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General Topics => General Discussion => Topic started by: suka on February 24, 2014, 04:50:46 AM

Title: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: suka on February 24, 2014, 04:50:46 AM
I live way to far to drive to the range regularly.
Leeward side.

My takings to the range is about 6-7 guns out of my 56 gun lot in hawaii alone. No safe queens all shooters.

I try to make it down there at least twice when back on island.
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: dustoff003 on February 24, 2014, 05:00:45 AM
I live Leeward also my collection is no where near as large as yours. The most I have brought recently is 5 guns but yesterday was just 2 rifles and 1 pistol. I usually will go with 3-4 friends and we will all bring different firearms most of common overlapping calibers and just shoot each other's stuff.
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: suka on February 24, 2014, 05:04:25 AM
That would be cool.
I always seem to shoot alone.
None of my friends or family likes guns.
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: Kingkeoni on February 24, 2014, 06:41:45 AM
I usually go shooting with at least a couple people everytime.

I used to be the guy that brought 6 or 7 guns.

Everybody would shoot my stuff but the problem is that I always got stuck cleaning the guns myself.

Nowadays I bring only 1-2 guns on a range trip.

If I can, I bring no guns and just provide the ammo while shooting my friends guns.
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: macsak on February 24, 2014, 06:48:56 AM
That would be cool.
I always seem to shoot alone.
None of my friends or family likes guns.

just post when you are going and 2aHI members usually report if they are going or what bench they are at
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: Sturmgeschutz on February 24, 2014, 07:13:15 AM
As many as I stand to clean in one evening
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: Kanakamaoli23 on February 24, 2014, 07:25:18 AM
Generally I bring two rifles and two pistols. If no benches I shoot pistol first, if get benches I shoot rifle first.
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: stangzilla on February 24, 2014, 07:31:53 AM
1-2
too lazy to clean much more than that.
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: Funtimes on February 24, 2014, 09:39:05 AM
Quote from my sig armorer course:

"#1 Problem causing breakage of peoples guns: They clean them too much."
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: Darmok and Jalad @Tanagra on February 24, 2014, 09:55:04 AM
I try to make it to the range between 11:00 and 12:00.  Seems the morning crowd is leaving for lunch, so finding a spot is easy.

I normally have from 1-3 people with me.  Sometimes I don't even shoot much.  I stand there reload mags and keep an eye on the others particularly if they aren't seasoned shooters.

We'll spend 1 1/2 hours or so on the pistol range, then switch to rifles.  We leave sometime between 3:00 and closing depending on what else we have to do that afternoon.

Number of pistols range from 2 to 4, depending on what others are interested in trying.  I try to not take too many varieties of caliber, because the ammo can get quite heavy.

Number of rifles is usually 2-4.  I always take at least one .22LR and an AR-15.  If someone wants to try a Mosin or my AK-47, I'll bring a 91/30, an M44, and/or my Arsenal AK..


It might take that night and the next night to clean them all, but I don't really mind.  I work on computers all day, so doing something different is relaxing.

I supply all the ammo, do all the prep, make all the targets, haul everything outside and back inside, and do all the cleaning.  Who said doing something for others is supposed to be easy? 

I especially enjoy taking new/not-very-recent shooters out.  They really get a kick out of the Mosins!   >:D
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: Rocky on February 24, 2014, 10:31:58 AM

If I can, I bring no guns and just provide the ammo while shooting my friends guns.
:geekdanc:   :thumbsup:   :rofl:
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: Funtimes on February 24, 2014, 10:41:11 AM
I want enough guns in the car that it leaves the bumper  scraping.  :P
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: Funtimes on February 24, 2014, 10:42:05 AM
If I can, I bring no guns and just provide the ammo while shooting my friends guns.

Great strategy KK !
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: Jl808 on February 24, 2014, 11:25:29 AM
1-2 on a pistol day.

1-2 on a rifle day.
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: Kingkeoni on February 24, 2014, 05:55:35 PM
Great strategy KK !

It works for everyone involved.

I provide ammo for me and my friend and he gets stuck with the cleaning.

Everyone wins.
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: BLKDRGN on February 24, 2014, 06:22:15 PM
The more guns you bring the more you got to clean. The last time I went down I brought down 6 pistols and 4 rifles.
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: Lifer on February 24, 2014, 07:21:19 PM
On average. 2 pistols, 2 rifles.

I always  have the 2 is 1, 1 is none mentality

Last weekend, I invited a friend and his son to shoot so that called for 4 rifles and 6 pistols....he had fun O0
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: Antithesis on February 24, 2014, 11:30:38 PM
Usually just 1-2. 
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: sworbeyegib on February 25, 2014, 03:19:24 AM
It depends on whether I will be shooting at the rifle side, steel side, trap side or all three.  It also depends who I'm going with, and whether I'll be bringing any new shooters along too.  Usually at least my AR, my .22lr AR, my shotgun (if it is a sunday), and at least one handgun.
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: causa mortis on February 26, 2014, 02:14:29 PM
At most about 4 (2 rifles and 2 pistols). As others have said, the cleaning is the limiting factor.
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: 338KID on February 26, 2014, 03:20:28 PM
Most times 4 rifles and maybe a handgun every now and then . It's pretty much just me and my dad
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: dustoff003 on February 26, 2014, 06:42:07 PM
WD-40 eh?
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: 1911 on February 26, 2014, 07:58:02 PM
I typically don't clean one short of several thousand rds fired thru the handgun, or several hundred thru the centerfire rifle. Just another shot of WD40 and shoot some more.  I once fired  24,000 rds of cast bullet handloads thur a .45 1911 in 6 weeks. I cleaned the Colt 8x in that period.  2 of the times were to demo to students how it is done. No malfuntions blamable on the gun, altho a couple of old  GI mags fell apart.  Some parts broke, and I swapped them when I noticed, but the gun kept working.

Wait!!!!

How many firearms do you bring to the range?

 :stopjack:
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: NoScade on February 27, 2014, 07:41:08 AM
These days I only bring around 3 rifles since my sons hardly shoot now
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: SOLEsource684 on February 27, 2014, 08:43:24 AM
I bring my HD pistol every range trip and maybe one or two other handguns. And since ammo is expensive and scarce these days every other range trip I bring my rifle. I clean after every range trip since I shoot the cheap stuff.
Title: Re: How many firearms do you bring to the range?
Post by: Bota-CS1 on February 27, 2014, 08:49:15 AM
It depends on what I'm doing at the range, but usually 2 -3.