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I am wondering how often fellow Gunnutz go to the range each year ?

Also how many practice rounds of center fire and how many practice rounds of rimfire do we burn annually ?

How far do you travel to get to your usual practice range ?

I do lots of Sporting Clays shooting, so that cuts into my rifle shooting time........I make about 15 trips a year to the rifle range.

For me about 1000 rounds of rimfire and about 250 rounds of centerfire annually( all bolt action rifles and 95 % are kneeling or standing practice shots))......compared to about 5000 rounds of shotshells annually at clays.

The rifle range involves a 50 km drive each way.......clays are 80 km plus each way.
 
Rifle range is 100 km each way, but it's a great facility. I go about 25 times per year, plus a few long range crown land camping/shooting trips. I don't track how many rounds a year. Maybe 1000 centerfire reloads, anywhere from 0 to 2000 surplus centerfire and anywhere from 0-2000 pistol centerfire. Don't know about rim fire. Maybe two bricks a year at the range + gophers which could be 100 to a few thousand depending on how much time I have. 2015 was less than the above due to my 1 year old daughter. Really cuts into your range time, but she's worth it :)
 
Before I lost my job I would go 3-4 times a month. Cast 30/30 loads and new production steel cased 7.62x54r were usually the order of the day. 60-150 rounds.

Center fire varies, I try to shoot 200-300 rounds of .22 offhand at each range session, for a while I did the same less rounds in .223 or 7.62x39 bolt. A gun in one of those calibers in the same configuration as my .338 for one of those is on the wishlist for this purpose.
 
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Be green with envy .... I probably shoot on close to 200 days each year ... not much each day, usually 15 CF per visit. 15 minute drive to the Range and I'm at work:)
 
My nearest range is 10 minutes from my door, and I shoot rimfire or centerfire every week, weather permitting. Come spring, I shoot ground squirrels every week instead of shooting at the range. For that reason, I now have more rimfires, and more 17 and 29 caliber centerfires than I do larger caliber centerfires. I also shoot skeet twice per week, and trap and sporting clays once per week during the summer. As well, I generally shoot archery a few times each week in the summer.
 
I belong to two gun clubs/ranges where it is between 1 1/2 and 2 hour distances. With the abundance of rifles we have, usually 500 center fire rounds are fired annually. I love load development/results. Equally I shoot prone with the bipod as I do off the bench......lots of fun!
 
Haven't belonged to a club or fired any of my guns since 2012.

Just moved to Winnipeg, planning to get back into it.

When I lived in Ft Mc, maybe 18 times a year. When I lived in Edmonton maybe 6. The larger the metro centre I have lived in the less I have shot.
 
I wish someone would make a practical rifle range like sporting clay. One that you would shoot kneeling, off sticks etc instead of hunching over a bench eatting empties from semi.
 
I made myself a promise that I'd go to the range once a month. I've made perhaps 1/3 of that. I shoot about 400 rounds of rimfire from hunting positions (buying a little gong was money well spent!), and about 10-20 rounds of center fire through each of the rifles I bring.
 
sherlockbonez said:
I wish someone would make a practical rifle range like sporting clay. One that you would shoot kneeling, off sticks etc instead of hunching over a bench eatting empties from semi.
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Unfortunately every station would need a proper backstop, and buffer zone, as per the template used by the CFO. The cost would be extremely high to have several stations.
 
It could likely be done with the right natural backstops. I've got deep ravines, steep valley walls and a glacial moraine ( I think its a moraine, not right up on my glacial deposits) on different properties that are 30-40 meters high if Google earth is to be believed, and that could stop anything and border on impossible to miss. Its a pretty good grunt just to climb the things. The question is would enough people be willing to pay and drive for that kind of thing. Personally I don't think enough would to make the certification practical.
 
^ something based on 5 stand, with each stand being a different shooting position and a silhouette target popping up instead of a trap machine would be cool and not take as much room. Especially if you could include a couple of running deer targets in it.
 
Since I joined mission end of September, I have gone at least once a week sometimes twice. It is about a 64km drive one way.
So far on 308 win, handloads is upto 1800 plus another 160 factory averaging 100/trip.
I haven't shot much anything else. All time totals for this year 9mm only 400 factory rounds, 45 100 factory rounds, 22 probably close to 500?
 
For living in the big city, Im spoiled. The range is only 10 minutes from home. That said, I haven't been much lately. Between school this semester and hunting season, I've been too busy to get to the range other than two or three times since September.

Usually, I like to go at least once a week. When I am lucky, I can get a school schedule that allows for this - back in the spring I had mornings off on Monday/Wednesday, so I would go to the range before school. Im looking at my schedule for next semester, and I start relatively early every day, so I will have to see what its like in the afternoons.

When I get to go once a week, I shoot less per trip then when I dont get to go as often. If I am going weekly, it depends what I take. Usually, I only take 2-3 guns with me, because I find if I bring more than that I dont have time to shoot them anyways. An average week would be 2 boxes 9mm, 2 boxes 270, and 200 rounds 22lr, but that changes a lot. One week I will bring my SKS rather than the 22, or I'll bring my 303 rather than 270... I've been finding 1 centerfire rifle and either my 22lr rifle or my 9mm handgun make for a good day to the trip when I only wanna be there for an hour or two.
 
I have range right off my deck, and do less shooting than when I had to drive an hour to the range. Owning property does tgat. I don't know how much 7.62 x39 I shoot, and don't really count that, but I probably shoot around 400 to 500 rounds a year.
Load development is really nice, sincethe lloading bench is less than 20' from the shooting bench.
I have a standing bench (old filing cabinet ) and a wobbly workbench / shooting bench.
I think some of my friends get more use out of the range than I do. My hanging plate at 100 yards needs welding, and I don't remember breaking it.
 
It is a great question and when I think back to the number of time I shot center fire it is surprising few but generally occurs when I have someone to go with.
Similarly, go hunting in the fall with two CF's, one rimfire and a shotgun and perhaps fired 10 rounds in total - one from the rim fire for a grouse.
Rimfire is another story as I compete in BR50, 100 yard 22 BR and 100 metre 22 BR plus shoot Speed Steel in Cowboy Rimfire Production.
Belong to two Clubs and the ranges are 29 and 50 kms return but I am at one or the other at least once a week.
Rimfire rounds per year . . . Not A Clue! 2000 would be low, 3000 would be low, 4000 now that would be getting close.
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When I had my own 1000 yard range I shot a lot. Prolly 1500-2000 rounds a year center fire. Close to 10000 rounds of rim fire and at least that many shot shells. Now that I'm in town I have to shoot at the range so rifle shooting has dropped dramatically. Maybe 200 rounds fired and that's including the 55 shots from my 458 wm the other day all prone off bags.
Cci quiets allow me to shoot in the basement
I shoot now on average 4 boxes of shells a week for trap and skeet
 
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