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Once or twice a week, depending on projects in the pipeline & availability of components. It's most often at a local private club. Pistol to 25 yds & rifle to 300. Usually lots of nimrods this time of year, but it should settle down to, maybe, having one or two other shooters there in a week or two.

5 days a week, not on Saturday or sunday

2-4 days a week. In my back yard or at my club range 2 miles down the road.

Depending on weather and time of year, 10 below in winter is not fun, most every day...cycle through the rifles. Have a 300 yrd. range next to the house, or can go down the road a piece to the power line. Shoot 6 to 1K often, can also get a bit over a mile out of it, but don`t do that often.

private land for load testing and target practice at least once a week. Nice gun range two miles from the casa to sight in rifles as needed.

These days it averages out to about once a week for rifle/pistol at the gun club, a match once in a while.

I use a friend’s 100 yard at-home range for load development/chronographing.

Try to shoot sporting clays once a month.

Daily!

I'm currently the VP of the 2,500+ member private range that is about 25 miles west of Bozeman, MT. We have 5 active Trap fields; 3 active Skeet fields; a main rifle range with covered benches and berm backed target frames at 50, 100, 200, 300, and 430 yards; and 9 rifle and pistol bays varying from 25 to 100yards, each with covered shooting benches, and each is separated with 15' high earth berms.

I've been shooting there since the late '70s, usually Wednesday afternoons and evenings for Trap or Skeet shooting. For the past 30 or so years I've been going there every Wednesday and some Sundays throughout the year. I also maintain the steel gongs on the main rifle range, so every one of my range sessions start by re-hanging any gongs that have been shot down, then I go to one of the pistol bays where I have my own steel gong that I hang at 25 yards, and I shoot offhand two cylinders or 2 magazines from 3 or 4 pistols at that gong. Then I go to the main rifle range and shoot prone at least 10 shots from each of 2 or more rifles, with 3 shots at the 9" 200 and 300 yard gongs, and 4 shots at the 15" 430 yard gong. Then I go the the Skeet range and shoot 2-4 lines of Skeet.

That totals over 5,000 rounds of combined rifle, pistol, and shotgun shells that I shoot every year, and with the current democrat war on guns, ammunition, and reloading components, its getting harder and harder to find enough ammunition to shoot.

Uhh, OK.... On the right, my range has gongs every 100 to 6. To the left goes to a mile, 7, 8, 9, 1000, 1250, 1500 and 1760. The 2 far ones are out of the pasture, in a farm field. This year we had corn out there and it was taller than the gong stands. Also have 4 x 8 target backers at 100 and 200. And a 5 station trap range. The last pic is from my porch...






sometimes you gotta chouse cattle outta the way.


and other times you can shoot stuff other than steel... pd at the 500


you can see the view of the 400, 500, 600 down low, and 700 to 1760 (l to r) up higher, from my porch.


pic of the covered shooting deck/bench area. Notice the rifle/shooting mat below my elbow. Run over there to have the cop that comes out to shoot, take a pic of my coon....

2 to 4 times a week, indoor range 50ft is 3 min walk.

STRSWilson: "A day" without shooting is usually not a very good day.
I have toned down my shooting a bit of recent and conservatively I have shot over 4,000 rounds so far this year (mostly rimfire but some centerfire [Rifle and pistol] and some shot shells).
I have had years in the past where I have shot 7,000 to 8,000 rounds a year (some required by my former profession).
I like "trigger time"!
Long live the Second Amendment.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Spring, Summer and Fall, about 100 round of Trap each week, Deer Season, one day at the range to double check my rifle and loads, then head out to the blind.
Will also shoot more Trap during the winter when our club runs a Winer League.

When I was a teenager with a 10/22, about 20 rounds per minute including reloading the magazine.


Now that I am older and more deliberate, and with ammo being more expensive, I might go about 2-3 rpm.

X2

Going to the clubs outdoor pistol range in an hour or so. Shoot the hi-power.

Thursdays are 5-stand with a bunch of buds.

Trigger therapy once a week or more often.

If I don't have to tune a rifle or load for it, in a perfect year, with one proven rifle/load taking one animal , it's 3.

Once to confirm zero, once to drop the animal, once for an insurance shot on approach .

I've actually achieved this several times.

My best run was with my RU77 Tang in .338WM. With a single box of factory loads, I took, in the course of 5 years, 2 caribou (about 5 seconds apart) , 3 moose, and an unproductive Idaho elk hunt.

Damn those elk, anyway!

But I still had 2 rounds left out of that box. One of those moose took two finishers. The caribou took one each, the other rounds were used in sighting in that box of ammo (I'd bought 2).

Anyone can just pour lead down a barrel.

No offense homies....

My closest range is 15 miles away, and $150 annually, too steep for my amount of shooting and cheap ass. The second closest is 50 mils away and $50 for 3 years. I use it 3 or 4 times in the summer, with multiple rifles, and a day or half-day to blow- usually on the way to or from Anchorage. Saves fuel...

Maybe 3 or 4 times a year in the yard, where I can shoot about 90 yards, but usually only enough for initial check after doing something- 3-10 rounds, often at 25 yards. preliminary to going to a range.

One of my neighbors runs a B&B, so I try to be accommodating, and only shoot if she has no guests. The other neighbor built a cabin directly behind my 100 yard backstop, some years ago, so I had to switch directions....

Neighbors - who needs 'em?

Just got back from the range to see if the old girl was still shooting where she's been for the past 3 years.
Have a favorite box of rounds that I've been using the past 3 years, only have 10 left, Federal Premium, 308's, 165 gr. Sierra Gameking BTSP
First shot through a cold bore at 100 yd's, that was cleaned and oiled a year ago when I put it way. Single hole 4" left, next shot 1/4" down, 1/4" right,
third shot Dead Center. I now have 7 rounds left, if all goes well these should last me two more years. Maybe I should invest in another box.

Not enough, I should, do more.

I shoot pistol maybe once a month or so. Rifle and shotgun far less than that. The indoor range near me shut down recently, so my drive to shoot has gone from ten minutes to almost an hour. Wish there was a decent outdoor range nearby.

As much as I can!