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When did you fire a gun since the great ammo depression
roswellnative
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Although always described as a cowboy, Roswellnative generally acts as a righter of wrongs or bodyguard of some sort, where he excels thanks to his resourcefulness and incredible gun prowesses.
When did you fire a gun since the great ammo depression 44 votes
Today
18%
8 votes
This week
29%
13 votes
This month
15%
7 votes
1-3 months
11%
5 votes
3-6 months
4%
2 votes
6-12 months
0%
Last deer season I hunted
6%
3 votes
Last dove season I hunted
0%
Pre-pandemic
6%
3 votes
My guns don't fire on the lake bottom, besides my Ammo IS my retirement
6%
3 votes
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Usually practice at least twice a week
very rarely. i have a fair supply of ammo and do reload, i just dont feel very anxious to use it.
I'll answer the poll later. Plan on shooting a couple rounds of skeet about 3 hours from now. Answering the skeet/trap question in ask the experts gave me a hankering to use up some of my hoarded ammo. That's o.k. because I wouldn't want it to get stale. 😀 Bob
I try to get in a couple of rounds of continental trap each weekend.
shot up 100 or so 22lr, and about he same 38's few weeks back, not even a small dent in the stockpile.........
I shot a few rounds of .22 at about 1000 today. I plan on shooting some more this afternoon.
I shoot about every other day, mostly a .22 rifle.
Hold on...I gotta open the window..........................................okay...I'm good...😐️
i used to shoot up 10-20 dollars if i worked at it. But now with ammo. with some ammo like a buck a round its there goes 50 ... also I live in the city but I would bet the avg shooter is shooting 20 percent of pre pan
About 60 percent for me....
O.K. I made it back from the club and proudly checked today on the poll. Only shot one round of skeet because the weather was hot and the beer in the cooler was cold. After the guns were put away we all had a couple of cold ones and complained about how poor we shot tonight after not shooting much this past year+. I at least convinced a few that we should get back to our every Wednesday night shooting.
I really didn't feel that bad with my 23 out of 25 bird round but because of not shooting in so long nothing felt natural. A few more weeks should get me back to normal and at that point a 23 will really tick me off. Gone are the days of shooting a flat of shells every week but 4 or 5 rounds of skeet or maybe a little trap or clays should get me back up to where I was pre-covid. At least that's the plan. Bob
I'm not a huge fan of surveys, but this one is well structured. It's been over a month since I was at the range. I have a new suppressor to test, and I haven't done it.
I don't like to go shooting alone, so I'll take the copout that with my two primary shooting buddies out of town I simply ignored the issue. Both of them are back, so I need to get out to the range!
Yesterday, caught a ground squirrel coming out from under the 3pt mower. Don't like those ankle twisting burrows.
Yesterday
8 rounds out of my 22 amt pistol
Just checking it out
Two dang groundhogs moved in last week and have started a burrow under my pole barn
Hope to see them and do some shooting if not plan b will burn /smoke them out or kill them in the hole
At least several times a week, as in testing customers guns that were in for repairs / service. Have started to ask customers to bring me ammo for testing their guns as my ammo locker is looking like Mother Hubbard's Cupboard. Use to be a detail strip, clean, inspect, lube and test of say a Browning BAR would include running 4 rounds through it to make sure all is well. This past deer season had 5 BAR's come in, all in .270 Winchester. Never more than 1 maybe 2 in .270 a season. Always had ammo. Well I ran out and was more than happy to pay a guy $20.00 at a gunshow for 13 rounds of Federal 130 grain.
For myself, about once a week, just a few. Yesterday was 5 rounds out of my Winchester 94 in .38-55, just 'cause I ain't shot it since last deer season sight-in. Next, I'm thinking that at least 1 maybe 2 en-blocks of LC 69 will go out of the Garand.
Younger son was in the shop awhile back, looking in the ammo locker for some 10 gauge. Told him that before I died, I planned to shoot up everything in the locker and not leave him and his brother any. He just rolled his eyes, took a few rounds of 10 gauge to pattern a new choke tube and went outside.