How many rounds do you use?

[sa-shooter]

This is primarily for the IPSC and IDPA shooters

How many rounds do you run through your FA in a given month. Obviously all of you reload so how much do you invest in a month on reloading consumables (ie powder, primers ect)?

SAS

[Psychosis]

On average, 2 Club Shoots (150 rounds total)... 1 League match (150 rounds) and some practice sessions (250 rounds a time, twice a month, sometimes more)... is about 800 to 1000 rounds a month.

R1.30 per round... you can work it out I guess?

And that is just pistol (excludes shotgun).

[Tim_CZ]

Not nearly enough...
200-300 per month.
Should hopefully increase when I start IPSC with the IDPA.

The new Sports Shooter magazine has a nice break down of costs involved in reloading.

R300/1000 primers (cheap russian primers)
R300/MP200
R700/1000 124g CMJ
Brass picked up at one of the indoor ranges...
+-R1.30 a round.

Costs depend on quantity bought and type of bullets/powder/primers. 100 CMJ bullets will cost more per bullet than 1000 bullets, ditto primers. I have some winchester primers that were +R400/1000 and were the only primers I could get during the drought.

[Anomander]

My limitation is that I don't reload yet (meaning I'm looking at R3+ per round), as I have a gun that is probably not ideal for reloaded lead bullets.

Once I address that concern, I hope to push up my round count considerably. At the moment it is so low you regular shooters will laugh at me.

[sa-shooter]

thanx for the input guys

[luckoftheirishza]

Between 300 and 600 if I'm lucky. Still too broke to shoot more.

Reload .40 at around R2.30 (all in with once fired brass that I bought) and have yet to start reloading for the .45, bought factory ammo to make some brass at around R6 a pop.

Will cry once the FAL gets here though. Will seriously need a 9mm.

[Tetelestai]

At the moment investing in a lot of training so my figures are maybe a bit off but it would vary anywhere between 300 to 800 per month of 9mm. On average probably 400 - a SADPA League match and club match with a small quantity to spare.

[Gazza_101]

There are four people in my family that are shooting and we are shooting (IPSC) a lot, I always tend to take extra to league matches, and also to club shoots, so if the four us all go and shoot at a league 1000 rounds is normally enough just for that match with a few to spare so we take 200 each with the extra 200 rounds I do this because I would rather have left over than run out, there are normally a few left over, I estimate that we are shooting about 600 - 800 a month each, that's with all the events, normally a club shoot, league, and practice, and occasionally a steel challenge. P.S we all chip in and and are reloading together. Luckily we all shooting 9mm P.

[Optimistix]

Before I bought a house and funds became an issue, I was practicing 200 rounds a day, five days a week (on the range every afternoon after work), plus two league matches per month (I would say about 120 to 150 rounds per match) ... I mainly do these type of figures for a month or two before a big match. The rest of the time I shoot about 400 rounds a week if work allows me to get to the range before dark.

At the moment I am lucky if I get to shoot 300 rounds a week, but hopefully that and the financial situation will change for teh better again soon and I can get back to the range more frequently again ...

[Enzo]

I dry fire about a 1000 times a week. Live ammo about 150 to 200 a week.

All in cost is about a grand a month