rewarding.

Ammo through the toys is not that much, I'd say around 3 to 4k rounds. A good training doesn't take that much ammo, a lot you can do with dryfiring (at least for the basic stuff)
 
i own a tar 21 and a rfb the tar doesent cost a lot to shoot but i dont have the time the rfb cost much much more to shoot havent even got to fire it yet :(
 
Most people saw me shooting my LE6920 at the ORA match last weekend. It gets the most mileage of all my rifles, but I'm disappointed I haven't had the time to wear out a barrel yet.
 
Recce21 said:
Your girlfriend has nice legs, show more pictures of her :)

I have put more than 10,000 rounds through an AR in a week. Gotta shoot to train.
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Were you paying for the ammo? That seems like a pretty excessive amount of shooting. If you shot 6 hours a day, seven days a week without taking any breaks, that still averages out to 238 rounds per hour.
 
Could not vote in your poll none of the options listed work for me.

My XCR-L with uppers in 223 & 6.8SPC is definitely worth it but it has nothing to do with how much I shoot it.

It is worth it to me because it is so accurate and freaking awesome to hunt with... :D
 
Rofl I was about to go shooting today and realized my LTATT was expired. On the phone right now trying to get a new one lol.
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You mean to tell me this can be done over the phone, no need to send in the forms, wait 4-6 weeks. I dont believe this can happen in Canada, next you will tell me there is no long gun registry.
 
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Depends on the year. Some years I might put a thousand rounds a month, every month, through a single gun. Some years I might put a thousand rounds through all my guns combined over the entire year. It depends what else I have going on, and if I feel like shooting.

My day job does not require shooting skills, so shooting is purely for fun for me. If I don't feel like doing it, and I want to go kayaking or motorcycling or climbing or I just feel like reading a book instead, that's what I do.

I shoot pistols way more than rifles...but anyone who can shoot a pistol well can shoot a rifle fairly well also, so pistol training is, IMO, fairly useful rifle training. The reverse is not true.

The other thing is that I never plink. I never hang out at ranges and blast stuff. I do either structured drills, or in some cases, compete a bit. Frankly I go back and forth on competing. I like the shooting part, which is about 2% of the actual time I spend there. The minute or two during the run, I enjoy quite a bit. The rest of the time I'm bored and wish I was somewhere else. That's why I enjoy training so much: I'm given a set of tasks to complete, and the tasks are constantly changing and increasing in difficulty all the time. It requires a lot of mental focus and there is very little down time.

Hanging around ranges is totally uninteresting to me and I don't like it at all.
 
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