high volume shooter

Depends on what discipline you're shooting- I'd say 6k of centerfire rifle per year is pretty high volume, but even 6k per year for a dedicated rimfire or pistol shooter seems pretty average to me. Mind you, we all roll in different circles too.
 
I consider 10k higher volume. I average 500 rounds per week from May through September , but that drops off to 100 rounds per week during the other months.
 
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I was referring to clay targets ,, i shoot likely 6k a year ..i guess I would consider myself on the low end of high volume. One guy i talked to said he shot high volume, which turned out to be 100 rounds a month . just wondering ,,thanks for the reply .
 
As this is in the clay target forum I'm assuming you're referring to shot shells expended in the pursuit of broken clays. I would consider someone who averages a flat a week (13000 a year) to be a high volume shooter. At the moment, I'm shooting on average about 2 flats per week and I'm by no means the most active shooter I know (in 12 Gauge I shoot 7/8oz for everything to make my shoulder happier).

For some, a single flat of 12 Gauge may be exceeding the useful life of their guns (we see a lot of "inexpensive" shotguns that aren't very good value once you actually start shooting them) ......................
 
I used to know a guy who shot over 30k shot shells per year and I'd definitely say that is high volume but I don't think there is any real definition of it. It's difficult to be a really high volume shooter when you live in a place where the winters are hard and long. Even shooting over 10k per year means that you'd have to shoot more than one flat per week in the months that it's warm enough to shoot if you live in the prairies. Some people do that but not many and you may have more shootable months in southern Ontario.
 
Those are rookie numbers, gotta bump those numbers up.

I would consider 2k/mo on the high volume, end of things.
On a side note, I shoot as much for pleasure as I do for practice and a lot of it is just rapid firing .22 in the barn lol.
 
IMO 10K+ is a heavy volume shooter. One fellow we trap shoot with shoots 50,000+ registered targets each year. He is closing in on 600,000 total registered lifetime targets this year. I average a flat a week from May to Sept between the trap & skeet fields in practice not counting my registered targets which are lower volume number than practice.
 
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IMO 10K+ is a heavy volume shooter. One fellow we trap shoot with shoots 50,000+ registered targets each year. He is closing in on 600,000 total registered lifetime targets this year. I average a flat a week from May to Sept between the trap & skeet fields in practice not counting my registered targets which are lower volume number than practice.
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Does that fellow spend his winters in Arizona by any chance ? A lot of Canadians pile up the numbers there in the winter. It looks like it will be a bad year for snowbirds this winter.
 
I am on track to shoot (at) about 4500 sporting clay targets this season from May to end of Sept. I have a one buddy that 15000 last season and is on track to shoot 7500 this year. Another shooting buddy will end about the same as me. We are the 3 highest volume sporting clay shooters at the club.
 
It’s the shooting family’s that have me wondering. Dad Mom and a couple kids on the line going to multiple shoots a year.

Pallet discounts?
 
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It’s the shooting family’s that have me wondering. Dad Mom and a couple kids on the line going to multiple shoots a year.

Pallet discounts?
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Even with pallet discounts it would be pricey with a family shooting. But life is short, if you can manage it, go for it.
 
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I consider 10k higher volume. I average 500 rounds per week from May through September , but that drops off to 100 rounds per week during the other months.
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Yes I would agree with you. If your over 10K per year like yourself you would definitely fall into the high volume category. I was also in that category many years ago, one year a couple of us were in the 17K range. That is more or less living at the gun clubs. You eat, sleep, shoot/load shells, then go to work to pay for it all. I had no children and a good job that allowed a lot of time off. But it wears thin after a while.
 
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Yes I would agree with you. If your over 10K per year like yourself you would definitely fall into the high volume category. I was also in that category many years ago, one year a couple of us were in the 17K range. That is more or less living at the gun clubs. You eat, sleep, shoot/load shells, then go to work to pay for it all. I had no children and a good job that allowed a lot of time off. But it wears thin after a while.
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I shot ata targets, most weekends from early spring to middle of fall, usually 500 rnds per, some smaller clubs did 50 bird shoots, so most were 250 rounds weekend. i did it for a couple years, but it wears thin fast like you said. i found it a bit boring, and summer weekends traveling. i enjoy a couple rounds a year now.
 
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