Track round count on your guns?

[G-ManBart]

Years ago I tracked round count pretty closely on my first Open gun, but have gotten lazy since then. With my new blaster arriving this past week I was considering starting a book to track the round count. It won't be exact since it's hard to track exactly at matches and when doing chrono work, but still close enough that over time it's not going to make any difference. If you do track the number, how do you accomplish this....a little log or notepad you keep in your shooting bag or something else?

[EatMeerkats]

I keep track of exactly how many rounds I bring to the range, and how many I come home with. I make a mental note if I lose any live rounds while unloading and showing clear or otherwise, and I'm pretty sure my logged count is very, very close to the actual count. I just keep my log in a text file on my computer, although I suppose you could get fancy and use Excel or something. The downside to keeping track is that you know exactly how much money you've spent on ammo

[Rocket35]

I have tracked the round count on all my guns for the last few years... I think it helps stave off malfunctions due to spring failure and helps diagnos some problems that may arise. I also note when and what work is done to the gun/magazines. I use an excel program.

Maintenance Log

[JKSNIPER]

Logbook kept in the gun case or in my range bag.

Logbooks available from different sources.

Creedmoor sports, Sinclair International, or Iron Brigade Armory all carry round count and data books.

JK

[Nik Habicht]

Bart,

I used to, but don't anymore. If you want to keep an accurate count, then by all means chart chrono rounds and count rounds at matches. It's fairly easy to find ejected rounds or to at least make a mental note.....

[HuskySig]

I keep an Excel spreadsheet for each pistol that I own. I can tell exactly how many rounds I have fired through a particular pistol and how long ago the last spring change occurred.

[Jman]

"I can't count"

Ask jasmap

But I'll try.

The G17...a pile.

The G35...a $h!t load.

Jim

[waxman]

Might not be as accurate, but I just count bullets as they arrive. I know when they are gone, they have all been through a certain gun, since all 3 "game guns" are different caliber.

[XD Niner]

I keep an Excel spreadsheet for each pistol that I own. I can tell exactly how many rounds I have fired through a particular pistol and how long ago the last spring change occurred.

Me too. I like knowing how many rounds have been fired since the last maintenance as well as how many I shoot on an annual basis.

[HSMITH]

I count primer sleeves.

[Flatland Shooter]

I'm like Waxman.

I keep track of the number of bullets I have purchased and the date purchased. I also keep track of the my powder and primer useage.

A separate book is used to keep track of chrono data, loading data, gun part changes, etc.

Bill

[Steve J]

What gun, how many rounds, what event, total rounds, when springs were changed and parts upgraded. Detail records going back to... well, the beginning.

ETA: oh, and total rounds per month.

Edited August 17, 2008 by Steve J

[Micah]

My Glock 34 has 38,723 rounds though it, and 1,001,762 dryfire rounds through it.

Don't believe me? Ask Michael Phelps!

Seriously though I gauge it roughly in the thousands, something easily done when you load your own ammo. This is done primarily to keep tabs on the abuse that various springs take over a season and whether or not they need to be replaced. I'm not a fan of waiting for something to break before replacing it...particularly when it is a $2 part

[Merlin Orr]

I keep a general round count and at 3K rounds I just replace the gun.

[Chris Keen]

...particularly when it is a $2 part

Isnt everything on a Glock a $2 part ?

[dcarter]

No. Too much work for a production gun. Now if I were shooting open and had spent the kind of money that (I don't have) I probably would.

[Paul Burtchell]

According to our classifed forum there are never any guns for sale that have more than 5,000 rounds through them.

[XRe]

According to our classifed forum there are never any guns for sale that have more than 5,000 rounds through them.

And that should tell you something....

[AikiDale]

Each of my guns has 5 rounds through it.

[EZ Bagger]

Voted yes, but my count is only based on cases of bullets loaded/used. So, I can't say exactly, but can be within a few hundred rounds.

[Seth]

I know by how many orders of bullets I've placed. Its close enough. I used to be super anal with a logbook, but haven't bothered anymore. I may have to with the STI, since its been giving me fits.

[BNorth]

I keep an Excel spreadsheet for each pistol that I own. I can tell exactly how many rounds I have fired through a particular pistol and how long ago the last spring change occurred.

+1

I started using an Excel spreadsheet last year when I got my new limited gun.

[sfinney]

I ordered bullets in bulk for my Limited gun. I knew plus or minus 500 how many rounds were fired through it by checking bullet stock, and knowing how often I'd re-ordered, over a course of months or years.... but thats it.

[mark dye]

I tear the tab and upc code off the primer boxes (each box of 1000) and write the gun they were used in on the back side. I toss these in a tub on my loading bench. I can get a reasonably accurate count at years end by simply counting up the tabs. I am just not anal enough to worry about super exact counts or spreadsheets. BTW the frame on my SV limited gun built in 1999 is up to 93,000 rounds! The top end was replaced at 42k. For years this was my only gun.

Mark Dye

[RacerX1166]

For competition pieces, I look at my load log and, since I only have one of each pretty much at any one time, it's a Loaded - Current Inventory = round count.

Other guns that get shot occasionally? Not too concerned.