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How many rounds did you shoot today

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#1 ·
Shot only 22LR today myself. Put just over 500 rounds through my Ruger MK IV and another 200 through my Savage MK II-FV. Using up some older Winchester Super-X 22LR.

How many rounds did you shoot today (or your last range trip)? caliber(s), firearm(s)?
 
#250 ·
I have not fired a shot in about three months. I think that is the longest I ever went with out shooting something. I have reloaded ammo and made a batch of our drywall compound marshmallow targets and fondled everything in the gun safe. I just don't have the desire to go out in the bad weather anymore. Call me a sissy or what ever but stomping around in the snow or mud just doesn't do it for me now. I am anxiously waiting for Spring weather. I did have a little excitement this winter when a Brinks Armored Truck T-Boned my truck. My insurance company totaled it out. It was an '02 with 47,000 miles. They treated me fairly but no way I came out a winner. I now have a GMC Acadia to get me to the range.
Land vehicle Vehicle Car Motor vehicle Tire
 
#251 ·
Yesterday exactly one shot. Weather was too crappy to be out in it....for me. I'd loaded 6 rounds to try in "Old Thang" with one dedicated to shoot on my 100 yard steel buffalo target. Stepped out the back door, leaned against one of the deck posts and fired away....and grinned when I heard that dull thunk and saw the target swing.....:D
 
#252 ·
Todd51, Sorry about your truck but at least you got hit by someone who. Speaks English and has insurance:rolleyes:. I went shooting yesterday to teach my sister to safely handle a revolver. Colder than the devil, Idaho in Feb is not sun bathing weather. Tried to warm myself with my M1a and several mags of ammo but the best part was back in my Canyon and my fingers wrapped around a heated steering:D wheel.
 
#253 ·
Wife and I shot yesterday, she went through 200 rds of 38spl and was still hitting the target rather poorly at 21 ft with her Smiths. She was on the end Pistol stall next to #1 Rifle stall where I was hitched up with my Savage 99 250. (Did I tell you how much I love this rifle?)

Me: "Honey, I know the NRA eye test said you're left eye dominent but how about just trying the right eye for a few shots?"
Her: "Oooookay"
Results. Bullseye first shot, and group the following 100 within 6 inches of bull (good enough for self defense!)
 
#257 ·
What a pleasant day yesterday was!!!! Unseasonably warm here, 70 degrees but, the wind was....stiff to say the least. I tried three loads, 15 rounds, in "Old Thang" with the new Lee, 238 gr. bullet. No joy there. Evidently they do not see eye to eye. As it was so nice and it's only 30 or so yards from my back door to my bench I pilfered around in the toy box looking to shoot some rifles or handguns I hadn't fondled in a while. The Jeffrey Rook rifle relined to 25-20 WCF was looking a little forlorn and I had about half a box, 25 rounds, that needed burned up as I'd left the filler out, on purpose and to no avail. Grabbed the rifle and ammo and back to the bench. By raising the muzzle and tapping the side of the rifle to settle the powder the rifle put 10 rounds into less than an inch, centered at 25 yards...squirrels beware come Memorial Day weekend!!!! The rifle has that sterling Jeffrey Express sight so I raised the first blade and commenced to ring steel at 100 yards with that rifle and load, emptying the box.

What next...oh my...the bargain basement price Mod. 96 Husqvarna in 9.3 X 57 was begging to be used. A cartridge tremendously underrated and under appreciated except in Scandinavia, where it receives its due. Target was moved to 50 yards and the rifle once more showed why it is such a delight. 4 rounds in less than an inch, centered with the first shot from a cold, clean barrel just barely out of the group. Time to pound the 100 yard, steel buffalo target only this time with a 270 gr. bullet rather than the 70 grs. from the little Rook rifle. The resulting "thwack" from the heavier bullet was pleasing to the ear and that heavy target actually swung on its mounts....imagine that!

I love the 45 Colt cartridge....in anything but a '73 clone because it was never chambered in that rifle originally and is just wrong. My Freedom Arms Mod. 97 in 45 Colt was next and....well....I don't shoot a lot of handgun these days and at 50 yards the target made that manifest. I'd need to practice to take it deer hunting. It ain't the load or the revolver, it's the nut pulling the trigger. Embarrassing is the word that comes to mind.

If anyone thinks they have a smooth bolt action rifle they need to try an early Mannlicher/Schoenauer before making any broad statements. My 1908 in 8 X 56 M/S cartridge was next on the list. As with the Husky it once more showed why it remains among my many favorites. 3 rounds under an inch at 50 yards, centered. I don't shoot 5 round groups with it because the short barrel with the full stock will eventually warm and walk. I don't recall ever shooting 3 times at big game and only once, maybe twice, firing more than one shot so 3 is more than adequate.

All told, maybe 100 rounds were fired yesterday. considering the rifles, and revolver, they were fired from and the cartridges for which they are chambered I could not possibly have had any more pleasant day if I'd fired 1,000 from anything else....except maybe a hand operated Gatling gun.

No, 50 yards isn't far but it's more than enough for 99% of the hunting I'll ever do....and most of what I've done! That and none of the rifles have telescopic sights. All shooting was done with open sights and all the rifles mentioned have a bead and U notch rear sights...in addition to my almost 65 year old eyes.
 
#258 ·
Great read sharps! Now some of your other toys will be feeling neglected....What a pity, that means you’ll have to shoot more next warm day! :D
 
#262 ·
Played all morning with multiple company owned and firearms with a variety of suppressors put about 200 rounds of 5.56 down range from various weapons and about 300 rounds of 9mm down range with a variety MP5s. I go to work Monday in my new job so I am hoping I will gain more trigger time than less
 
#264 ·
Well Sharps you weren't the only one enjoying that weather! Had a small fire at work so we all got sent home early. Decided to take 100 rounds of .40 S&W Anand let them fly. 90 out of my SD40VE and fed 10 to my hi point. All in all a good day.
 
#265 ·
Wife shot 150 x 38 spl in her two revolvers.

I shot the S&W Mod 39-2, what a pleasure to shoot! No adjustment needed on the rear adjustable sights! Just as smooth as silk. exercised 40 rds through it.

Also rattled off 12 shots with the Hand Cannon at 50 yards (Dan Wesson 44 magnum)
These 240 gr over the top of H-110 really get a lot of attention. :)
Not the best grouping at 50 yards but I was standing, using open sights. I originally sighted the revolver in at 25 yards when I got it.
If this target was a grizzly, it'd be dead. :)

 
#268 ·
After shooting the Sig 9mm so well on Thursday today must have been pay back because is was on ego deflating disaster. I shot two boxes of my reloads and as soon as I stretched the distance past 25 yards it was pretty much a fail. I fired one entire 15 round mag full at the tombstone steel at 80 yards and only hit it one time. I don't know what was wrong with me but I sure had a case of the shakes bad, maybe too much coffee, ha. Bob shot his Shield today and was just about as unhappy as I was. We gave up on the handguns and got out the .22 rifles. I shot two boxes of Wolf Match Target through the Ruger 10/22 mostly at our drywall compound marshmallows and tiny pieces of the broken ones. It was real windy and the wind swirled from first one direction and then another. We knew there would be some misses but we both so enjoy the fun of smoking those drywall compound marshmallow sized targets from 50 to 100 yards that we didn't let the wind and some misses mess up our day. It was record setting warmth here today getting into the upper seventies so it was a nice day just not good marksmanship. Bob shot his Savage .22 and did real well CCI Std. Vel. but he is an ex-marine and you know how they are with a rifle in their hands.
 
#271 ·
Over the weekend, around 15--5 .357 from the gallery rifle, and 10 from my Jaeger that looks like an M-16 only it's a semi auto .22. But we had a visitor's day at the club, so the three visiting Latvians got to shoot a few more than that. I showed them how the gun works, then they shot.

I asked, and yes, all three had all shot before. One of them had been in the Soviet Army, so he had fired the real AK-47's, AK-74's, and a Dragunov. When he was shooting the .22, he took up a kneeling position, using the bench for cover. It must have been tame for them, but I think they enjoyed their time.

It was a first for me...an American, watching a Soviet army vet shoot my M-16 look-alike gun.
 
#273 ·
Both ranges I worked had 2500+ rounds dropped. I fired two full mags of 10mm at the hundred yard range and 100 rounds of 45 at various yardage. 200 rounds of .223. 200 of 7.62x39, 100 of 9mm and 50 357 Mag annnnnnnnd we used ballistic gel and I had to add that because it's super cool
 
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