What Firearms Go To The Range The Most...

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Frequent companions:

Revolver: S&W Model 686
Revolver: S&W Model 649
Revolver: S&W Model 34
Revolver: Ruger Vaquero
Pistol: Colt Combat Commander
Pistol: Browning Hi-Power
Pistol (Rimfire): Beretta Model 70S
Pistol (Rimfire): Ruger Mk.II
 
I have a handful guns that make almost every trip to the range, but guns in some categories see very few range trips in a year. Just depends on my mood at the time I guess.

The one gun with the most range trips is my Winchester 67 single shot .22 rifle. It makes almost every trip regardless of what else I may take. My Nylon 66 is a close second.

If I had to list a gun for each category, it would look something like this:

  • Revolver: Colt King Cobra
  • Semi-auto: Makarov (Russian Commercial)
  • Rimfire Revolver: Rossi Plinker
  • Rimfire Pistol: Ruger MkII 22/45
  • Rimfire Bolt: Winchester 67
  • Rimfire Lever: Marlin 39a
  • Rimfire Semi-auto: Remington Nylon 66
  • Centerfire Bolt: Savage Axis .223
  • Centerfire Semi-auto: Anderson/PSA AR15
  • Lever action: Western Field 740A-EMN (Marlin 336)
A typical range trip usually includes my current carry gun, a couple of other handguns, and 2-3 long guns. Often one or more will be a current project that I am testing or zeroing in.
 
All of mine get shot, but a revolver or two always find their way to the range with me.

686 Competitor or 3" 686+.
 
Hands down it's my Crickett rifle. That's when it stops being a small game terminator and becomes my instrument of Zen. Second comes my PF-9 you see in my avatar pic, because I carry it with me all the time anyway.
 
I just meant out of each of the categories which makes it to the range the most. Like I hardly ever take my lever rimfire to the range but it still is the one that gets there the most mainly due to its my only one.

Most of my range trips consist of one centerfire/rimfire long gun that I’m working on, my CCW piece and a rimfire pistol.
 
No, not at all. Just the frame. I only clean my Glock 17 every 1,000 rounds or so (this translates to between 1 and 1 1/2 months). Once when I was cleaning it (around 60k rounds in) I noticed that it was missing a slide rail on the frame (but still functioned) I sent it back to Glock and they replaced the frame and sent it back within a week, fully assembled, test-fired, and free of charge.
They have great customer service. That’s a lot of lead outta that gun.
 
Instead of answering what I may take I will say that in this day and age in my state where they are legal the AR-15 and variants rule , there about 15 to 20 lanes where I go from the 50 yd to the 100 yd lanes (sometimes the 25 yd lanes also) and every time I go at least half of those lanes is occupied by some sort of AR. If they ever did ban that gun, I doubt most would give them up because they are so numerous and so many own one. After that the next most common rifle I see at the range is some sort of bolt action hunting rifle. After that, some sort of .22 rifle.
 
Always:
pistols -
one 1911 in .45 ACP (just because)
one SIG P-226 9mm (favorite all-time pistol)
one S&W revolver (pre-lock, pre-MIM in .38 or .357)
one duty gun (plastic striker-fired 9mm)
one CC pistol (SIG P-228/229/938/320C)
rifles -
one AR-15
one bolt-action Winchester (.270 or .30-06 usually)

Everything else on a rotational basis according to whatever whim strikes my fancy that day ... but usually includes a Beretta M9 (sentimentality), a CZ-75 variant (cool factor), a snubby revolver (S&W J or K frame, Colt) or a lever-action rifle (Marlin, Winchester) plus the occasional pump-action shotgun ...
 
Revolver- super redhawk toklat
Semi auto- glock 20
Rimfire pistol - ruger mk3 target
Lever action rimfire- marlin 39
Centerfire rifle- dd m4v5
Lever action centerfire- henry h010
I mainly shoot 45 colt level loads from my super redhawk (loaded in 454 cases) and i shoot my henry 45-70 with trailboss loads for plinking but i have been known to unleash full house loads in various powerful calibers in a busy indoor range if thats what im testing. Geez the looks you get when they let the thunder out. Its tough in illinois , shooting indoors at least 3 months out of the year. I dont do it to be disrespectful to others sharing the range but i have had people move far away from me sometimes. I always apologize though.
 
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