How much ammo

[juststarting]

There's a pretty clear line from what I see here... 2 categories:

1. people who love target shooting and take their time with every shot.
2. heathens (me) - those who love target shooting BUT also love just shooting.

This is where the confusion is from, methinks. Some of us just enjoy shooting stuff. Not talking about clovers, just fun, offhand at targets at various distances, etc. Doesn't have to be tight, just have to hit it. Takes all sorts

[Mongrel]

. Some of us just enjoy shooting stuff. Not talking about clovers, just fun, offhand at targets at various distances, etc. Doesn't have to be tight, just have to hit it. Takes all sorts

Yep thats me

[Wylie27]

Lol Brett pick the pistol shooter!

For me, 200+ rounds for anything semi auto.

150+ for my rimfire rifle and maybe 100 for my .223 as I am not hand loading them yet and it's a hunting rifle only. I just practice a lot on the rimfire rifle.

[Mitch]

100 for the 223, 50 for the 7mm, and 500 for the 22

[bigfellascott]

Depends on where I'm going hunting and what for, generally for me I just take a box of reloads for the day (100rds) - In the old days when I was going away for a week culling etc I'd take 4 or 5 x that sometimes more depending on what we were doing.

I always take more than I should need cos I don't want the inconvenience of running out, easier to take some home than stuff around trying to find ammo in some of the outback places where we frequented back then.

[bigfellascott]

. Some of us just enjoy shooting stuff. Not talking about clovers, just fun, offhand at targets at various distances, etc. Doesn't have to be tight, just have to hit it. Takes all sorts

Yep thats me

And me! I quite enjoy shooting a few gongs off hand at all sorts of ranges with the 22's and centrefires,

[wade06]

I've got about 500 22 rounds in the safe... When hunting rabbits I normally take about 50 rounds in 1 box. Eley sub HP, CCI Quiet Segmented (for mynas) and HV HP (in a second magazine in case I see a fox inside 100m).

Got a box of CCI velocitor the other day to test.

[Browning]

A weekend away (only done once) 60 308 rounds and 2000 22 rounds


2000 rounds for a weekend?!
I mean this in the least critical way but what are you shooting? Flies?
Crikey, for a weekend of culling I'd never need more than 150-200 22-250 rounds, a box or two of shotty and a box of 50 22's...
I've found the more I go the less I realise I need to take.....
I only go to the range 2-3 times a year and I must admit I'm staggered at how much ammo some people go through......
By the sounds of this thread I need to buy shares in bloody CCI or hornady maybe

[Mongrel]

A weekend away (only done once) 60 308 rounds and 2000 22 rounds


2000 rounds for a weekend?!
I mean this in the least critical way but what are you shooting? Flies?e

LOL, never owned a 22 before and there was a few pple shooting....in the end we used almost 1500 of them plinking homemade targets, pots and anything we thought would be hard to hit, while trecking around the property

[juststarting]

Bounce few cans across the paddock and those self resetting/flipping .22 targets - easy 500 rounds through my lever action.

[bladeracer]

I was just sorting out my new ammo carry box and got me thinking,

How much ammo do you guys carry?


A day at the range i will take 20-40 308 rounds or 100-200 22 rounds

A weekend away (only done once) 60 308 rounds and 2000 22 rounds

Or a week away, i cant comment

Be interesting to see what others take


Jamie

If I'm doing a morning fox patrol I just take six fox loads in the mag of the .204 and four Trailboss loads in my pocket just in case.
Haven't been to a rifle range since I was a kid, but intending to get out there Wednesday after next with a lot of luck. I plan to take a hundred in 7mm-08 and .204, and I might take a brick of LR if I decide to take a .22.
If I'm just going up the paddock for some practice I'll shoot maybe 150 to 200 rimfire (I like to have a lot of different types of .22LR on hand - I picked up some Velocitors last week to try out), or maybe twenty rounds in a centrefire or two. If I'm shooting load development, then generally not more than 50rds (depends on what phase I'm at), but I'll walk back and load some more if I can fit in another session. Outside of load development I don't do much real "practice" with the centrefires (that's what rimfires are for), but I'll take them out every week or two just to confirm zeros for peace of mind. Last week I managed to burn up some .22LR, .204, 8x57mm, 12-gauge and even put four balls through the muzzle loader.
If I'm going to be out for a few days, a dozen heavy loads and 30-50 varmint loads for whichever centrefire I'm taking (I live in hope of stumbling upon a nice busy rabbit warren like we had in the old days).
When I was shooting IPSC pistol we generally shot a 100-round competition, over several courses of fire, but I would take a few hundred in case anybody else needed some. If I was up there on my own during the week I'd take 500rds.