JohnM
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A little less lately, but only because of eye problems.
How much do you shoot now?
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ccsniper
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Shoot more now then I did, its just .22 pellet gun and 12 gauge more often because I can find ammo for them, oh well, needed to work on marksmanship and clays anyway
kimbershot
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i shoot 45acp and 22lr. the 45--i reload after casting my own. have enough lead for 10k rounds--and i scrounge lead every time i hit an outdoor range, enough cases (can be reconditioned multiple times) for perhaps 60k. have 9k primers and enough powder for same. lgs has primers/powder. 22lr stock--about 10k.
i alternate with calibers but i usually go 2-3/week at the local indoor range. round count--100-150 each caliber.
i will probably shoot more 45's (sa uzi and 2 pistols). i am watching 22lr availability. my 22's are limited to bulk pack and i won't pay .20+ for 22's when i can reload 45's for less than 5cents.
i alternate with calibers but i usually go 2-3/week at the local indoor range. round count--100-150 each caliber.
i will probably shoot more 45's (sa uzi and 2 pistols). i am watching 22lr availability. my 22's are limited to bulk pack and i won't pay .20+ for 22's when i can reload 45's for less than 5cents.
Queen_of_Thunder
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Only 1 match and 1 practice session in the last 3 months.
Yesterday I shot 1 round of trap and it was lile starting over again.
Yesterday I shot 1 round of trap and it was lile starting over again.
Kingcreek
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About the same. I see buckets full of nice clean brass so I figure ill just reload a few hundred, then I put the loaded rounds on a shelf next to several thousand. Then I look at all those rounds and think I might as well shoot some. Then I polish a bucket full of bras...
It's a vicious cycle.
It's a vicious cycle.
JohnM
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It's tough, but somebody has to do it
HOWARD J
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Been too cold here for the last 4 1/2 months to shoot outdoors
I get to indoor range once or twice a month.
Going with grandkids outdoor range next wed. hope for a little nice weather
Today would have been good but they had other things to do.
Like one going places with his new wife
I get to indoor range once or twice a month.
Going with grandkids outdoor range next wed. hope for a little nice weather
Today would have been good but they had other things to do.
Like one going places with his new wife
winter in the northeast has kept my shooting to
a minimum. Now that the weather is starting to turn I will get out out around once a week. I generally shoot 2-500 rounds depending on my mood. Recovering cases in the snow is a big problem and that is why I don't shoot much until it is all gone. Cold temps don't really make me want to hit the range either. I was going to go today after the big Easter meal but I feel like crud. Since the defication impacted the rotary oscillator I have been buying as much ammo and components as I possibly can. I started reloading about the same time and have about 1500 rounds each of freshly loaded 45, 40 and 223 ammo. 357 Sig, 357, 9mm and, 380 are next on the agenda. I sold a lot of my factory ammo over the past week, to support my reloading habit, at drastically inflated prices. I now have enough components to make another 45 thousand rounds of assorted ammo not to mention the 4-5 thousand factory loads that I still have.
a minimum. Now that the weather is starting to turn I will get out out around once a week. I generally shoot 2-500 rounds depending on my mood. Recovering cases in the snow is a big problem and that is why I don't shoot much until it is all gone. Cold temps don't really make me want to hit the range either. I was going to go today after the big Easter meal but I feel like crud. Since the defication impacted the rotary oscillator I have been buying as much ammo and components as I possibly can. I started reloading about the same time and have about 1500 rounds each of freshly loaded 45, 40 and 223 ammo. 357 Sig, 357, 9mm and, 380 are next on the agenda. I sold a lot of my factory ammo over the past week, to support my reloading habit, at drastically inflated prices. I now have enough components to make another 45 thousand rounds of assorted ammo not to mention the 4-5 thousand factory loads that I still have.
Racinfan83
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Since Jan 1 I have been to the indoor range twice. Once before the ammo stupidity, and once for a Comp shooting class where I shot about 600 9mm. I have a small stock of ammo - and with the stores all out I'm not shooting it now. Waiting for the availability to go up and the prices to go down... THEN I will stock up like never before so I CAN shoot once in awhile..
spm
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I still go every couple weeks. I just don't shoot as many round as I used to.
Racinfan83
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Around here - you can't even buy supplies to reload with...
Starter52
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I shoot just as often, but not the same calibers. I won't fire a single round of .22 ammo this spring. I'll shoot only centerfire rounds that I can handload. I'm saving every box of .22 ammo for the kids this summer.
Torian
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Depressing, yet not surprising, to see someone else feeling the same way I do about this.
I have not gone shooting nearly as much as I used to...mostly due to the exorbitant prices of ammo I would have to pay for to replenish my inventory.
As a rule (learned from watching many episodes of The Walking Dead) I keep a certain number of rounds broken down by caliber at all times.
bergmen
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More than last year. Mostly because I've added many new toys to the gun safe and I gotta sight 'em in and show 'em off. I've been laying away supplies for years (including rimfire) and I'm pretty much set indefinitely. I reload for all center fires and I've got brass coming out of my ears.
Dan
Newcatwalt
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I'm still shooting the same but if this ammo stupidity continues I'll have to start cutting back by the end of the year.
I try to go once a week (weather permitting). Just not staying as long as I used to before the latest shortage. I reload just about everything I shoot so the ammo shortage hasn't been the reason for less range time, it is almost impossible to find some components (55 gr. Hornady V-Max). I have plenty of powder, brass and primers, just running low on some bullets. I've reloaded and set aside enough hunting rounds (.308, 270 and 7mm) to get me through the next 10 years of deer seasons so I'm really not sweating the current shortages. I learned my lesson and stocked up after the first time they elected Obama.
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oldbear
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The weather, and family commitments, not the lack of ammo, have limited my range time this year. For some strange reason I don't miss it as much as I thought I would.
Have a blessed Easter all.
Have a blessed Easter all.
Fleetman
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I haven't shot much at all since December but this weekend my daughter and her family visited from NC so we took the LAR Big Boar (spelled correctly) out for six rounds, Beretta 96 with a box of 50 since .40 is/was still plentiful, and a box of .22 Short for the Ruger S/Six.
Blackbeard
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Haven't been to the range in about a year, mostly due to health issues. Still got a respectable ammo cache I built up 4 years ago, but I like to buy two boxes for every one I shoot, and there hasn't been any in stores lately.
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