volume of loading.....

[rmcc]

Just wondering what the average is for us here on this site. Not counting shotgun, I have averaged about 5000 rounds spread over 28 or so calibers for the last 15 years. Used to shoot ATA trap, so don't even want to think of those numbers!! Anyway, where do the rest of you fall in at?

Thanks,
Rich

[ihmsakiwi]

Hi Rich.
I shoot handgun silhouette monthly so 200 -250 centre-fire per month, plus the same in .22LR.
So 3000-3500 centre-fire and the same in .22LR

[Harter66]

2000-2500 per year for last 4 years,before that and before cast maybe 500-750. I used to be a duck hunt'n fool ,turns out I just didn't want to be around the now ex-wife and the kids grew up got lives ,the hunting buddies moved on and the retriever went on to the duck pond in the sky. I probably shot half of of that 5-750 on the 42 huntable days I had from the weekend before Columbus day through about a week after New Years. Seems like these days I shoot to go shooting ,no competition,no just not wanting to be home,just the joy of spent powder andempty cases to fill up. Damn I miss that dog. Now that I think about it in the ducking days it was probably closer to 1000 I know I burned up a full case a couple of seasons.

[stubshaft]

About 1K per month 12,000 a year. Of those only 20% are J-words.

[Von Gruff]

I would probably only average about 50 rounds a week, cast, j-words and 22LR so 2500 annualy over 4 calibers. Not many shotgun, maybe couple of boxes a year.

Von Gruff.

[geargnasher]

It varies. I don't compete anymore so sometimes I only shoot a hundred or two rounds a month, mostly for load testing. Some months it might be 1k or more in five or six calibers (all metallic, FIL handles the shotgun reloads).

Gear

[wittenjr]

about 4000 yr. all cast

[375supermag]

I wish I knew with certainty...

I probably reload 5-6000 rounds of handgun ammuntion each year...the vast majority is cast lead, but I do shoot some Hornady HP/XTP.
Some weeks in the spring and summer, it is difficult to keep up with the reloading. My son and I seem to keep the case tumbler running pretty regularly. I don't cast my own (no time), but I generally buy a box of 500 in one caliber or another pretty much every week during the shooting season (April-Oct.). I also buy a lot of powder and primers during the shooting season. I try to buy ahead of time during the winter months, but never seem to have quite enough of a stockpile, once the shooting starts.Then again, I don't really know what enough of a stockpile would be, because it always seems that the bigger the stockpile, the more I reload and the more we shoot. Life is tough, man...so many guns, so little time...

[1Shirt]

Between p-dog, paper shooting, hunting, etc. and going by primers remaining probably between 3500 and 5000 a year. Rifle for the most part! Would be more if range was closer.
1Shirt!

[Kraschenbirn]

I try to get to the range at least once a week, year-round. Of course, Illinois winters being what they are, November through March it's more like two or three times a month. Typically, I'll take two rifles and one handgun and run 50-75 rounds through each. Works out to 5000-6000 rounds of CF a year...more than 90% cast.

On the other hand, a few years back when I was shooting "serious" handgun competition, I was easily going through 20-25,000 commercial CBs (.45s & .38s) a year and, probably, another 10,000 .22s.

Bill

[FISH4BUGS]

Since I shoot a lot of submachine guns, I typically load in lots of 1000 on a Dillon 550. I only use jacketed in 45, 380 and 9mm when I use the supressor. The blasting ammo is cast. I buy all componets in lots of 1-2000 for jacketed, 5000 for primers, and 8lb jugs for power.
I never really kept track......just load and shoot. Interesting question though.

[rmcc]

I take my hat off to you folks! I load WAY more than I shoot. That probably explains the dire need for storage space in the reloading room. I keep telling myself I will go shooting when it warms up, hasn't got warm enough yet....but I will. I guess I am an "ammo hoarder"".

Rich

[azcruiser]

Don't really count would say 1- 5ga bucket ea per year of of 9mm-223's 38/357mag 45acps
and blast away ? thousands of 545x39 and 762x49

[Cherokee]

I also load more than I shoot, but then, again, I always have some available when I want to shoot. Lately I have been shooting 2-400 rounds per week.

[Southern Son]

When I first started shooting pistol (1993), I was loading on a Lee Loadmaster and shooting about 1500-2000 per month. The range was open 7 days a week (and only about 10 minutes in the car) and I was happy to go out there on a weekday, have the place to myself and fire 300-500 rounds. And then I would go out there again the following day. Plus shooting in competition on weekends whever I got a Saturday off.
The club I am in now is a little different. I was at the range today at 1.00pm. I left at 4.00pm. I fired 36 rounds in that time. I cannot go out there any day I like and it is about a 45minute trip when I go. You basically can only shoot in what ever match is being shot and only on weekends. I only get about every second weekend off so at this rate, the 500 rounds that I loaded on my Dillon 550b on Friday afternoon will last the rest of the year.

[BOOM BOOM]

HI,
At least 4,000 a yr. for the last 5-10 yrs. 95% + cast. Ya see. I like to shoot.

[RobS]

It fluctuates from month to month but on average 5K to 6K a year.

[RBak]

Muzzleloader, maybe 40 / 50 or so shots per week...(about 1 to 1.5 lbs of Goex powder every month at 70gr. per shot.) However, last year I did shoot almost a case of Goex.

Centerfire with cast, maybe 2 boxes of primers, or thereabouts, every month.

Looks like that may work out to be about 3 to 4,000 rounds annually, or somewhere in that neighborhood....not very much compared to a lot of you guys.

Like others have mentioned, weather is always a consideration.
It's not so much the rain and snow here in the Columbia Basin, but the wind....nothing to block it but cornfields and potato fields and they don't do a very good job.....

I sat in the truck at the range today for a good hour, waiting for the wind to die down, finally just left without shooting at all.

That doesn't happen much, but when all the fields are fresh plowed the range acts like a magnet to 'blow dirt'...once the Irrigation gets turned on, usually 2nd week in April, it sure does help that blowing dirt problem.

Russ

[DragoonDrake]

When I was shooting CAS and back-ally IDPA, it was about 1,000 rounds a month; between practice and matches. This year I think I am going to concentrate on IHMSA, so I expect the round count to be way down. Not too many places close by that you can practice shooting 200yards/meters.

[Charlie Two Tracks]

This is just another example of why I need to document what I do with shooting. I record the load on the ammo box but that is it. I have no idea how many I shoot or how many times cases have been reloaded. I know this is not right but that's what I do.