Ever wonder how many rounds you have shot over the years?

[M70375!]

Just for the heck of it in January 2009, I started saving my spent primers and this is what I have accumulated 18 pounds , maybe someday when I have nothing better to do I will count out 100 of them and weigh them on the powder scale and do the math to get a close idea.

 

[D-Orcutt]

0331 machine Gunner, the rest of my life I will never fire as many rounds as I did in those 4 years

 

[Odinsraven]

Dont shoot much pistol but when I competed ahot 1000 a week ....npw rifle maybe 20 a month

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Just for the heck of it in January 2009, I started saving my spent primers and this is what I have accumulated 18 pounds , maybe someday when I have nothing better to do I will count out 100 of them and weigh them on the powder scale and do the math to get a close idea.View attachment 754522

@M70375!
Don't know how many I have fired but enough to cause partial deafness in my left ear ( prior to earmuffs). To sum it up in a few words lots and lots
Bob

 

[jruby]

I have no way of telling- I am guessing i shoot five hundred rounds a year of centerfire rifle. I hope some day when I retire I shoot more. I have aquired three life times of firearms and have several firearms i may never shoot. Someone in the future will obtain some nice firearms. Keep telling my wife that my collection will be hers and she could not be less thrilled.

 

[Doug3006]

It’s a great question. In my case, it’s impossible to answer. One pig hunt in Texas comes to mind. We were serious about reducing the stock of feral hogs. Three of us rode along in the bed of a pickup using lights and ARs. At the end of the night’s festivities the casings were ankle deep in the bed. Had to shovel them out. The porcine carnage was significant .

Dove hunting when I was starting out was always a high volume affair! My friends would ask how many boxes I brought. I always answered, just one. A case is technically a box!

There have been range days when the ammunition brought by me and my friends would have amply supplied both sides in the battle of Omdurman. Years of shooting registered skeet. No telling.

 

[Ridge Runner]

It’s a great question. In my case, it’s impossible to answer. One pig hunt in Texas comes to mind. We were serious about reducing the stock of feral hogs. Three of us rode along in the bed of a pickup using lights and ARs. At the end of the night’s festivities the casings were ankle deep in the bed. Had to shovel them out. The porcine carnage was significant .

Dove hunting when I was starting out was always a high volume affair! My friends would ask how many boxes I brought. I always answered, just one. A case is technically a box!

There have been range days when the ammunition brought by me and my friends would have amply supplied both sides in the battle of Omdurman. Years of shooting registered skeet. No telling.

I can relate....

Back in my early years .22's (short, longs, long rifle) were 50 cents per 50, $5.00 per 500 count brick.

.410 ammo was between $2 - $3 dollars per 25 count box. 2-3/4 inch,12 gauge heavy field loads for squirrel, rabbit, pheasant, quail was around $3.00 per 25 count box.

The popular centerline ammo: 30-30, .243, 30-06, .270, 7mmRM, was $3.00 - $5.00 per box of 20 rounds.

Lead for making round ball and conical bullets, using Lee bullet molds, for black powder rifles was free to 10 - 20 cents per pound.

Fast forward to present day....at today's ammo prices vs back then. I still shoot a lot. But I hate to think, I don't want to think, of how much I'm spending, even reloading my own ammo, to consider how many /much ammo I have shot over the years (ok, decades). But seriously I'm sure it would be a lot more than one 5 gallon, or thirty 5 gallon, buckets, not including all the ammo, foreign and domestic, I shot up during my military years.

Crying in my drink.....looking back.....If I had a nickel for every round I shot, I'd be a billionaire, if not a multi billionaire.

FYI, I Just loaded up for another range day. I generally plan on shooting 100 rounds per firearm, at a minimum 4 firearms. I may break out my EDCs that'll be another 20 to 100 rounds per firearm, but I'll only shoot 2 or 3 of those firearms.

Shooting is the fun part. Not so much fun cleaning several firearms at one time.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

I can relate....

Back in my early years .22's (short, longs, long rifle) were 50 cents per 50, $5.00 per 500 count brick.

.410 ammo was between $2 - $3 dollars per 25 count box. 2-3/4 inch,12 gauge heavy field loads for squirrel, rabbit, pheasant, quail was around $3.00 per 25 count box.

The popular centerline ammo: 30-30, .243, 30-06, .270, 7mmRM, was $3.00 - $5.00 per box of 20 rounds.

Lead for making round ball and conical bullets, using Lee bullet molds, for black powder rifles was free to 10 - 20 cents per pound.

Fast forward to present day....at today's ammo prices vs back then. I still shoot a lot. But I hate to think, I don't want to think, of how much I'm spending, even reloading my own ammo, to consider how many /much ammo I have shot over the years (ok, decades). But seriously I'm sure it would be a lot more than one 5 gallon, or thirty 5 gallon, buckets, not including all the ammo, foreign and domestic, I shot up during my military years.

Crying in my drink.....looking back.....If I had a nickel for every round I shot, I'd be a billionaire, if not a multi billionaire.

FYI, I Just loaded up for another range day. I generally plan on shooting 100 rounds per firearm, at a minimum 4 firearms. I may break out my EDCs that'll be another 20 to 100 rounds per firearm, but I'll only shoot 2 or 3 of those firearms.

Shooting is the fun part. Not so much fun cleaning several firearms at one time.

@Ridge Runner
One place I used to hunt the old lady that owned the property wouldn't let me use my hunting rounds for practice.
In the barn her lat husband hand 2x 200litre (44galon) sealed drums of pristine 303 ammo she wanted me to use up for her. Who was I to say no. Problem was until you worked out the markings on the projectile you didn't know what you were using. I could be ball, armour piercing or tracer. Top that off it was also a mix of MkV11 ball or Mk8z machine gun ammo as well. Fortunately my mate had an old 303 as well and the lovely old lady let me use her late husband's full wood SMLE as well.
Over a couple of years we emptied one drum and about half the other one.
I don't know how many rounds in each dum but it was lots and lots and lots. We had a great time helping that lovely lady dispose of the unwanted ammo in exchange for a few chores around the farm.
Bob

 

[Tanks]

Over a million for sure. Mostly pistol rounds though.

 

[Ridge Runner]

@Ridge Runner
One place I used to hunt the old lady that owned the property wouldn't let me use my hunting rounds for practice.
In the barn her lat husband hand 2x 200litre (44galon) sealed drums of pristine 303 ammo she wanted me to use up for her. Who was I to say no. Problem was until you worked out the markings on the projectile you didn't know what you were using. I could be ball, armour piercing or tracer. Top that off it was also a mix of MkV11 ball or Mk8z machine gun ammo as well. Fortunately my mate had an old 303 as well and the lovely old lady let me use her late husband's full wood SMLE as well.
Over a couple of years we emptied one drum and about half the other one.
I don't know how many rounds in each dum but it was lots and lots and lots. We had a great time helping that lovely lady dispose of the unwanted ammo in exchange for a few chores around the farm.
Bob

Free ammo like that leads to buying new a rifle or 2, But a lot of fun.

 

[Dparr]

Just for the heck of it in January 2009, I started saving my spent primers and this is what I have accumulated 18 pounds , maybe someday when I have nothing better to do I will count out 100 of them and weigh them on the powder scale and do the math to get a close idea.View attachment 754522

AI says that’s 24k to 33k primers depending on size.

 

[Dparr]

Just for the heck of it in January 2009, I started saving my spent primers and this is what I have accumulated 18 pounds , maybe someday when I have nothing better to do I will count out 100 of them and weigh them on the powder scale and do the math to get a close idea.View attachment 754522

ChatGPT says that 24k to 33k rounds depending on primer size.

 

[275r7x57]

I bought a Dillion 450 and 1050 off a gentleman that professionally shot. The 450 had over 4 million documented 38 specials loaded and the 1050 had 500,000. The man was shooting 1,000 rounds, 6 days a week for 15+ years. I loaded 500,000 on the 450 and started having an indexing problem. I contacted Dillion about it sent it in. I told them the round count was 4.5 million and they offered to buy it off of me for advertising purposes, I declined and had them rebuild it. It is still going strong.

I have no idea how many rounds I have shot personally. Many.

 

[steve white]

Be kind of like imagining how many meals you have eaten and what that pile would look like...lol

 

[Miletic]

So in that case, I can't say how much I fired

 

[Nyati]

50+years of competition shooting (mainly handgun) and hunting so... a lot !

 

[Schüler Jumbo]

Hahaha! Great question!!
•Growing up with a WWII Marine as a father who believed in being a fine rifleman, thousands of .22’s
• Four years college Trap & Skeet Team
• Two Years ROTC Rifle & Pistol Team
• IPSC before USPSA 80,000 rounds per year competing at the National Level.
• Solder of Fortune Tournaments
• Bianchi Tournaments
• USPSA 30,000 rounds per year
• Steel Challenge Tournaments
• 3Gun Tournaments
• MultiGun Tournaments
• 1,000 Yard qualification
• 1 Mile qualification
• Hunting Fields
• Safari
• Teaching

Life Is Good……….

 

[NIGHTHAWK]

Not a lot actually. Outside of .22 LR and 12 Gauge when I bird hunt.

I Just make it count when I do.

I enjoy shooting intend to do more….

 

[Hornedfrogbbq]

2.

My audiologist says "2-many!"

 

[mdwest]

Multiple millions…

But there was a 15 year period of time that someone else was paying… and my profession involved shooting a lot and shooting a wide variety of firearms ranging from handguns to sub machine guns to belt fed weapons…

There were also a few years that I was very involved in competitive shooting… I’ve also been an NRA, FBI, and POST certified firearms instructor for 30+ years and did a lot of firearms instruction for both civilians and law enforcement SWAT teams and protective services units for about a decade…

These days it’s probably no more than a thousand rounds a year… and has been that way for most of the last 15 years…