Anyone keep a yearly round count?

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When I go shoot. I keep a round count of all the calibers I shoot. At the end of the year I add them up to see the amount of ammo I sent down range with each caliber and gun used. Just a little spreadsheet to help me in tracking my reloading and what guns saw the most action and what guns saw the least.
Seems I shoot more 22lr than anything else, by a wide margin for sure. 9mm and 357 come in a distant second. 12ga is actually pretty good and my 5.56/223 is lacking. 44 mag and Special hold there own as does my 22WMR. 06, 243 and 30-30 seem to be on life support. My 38 special ammo is not too far off of the 9 and 357.
I'll say I am so glad I took up reloading back in 1990. Love to roll my own supply.
 
That sounds like no fun at all! Just not how I'm wired, but I'd be interested in seeing yours and others specific breakdowns.

I have a loose count based on consumption of SP primers to get 9mm and .38 in aggregate. Also cases of 10 boxes of shotgun shells are a landmark, I go through 5-6 in organized league, and usually most of another 2 in random shoots and practice. After that, it's simply a matter of how much the pile shrunk on all the arcane military calibers I shoot. I still have a significant amount of old, some really old, surplus I'm working through, and try to set aside a predetermined amount to use up in a year at all cost.

If I'm asked to work with the LE at our club, all bets are off. In that case I'm shooting their ammo though, so that doesn't really count does it?
 
I dont see the need, if you feel like you dont have enough get more. That's what gets me through the years.
But it would be interesting seeing the total of all the calibers i've shot the most each year
 
I used to, up until a couple years ago. I realized that I'd been taking quite a bit of time to compute how many rounds of which type I shot through each gun... recorded it all, and never, ever looked at it again.

I do keep a running inventory of all my ammunition on hand, and recently realized I did so primarily so the wife and kids would know how much it's all worth when I'm gone, because the likelihood of us going through our stockpile, at least in my lifetime, is pretty much nil.
 
For a number of years I've burned over 12 lbs. of powder a year loading for a .223 Rem. chambered Service Rifle, High Power & Prone Rifle, before the mouse gun it was 24 plus for my M1A & Garand burnt during practice and competitions.

Last year I'm pushed 25,000 rounds of 223./5.56 & 9mm.
 
It’s pretty straight forward for me - I keep track of all of my precision rifle rounds down to the single round, but I keep track of my blasting ammo based on how many boxes or how many pounds of bullets I have gone through.
 
Yes, I jot it down in a note book at the range and put it in a spreadsheet when I get home. 2023 I shot 5344 rounds. Of those, 3208 were 22lr. I have all the details of which guns shot how many cartridges, but don't feel like typing them all in here.
 
No, like others said it just does not sound fun to me.

When working up loads I will "record" rounds, and i guess I could count those up to get a number. But after I decide what my specific load is, nope don't care. I will sit down there and bang steel and not really care how many I have shot.

I am not sure what I would "get out of it". I can't see anything past you shot X amount of this and Y amount of that.

Come to think of it I don't want to know, the mental math would start going off. Wait i shot 200 of this, and 400 of that, at around a buck a bang, dang I did not know I shot that much.

Nope don't want to know.
 
I' don't keep an exact rd ct, but I do keep a journal of all my handloads. I also keep all empty ammo boxes and label the load info when I re-use them, so I've got a pretty good idea what I've fired in each gun during the year.
 
I used to keep detailed round counts for each gun and a running tally of ammo in a spread sheet. But I lost interest in doing that a few years ago. It was a lot to keep track of...
 
Each rifle has its own little book, which includes details about loads, accuracy, and round count. If I really wanted to I could gather them all up and do the math. I don't really care, though. At any rate, most of my rifle shooting these days is with flintlocks, so my round count wouldn't impress anyone!

I used to keep round counts for handguns, primarily so that I would know how long they would last. Those high round count days are long past, though, so I no longer have any more than a rough estimate. It's rare for me to put more than a hundred rounds downrange on a given day, so again the numbers wouldn't amount to much.
 
I keep track of what I shoot in my carry gun. I only give the rest a quick visual scan to determine if I need to take more out of deep storage for shelf filler.
 
There was a time I did but finally figured out there was no use for it. I do keep track of how many times I load a piece of brass these days. I like to spend my time at the range or in my shop, and not keeping a round count. As far as ammo I purchase, if it's on sale I buy it. Ammo and components buy it cheap and stack it deep.
 
I tried once, forgot to keep it up and never started again. I literally have no idea how many rounds I've fired or how much is on hand.
 
Never as I see it as useless info. I do record what hand load shoots best in what gun I am loading for so I can refer back to it. Don't keep up with the number of those rounds fired either.
 
The only count i keep is a record of my reloads . Any reloads i enter in a composition book with the caliber, bullet, powder load, OAL, date, and amount loaded.
 
NO! It would be too depressing. Guessing for handguns, fewer than five hundred.
Shotgun competitions, 2500. In my lifetime, probably enough to buy a motorhome.
 
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I've kept records of all ammo I've loaded since I started in 1971. At the end of 2023 the total was over 224,000 rounds. No idea how much .22LR I've fired.
 
I keep a log of factory ammo,primers,powder and bullets. Mainly so I don't buy any of the aforementioned items that I have plenty of,instead of something I really need.
 
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