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I load 20 every 10 years.
One per year to check zero and one to kill the deer.
It’ll take me all day whaking on that ole Lee Loader.

I load two boxes (40) for each rifle that I take on road trip deer and elk hunts. One box goes under the back seat and the other goes in my kit just in case one gets misplaced. I keep a third box for practice ammo. Most hunts I’ll only shoot 4 rounds max. Two for check zero and 1 or two at 300 or 400 yard steel. From last 3 years I have 8 cases to reload. I didn’t go to the range the day before in 2019 because of snow and cold. 1 shot, dead elk.

Depends on what I may have planned out for any given year.
10-40 rounds.

Each rifle i have, i keep about 200 rnds loaded, once i settle on a load for each rifle i don't change it, no sage rats or p. dogs here so i have almost no use for anything but .22 which i have way to much ammo for as i have no use for a .22 except when i am trapping. .223 it's cheaper to buy a few cases than reload it,and i find reloading .223 a pain in the butt. Rio7

For most of the past 20-some years, I've kept my batches of rifle ammo small-- 20-25 rounds. This was because it was the amount I could do in an hour or so of reloading. When I was working and raising a family, that was usually just right.

For pistol ammunition, I generally loaded 50 rounds at a time.

The first big change was about 5 years ago when I started casting pistol bullets. I was doing more loading and more shooting, and I needed to do bigger batches. I invested in a Hornady LNL Auto-Progressive. At that point, a loading session started yielding 200 to 500 rounds.

Most recently, I've decided to reformulate some of the family's top loads and do large runs. My sons each got 50 rounds of their best 30-06 deer ammo. I did 50 rounds of my new 150 grain 30-06 load. All told, I cranked out 150 rounds, and did it all as one batch, with minor changes along the way.

I started reloading about 30 years ago for my Savage 110 in 270 and maybe my dad's Rem 700 in the same. I think I loaded about 3 boxes and lasted me the next 10 or 12 years. By then I was loading for around 20 more cartridges. I had decided to try some of the Barnes ttsx 130gn and work up a load for both of our 270's. After finally getting one together and shooting it in his rifle and mine I think I loaded up about 300 of those. Probably the most I've loaded up for a hunting rifle at one time. I thought we would never use those up then about 5 years later he told me just before deer season one year he needed some more of them! I thought where the heck did 150 rounds go when I knew he'd only killed 8 or 10 deer in that time. He then told me it takes 20 or so to get his scope on every year! Lol, I just about cried over all those expensive bullets! I took his rifle apart, cleaned it good including the trigger which was full of junk and decoppered the barrel really good and it was all much better then.

Dad passed away in 2019, he had open heart surgery and then pancreatic cancer immediately after he got healed up from the heart surgery. Haven't gotten to hunt much last 6 or 7 years. But I had bought a stock and trigger for that 270 of his while he was still down from the heart surgery. He never got to shoot it after I had gotten it stuck back together. I'm hoping to pop a few meat deer with it this year. Still have a 100 or so of those Barnes ttsx I had loaded up to shoot in it. I just hope it doesn't take them all to get it straightened out and the scope back on target.

Pistol ... Thousands however many cases I got a the time ..
Stuff I use for silhouette shooting like 260 708-7br at least a hundred more like 500
AR driven stuff at least 500 at a time

Hunting stuff at least 50 usually a hundred
Precision stuff such as bench rest as necessary.