How many rounds do you shoot?

[Samdweezel05]

In one trip to the range for just practice, how many rounds do you shoot out of your 6BR or variant.

 

[Frankr]

what do you mean?
How many rounds before cleaning?
I shoot 16 rounds before cleaning most of the time.
on occasion i have shot 26 rounds before cleaning.
but perfer 6 rounds and clean if i wasent so lazy.
How many rounds do i shoot per range session, varies. I have two ranges very close to me so some times i pop in and shoot 6 rounds and if its busy i go to my private club range and most of the time nobody is ever there except on mondays(cant shoot there on mondays)club day.also depends on how many rifles i take with me.

 

[Samdweezel05]

what do you mean?
How many rounds before cleaning?
I shoot 16 rounds before cleaning most of the time.
on occasion i have shot 26 rounds before cleaning.
but perfer 6 rounds and clean if i wasent so lazy.
How many rounds do i shoot per range session, varies. I have two ranges very close to me so some times i pop in and shoot 6 rounds and if its busy i go to my private club range and most of the time nobody is ever there except on mondays(cant shoot there on mondays)club day.also depends on how many rifles i take with me.

So that means you only shoot 6 rounds from a single rifle in one trip to the range? I guess I was asking because I wonder if there is a "too much shooting" that can be done with a single target rifle for practice. I take at least 200 hand loads for my .22-250 when I go to the range. Can't say I have ever cleaned a rifle at the range. Yeah, I know. I don't do barrel break in either.

 

[Frankr]

yes i have stoped to just shoot 6 rounds at times, for testing..something or to unload a few cases to load something else in them.
WOW 200 rounds in one trip to the range, i think that is alot..
And not cleaning in 200 rounds is not something i would due to one of my rifles nowdays, im not going to say i never done that(once) and when it quit shooting it took a week of soaking to get it clean, so i just dont do that anymore.
but hey if that is what you like,great.. but im more into accuracry and i like to keep my barrels clean and the most rounds i ever shoot is if im hunting and that has been about 40 rounds before i cleaned.

 

[Samdweezel05]

Yeah, 200 rounds and accuracy doesn't change very much. My last 6br fell on it's face after 16 shots. Never had any issues cleaning after 200 rounds. The new build will be done soon and I can't wait to get out and shoot it. I will take a bore snake with me to the range for this one but not much else.

 

[Cheechako]

Sam

I can't help it - I've got to ask. 200 rounds for practice with no cleaning and no barrel break-in?

1. What are you practicing to do?
2. How many practice trips to the range before the barrel is toast?
3. What sort of accuracy do you get at the beginning and end of the day?

Ray

 

[Samdweezel05]

Sam

I can't help it - I've got to ask. 200 rounds for practice with no cleaning and no barrel break-in?

1. What are you practicing to do?
2. How many practice trips to the range before the barrel is toast?
3. What sort of accuracy do you get at the beginning and end of the day?

Ray

I am practicing to not clean my barrel ;D.
After 2,100 rounds the favorite .22-250 is still in the 1's and 2's at 100yds
Accuracy sucks right out of the case. Usually 10 rounds before it will shoot. After 200 rounds 3 shot groups will still measure no more than .350" CTC at 100yds. It's just a 14 twist so it's a 100/200yd rifle only

Here is a picture of normal 200 round performance and it was done from the tailgate of a truck in the wind and 34 degrees out side. I just had to get out and shoot something. I "found" the dime on the ground where I was shooting. Looks like there is 2 holes in it. The shooter could have run out of ammo before the 3rd shot could be placed in it.

 

[jonbearman]

Go get em sam.I like it.The rifle plain shoots.What kind of barrel do you use?

 

[deadlyswift]

I have never pushed a barrel to 200rnds with out cleaning but come very close. 180 is the most at this point. I shoot F class and will shoot practice day and all weekend with out running a single patch down the barrel untill I get home from the match. I don't have to spend a week cleaning it either. Now if I was to do this with a factory barrel that would be a different story. I wouldn't clean all weekend, but yes I might spend a week soaking and cleaning the barrel. If I was to shoot on sat, go back to the hotel room clean my barrel then my first relay on Sun. I would probably spend 3/4 of my first relay chasing things until the barrel was fouled and settled down. Hence this causing me to drop several points. A friend's son shot a 198 11x at 500yd fresh out of the gate with almost 400 rnds with out cleaning. Too much cleaning can give you very inconsistent groups from string to string just as bad as not cleaning. I don't clean unless accuraccy drops off with out any other explaintion.

 

[Samdweezel05]

Go get em sam.I like it.The rifle plain shoots.What kind of barrel do you use?

That's the budget build. Stevens 200 action, used A&B barrel that was sold at midway when they sold the stainless fluted ones, used B&C medalist stock not bedded, used BSA 36x scope. $550 total invested. Kind of scares me how well it shoots. From a real bench the best group to date is .158" 3 shot at 100yds and that would have been with about 100 rounds after the last cleaning.

 

[deadlyswift]

Sam like I said above! from the pic you have posted. I would just shoot the thing until accuracy falls off. Once that happens. Clean it. Load 20 pe of virgin brass to fire form and foul the barrel. Then just let it keep hammering until it want hammer no more!

 

[lmorrison17]

Recently the only shooting I have done is for testing a Dasher. I average about 60 rounds a trip and usually clean once in the middle and again when I'm done.
Larry

 

[Samdweezel05]

Sam like I said above! from the pic you have posted. I would just shoot the thing until accuracy falls off. Once that happens. Clean it. Load 20 pe of virgin brass to fire form and foul the barrel. Then just let it keep hammering until it want hammer no more!

That's exactly what I do now. Another interesting fact is that I have never used any copper remover in this barrel over the 2100 rounds and I have never had to "soak" it to get accuracy back where it belongs.

 

[RDavies]

This barrel sounds like my curent main 284 barrel, it doesnt shoot for the 1st 10 shots, then just gets better until I have finished shooting a 200 shot Queens Prize shoot. My other top competition barrel, a 6 Dasher is the opposite, after cleaning, 1st shot is about 1/2 moa low, then the 2nd to 23rd shots are all in the X, but it dies rapidly after 23 shots??????

All barrels are different.