Question of the Day: How Often Do You Go Shooting?

Like to get out a couple times a month, maybe once for rifles and once for handguns. Ammo’s too expensive to shoot much more than that IMHO.

Not nearly enough. Haven’t shot my pistol in probably 2 months. Need to make time in my studies.

About twice weekly on average, but that ranges from every day to once or twice a month depending on outside factors. My shooting is mostly handgun drills limited to 100 rounds or so, but sometimes it’s only a couple three-round groups when sighting in a rifle.

This is all done in a close-by area of the Black Hills National Forest that’s popular with recreational shooters, but also used by the local PD and sheriff’s department for training.

Another “not near enougher” here probably 1-2X a month. Start getting antsy after that; Need to make up more ammo anyways my stash is growing kinda thin in the hand gun caliber department.

Once a week at least at a great indoor range here in Colorado Springs:

https://whistlingpinesgunclub.com/

Thank goodness it’s 10 minutes from home or work. Since it’s indoors, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night…” applies. It has increased my frequency of shooting at least fivefold.

O2*

*I am a member of the club but otherwise unassociated with it in any other way.

I try to go every other day. Or at least once a week. During nights after work or weekends usually. .22 LR pistol for Bullseye practice.About 50-100 rds each session. .45 ACP maybe once or twice per season. West side Rifle and Pistol range in lower westside in Manhattan.

Range time at least once a week, and coach the shooting clinic once a week where I often don’t get to shoot myself. No more than a dozen rounds or so used each time, to verify my dry fire practice. I do need to take my HD shotgun and at least one rifle out much more often. Can’t use the club rifle range for the shotgun, and have to deal with the shotty bunch at the separate range, so it doesn’t happen much.

Where in the Black Hills, Don? I’m in Newcastle, Wyoming.

#everydayisrangeday

A couple times a week. The club is only 2 miles from my driveway.
Since I go there to check on the place often, I’ll pop a few caps.

I get to the range a couple times a month on average, sometimes to actually practice, other times to just have fun.

Just got into shooting again after not going to the range for a few years. Aim is still pretty good…buying another gun this month(3rd since December) and maybe a cheap AR after. No nearby outdoor ranges so I’ll need to find that. And I have to get the wife up to speed. And AMMO!

Surprisingly very little considering I can go out my back door and shoot rifle, shotty, or pistol. Its been a couple months since I last shot, not counting taking down a couple of feral dogs that were after my livestock. I gotta get out there and practice some drills although I sometimes fear that shooting alone or with the family I might just be reinforcing some bad habits.

Wife and I bust caps 2X per week at an indoor range. Rifle not as often, especially in F’edUP CA. We typically shoot 9mm and 45. When we do go to the rifle range, it’s with a SOCOM that We both love to shoo.

Once a week at AFS if I’m lucky, twice a month if I’m not. Sigh.

Before going off to college, once a week. Currently I’m lucky to do once a month when I go home. No outdoor ranges in Orange County CA really keeps me from going more too.

Once or twice a week.

I used to go 1-2 times a month. Last year I went 3-4 times the whole year. Not nearly enough. It will be another year or two before my schedule allows more frequent visits.

More than a NY cop, but less than a Chicago gangbanger.

I go do some shootin’ about 4 times a year. I have three friends within 1 mile of me who have a dirt berm (outdoors of course) and are kind enough to let me shoot pretty much any time that I want. All three of them are close enough that my family at home can hear me shooting if they are outside.

While I could go every week, I figure that might get kind of old for them and I don’t want to wear out my welcome. (On the 8th day of a particularly intense continuous string of days sighting-in various rifles for hunting season, a neighbor walked over and asked me to stop. While I was under no obligation to give my friend’s neighbor the time of day, I knocked-off anyway.)

At least once a week, sometimes twice

Usually twice a week, weather and other stuff permitting. I try to make one of those days a month a dedicated rifle day.

Every Sunday from Oct-May. Then it gets too hot and I may go once or twice until October rolls around. I can deal with outdoor shooting in freezing cold but not in the heat and humidity.

Once a week with live ammo in winter where we have a place to shoot. When I can while on the road, April thru October. Laser Target every couple of days while on the road.
All handgun, defensive style.

I go to the indoor range every Saturday. 50 rounds downrange, mostly pistol or revolver EDCs.

About 6 times a year I get to the club for a day of rifle & pistol shooting with friends. As I get closer to retirement, I’ll be getting to the club more often (and reloading more).

Monday is date night at the range for me and the wifey. Then I supplement that with some back yard range work or trap shooting. Don’t shoot the AR that much. That fucker’s loud as shit. Need a suppressor for my wife’s Mossberg MVP 5.56 and she would be more into the back yard shoot. I did get her out there with the SR22 today. Nymph deer ticks are already active here in GA.

Read all the comments again as if the question was:
How often do you have sex?

I try to go once a week. Sat or Sun. My range lets members go from sun up to sun down. I go early before range is open to the public and it gets Texas hot.

I shoot every off monday and wednesday. That works out to about 4 days a month. I wish I could shoot more but it is what it is.

Usually on Sunday afternoons when the indoor range opens up. I sometimes go during the week. The owner is opening a second range closer to my husband’s office, so he may be able to go during the week, next Fall.

For ammo, I pay $50.00 per year for free shipping from Brownell’s, then shop their sales. So, on sale, no sales tax and no shipping costs saves me money over the local retailers. I’ve checked a couple of other sites, the sales are better, but when I add the shipping charges, I head back to Brownell’s.

My range is just about 20 feet to the left of my driveway, unless it’s raining, in which case I shoot from the porch. For all that though, I only shoot a few occasions per month. Between time constraints and ammo cost, I just dont shoot as much as I used to. Perhaps when summer finally drags itself back around I’ll shoot more. I know my wife would like that, which definitely helps with the motivation.

Question for everyone :
Should I get NRA instructor certification to start teaching pistol fundamentals?
I have no quals so far so I would have to take the online course, $60, the basic pistol course, $300, the instructor course, $300, then $50 for the certificate that expires every two years.
So that’s over $700 if I didn’t leave anything out. Is it worth it just to use on my resume? Is there liability protection with the certificate? Seems like a large investment for a guy that’s just going to freelance.

Depends on the weather. Usually 3-4 times per month during the winter, when I have to truck to an indoor range. In the summer….trap on any decent Wednesday, range day on sunny Saturdays. Probably averages to six trips a month.

Thanks to SIRT, everyday.

At the rate I’m going, about once a year. Between work, weather, money (or lack thereof), and finding a place to go to shoot, I don’t get to go much at all. When the weather is nice, I’m either stuck at work, or don’t have the gas to drive anywhere. Last year, I had a single box of ammo to shoot, no money to get more, and I shot all of what I had the one time I actually went. So far this year, I’ve only shot when my wife an I took our conceal carry class last month. But now, instead of my SR9C being the sole gun in the house, my wife bought an SD9VE, my son finally got the Henry .22 his grandfather left him, and I acquired a second-hand ATI 1911 and a new M&P Sport II. And yes, I stocked up on ammo. So now, I just have to find a place to go and hope the weather isn’t crap on my one day off each week (short staffed at work so I’m stuck pulling 6-day work weeks).

I shoot myself in the ballz with my airsoft every morning.

Lhstr, well I reload everything except my 5.7. Still pricey, but I’m not one to fool with, practice, practice, practice. You now how the story!!!. Gotta keep ready for anything, the rest is just plain bull shit!. Be safe out there.

Sounds like Austin City Limits the amount you’re able to shoot…

Twice a week. Outdoor range. 80% rifle, 20% pistol.

Retirement is great

I average once a week, but some weeks things happen, so I double-up the next week. Usually Three weeks in the month with pistol and one with rifle ( 5.56 NATO or 22LR). Once the weather warms I go once a month to a range in the Local Mountains and shoot .30 Cal or Black Powder. Don’t know if I can keep this up once CA Ammo Laws kick in this Summer. We’ll see.

Once a month, if that. I haven’t been very consistent this year.

It used to be 2-4 times / year.

This past year or so I’ve gotten out much more often, say about 1-2 times every 2 months. Not enough to justify a range membership in my mind.

Time is also split between a local indoor range or going up into the mountains around Seattle to do some plinking in our local shooting pits. My preference is the shooting pits but they are seasonal and take about an hour and a half one-way to reach. In the winter they are buried under several feet of snow and much of the time there is a chance of rain in the area.

But, when I can, I go to the pits and take the rifles.

Every other week on a weekend, usually. I wish I went more though.

Unfortunately i live in England..
But twice a year i go to Poland to shoot AR, AK, and pistols in their range… (they have great selection, but its 2000mile drive).
Other than that its Air rifle and co2 pistols in back garden few times a month.
And airsoft game once a month.

Whenever I want year round, my own range.

I shoot on average every other day.

Zero times in the past couple years. Too busy and failed to find a good range. Should be able to fix both of those soon.

I shoot pretty much every other sunday and a rate of about 500-600 rounds of 9mm and 100-150 rounds of 5.45.

2-4 times a year. Just too busy with other things in life.