How many rounds this year?

[johnbu]

I've been tossing primer sleeves into a box this year.  Yesterday while straightening up a bit, i counted them.

225 total. 1/2 are Winchester,  50 Wolf, 20 some Sellier & Bellot, federal and 5 cci.

 

Not all went through my CO gun, still have several thousand rounds. My son's lim pro ate up 6-7000 rounds and the single stack 1911 ate a  thousand or so.

 

I did have a few "light strikes" from the S&B primers. They do NOT seem to seat uniformly across random head stamp range picks. Can't blame the gun when the primers aren't set.  Also had a dozen  of the Wolf primers that wouldn't pop at all.  i blame the vodka for those. Lol. While i like the federal primers,  they flip sideways 2-3 per hundred. A pita! The cheaper Winchester, for whatever reason, run better in my press,  they are cheaper and available!

 

All in all, pretty much dead reliable.

[SCTaylor]

I'm sitting just north of 9,000 right now based on my log, should be right at 12,000 by Mid-December going into the off-season.

 

I'd say (to date) 7,000 in the back-up/practice Stock 2, 1,500 in the match Stock 2, and about 500 in the, now traded, RO 1911 9mm.

 

My 2018 practice schedule has a tentative 17,500 rounds.

 

S&B and CCI primers provided a few (25?) lights strikes in the Stock 2's but as johnbu mentioned, was due to improperly seated primers. I've had 2 totally dead primers.

[Scott Steele]

Deleted.... wrong forum.

[WJM]

I think near the beginning I was on track to do about 50 thousand or so.

I ended up doing 25-30k this year.

[bulm540]

12k by the end of the year.

[Avenida]

9.000 here!

[arkadi]

The yearly round count is measured in gallons of decaped primers! [emoji14]

[AzShooter]

Started shooting a .22 this year for Steel Challenge and I've been practicing live fire twice a week, about 400 rounds per session.  Working on speed for first shot and transitions.

I'm manic and shoot a lot.  So far this year I've fired about 25000 round of .22.  I've improved every month and hope I do even better this month after reading Nimitz's book.

Edited November 12, 2017 by AzShooter

[DenverDave]

Will wind up right at 12,000 loaded.

 

[goshimu]

10 hours ago, arkadi said:

The yearly round count is measured in gallons of decaped primers!

I like your style.

[RileyLV]

On 11/9/2017 at 7:59 AM, johnbu said:

 

 

 While i like the federal primers,  they flip sideways 2-3 per hundred. A pita!

 

Just a comment:  I just loaded 2,000 38SC last week using Federal primers and had no flips at all.

[johnbu]

1 hour ago, RileyLV said:

 

Just a comment:  I just loaded 2,000 38SC last week using Federal primers and had no flips at all.

 

Yeah, but i use a Lee Toadmaster and it's a bit "finicky".  in fact, this week i loaded 1500 and had 2-3 flips per 100.  so, it's acting up on me. But it could be the range picks have tight / crimped pockets. I don't swage, so that's always a problem.

[RileyLV]

On 11/12/2017 at 5:56 AM, johnbu said:

 

Yeah, but i use a Lee Toadmaster and it's a bit "finicky".  in fact, this week i loaded 1500 and had 2-3 flips per 100.  so, it's acting up on me. But it could be the range picks have tight / crimped pockets. I don't swage, so that's always a problem.

 

Probably that was it.  I was using new brass.

[JROTTY]

Approximately...

• .40 S&W - 6,000
• 9mm - 2,000
• 223 - 2,500