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I was just having a tally up of how many rounds a year I shoot .
Hunting I would be lucky to shoot 100 a year and the vast majority of that would be small game Rabbits/ Possums .
Target shooting is somewhere in the region of 2000 rounds , the vast majority of that is Clay Targets with maybe 100 rounds of rifle shooting to sight them in - check the zero etc .
How many does everyone else shoot ?
the red queen/stalinda will have her minions reading this so they can use information to cap the amount we allowed to possess in future.
.22lr 50-200 rounds per year
.223 50-200 rounds per year....can go 50 rounds in day at times
other large calibres 10-50 rounds per year
shotgun 100-200 rounds per year.
Things have changed since the law change, but my last 2 years useage would have been around 2500x 22LR, 400x shotgun, 30x .303, 600x 7.62x39.
Bar a few sighters no for target shooting I bet....Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben Waimata
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A competitive clay bird shooter could easily use over 3000 per year possibly even double that. I play around at sporting clays and use 6 slabs a year.
Small bore shooters when i did it it was a box a night once a week.
Pistol shooters at least the ones i know are quite large consumers of ammunition
Pest controllers not unusual to go through well over a hundred in a night.
Some recreational hunters / shooters might use only 10 rounds a year others several hundred spread across multiple calbres.
Personally it's quite a bit several thousand 223 and 22 at least not counting bigger stuff but it's my choice and the reasons are in no particular order recreation, pest control for economic reasons, hunting for meat, and competition. I don't mind putting them up here but I'll be damned if I would tolerate having a cap put on the amount I used by some shiny arse who thought I was using too much.
Interesting.
In the last month I've done just shy of 1500 rounds from my 40.
So I'd be 10k+ a year for 40 that's both training and comps. Then the old hand cannon 45 would be 2k.
Rifle.
I'd be 100 for hunting and 500 for load development and practice. That's centre fires as I dont own a rim fire just yet.
I know of other people who enjoy the short barreled variety and would shoot a minimum of 5k in practice alone.
I'd b over a 1000 rounds of 223 2-3000 of 17hmr and prob 2-3 slabs of shotgun ammo a year easy and prob 60-70 of 270 all hunting and pest control
In the last 6 or 7 weeks ive fired 400 centre fire And atleast 500 rimfire.
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I don't keep count, but 22LR will be quite a lot - plinking, and practicing fundamentals - I'd send 100+ rounds easy in a weekend. Rabbit shooting depends on numbers about sometimes you can burn through ammo on pest control.
6.5cm less - hunting might not get a shot off in a month or 2, targets 20 or so in a session. maybe 150 - 250 a year?
Somewhere in the region of;
12 and 28 gauge, 200
Centre fire (all rifles target and hunting), 300
Rimfire, 500
Well - Last year I seemed to purchase more than I use - however last 12 months - be about 5k/.22 1k/.22WMR 300/270 300/22-250 500/Other - plus reloading components sufficient for about 5k. I can get though 100/.22 in the shed at night regularly.
I am not in the slightest worried about the commies knowing what I use - my big concern is they will come out with a ridiculous limit - as they will not understand that some use more than others - and a desk jock who uses no ammo in Wellington will think that should be the limit.
I’m just a wet behind the ears rookie looking at some of the numbers quoted here...
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Rimfire: 2000 - 4000 per year
Centerfire: currently around 2500+ per year.
good point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
I shoot 50,000 center fire per year.
10,000 shotgun.
150,000-200,000 rim fire per year.
Love pissing contests.......
You could call it a pissing contest, alternatively could call it a money wasting contest, or even a "who is the worst shot and needs heaps of ammo?" contest. I took it at face value as a serious question as indication of how many rounds we were all going through.Quote:
Originally Posted by zimmer
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Originally Posted by Ben Waimata
Ha ha a couple of years ago there was a similar post started on a Yankee forum I am a member of. I posted exactly the same comment and the Moderator threatened me with expulsion from the forum for "swearing".
For me and wife and kids around 1500 mixed of various shotgun, cf rifle and rimfire which expenditure and time and recreation, competition and hunting far exceeds any temptation to waste time, money and life on xbox, videos, gambling and woke shit on farcebook and the like ha ha. Our hunting and shooting interests prevent to an extent susceptabilty to braindead sheepiness which the "woke" would prefer to lead us into.
p.s. I hope the spew when they read this.
I used to shoot a lot more than i do now
When i was. Competitive Shooting id do 3-400 Per week depending on the week so maybe arround 20,000 per year and that was just 22lr if I went and shot centerfire maybe another 2000 a year
These days the past 6 years id still do 2000 rounds of 22
And 2000 of cf and or muzzle loading black powder but in comparison sweet fuck all
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Originally Posted by 40mm
For me it varies from year to year - clearly this year has been difficult.
150 rounds of 22 pretty much every week, 50-100 rounds of 9mm a month, 30ish 38/357 a month, 200 rounds 223 a year 20 rounds of 270 a year and probably 450 rounds of shotgun a year, alot of ammo for a 16yr old to buy lol
No where near as much as I used to. Just clocked 1250 rnds on a pistol I have had since mid May. Normally close to 750 a month on my handguns but I have been slack.
Last 2 years I have only loaded maybe 75 rounds for my larger centerfires but have gone thru a few more on the wee hornet.
Used to chew thru a pallet of shotgun ammo in a few months when we were doing rabbits and wallabys out of the machine. We all took turns shooting and flying. Plus 2000 buckshot and a thousand 223 a year on venison shared between a couple of shooters.
Dunno if it is age or lack of shooting but I shot well below average for a large chunk of the duck season. Got my mojo back as the season was ending[emoji1787]
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