Ninety percent of your shooting ?

[hammer]

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Not to be confused with the "If I could have only one gun" question...



But which handguns make up 90% of your actual shooting ?

Calibers ?
Makes ?
Models ?


Is the remaining 10% for very specific needs, e.g., a 500 Long Linebaugh for cape buffalo ?

Or is the other 10% just because you have something that you need to shoot every once in a while to justify to yourself keeping it ?

Not asking about family heirlooms or collections, but shooting guns.


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[Fowler]

I find most of my shooting over the last year is 44sp and 480 revolvers. Mostly because they are the most recent gun to be added to the collection and I really like these 3 guns. The 2 44sp are a 4 5/8" flat top and a 5 1/2" Flat top the 480 is a Freedom Arms that I find I have to shot a lot to be good with it, it simply takes more dedication that Rugers in my hands.

3 years ago it was rare that I shot anything that was not a 45 colt or a 45acp, I am not giving up one those great calibers but of late they have been used far less than the others.

In the last couple of weeks I have started to shoot mu 32 mag Buckeye again and remember why it is such a great training aid for big guns that recoil. Sure does help keep me settled and shooting the big guns better...

[cas]

90% (+) of my shooting is 45 ACP, spread out over a number of pistols.

[coyote]

45LC in handguns (USFA Storekeeper, Turnbull SA & Ruger Montado) and a rifle (Marlin 1894) for about 45%.

22LR in handguns (Smiths M18 & M63 and Ruger Bearcat) and a rifle (Marlin 39A Mountie) for 45%.

other 10% are "defensive calibers": 32acp, 38sp, 9mm, 45acp, etc

[COR]

Lately it has been the 44Spl or 45 Colt, but in my life I have to say the 22LR has the longest run. I still always take one to the range. They are great fun between barrel coolings on the bigger bores with some clay pigeons on the 50yd line.

[COR]

Guns...

22- Single Six, Bearcat, MKII

44's - JQ 44Spl by Clements, 44 FT 5.5" by Ruger

Ruger Bisley 45Colt SS 5 1/2"

[razor]

Most of the time,something with 45 Colt on the barrel.

[AxeHandle]

Whatever the new gun is... Been solid 44 Special/Mag for a while now... Expecting it to be .375 bore TCs for the next few weeks...

[rep1954]

10% 44 Magnum shot in Rugers
30% 22LR/22WRF/22WRM in Rugers and Colts
30% 38SPL./357 Magnum in Rugers and Colts
30% 45ACP/45 Colt currently all Colts

[joeg0812]

Since I do cowboy mounted shooting, and we are into the season, the majority has been .45 blanks with a couple of my Rugers. Real bullets would be my converted Flattop .44 Sp.

[aciera]

To study what I do wrong, a High Standard or Beretta 22 semiauto.
Then maybe a HP or 1911.

Walking around plinkin' is a Bisley Vaquero in 45 Colt I want to get better at. The Colt is the largest eater of time and brass. I still have to think too much. I got into singleaction late.............

I,m building a 500 maximum for when I get old..............











I figure shooting it once a month with full house loads should keep senility at bay.....................

[paul105]

Looking back over the last year, my most used handguns were:

Colt Delta Elite w/Marvel .22 LR Conv
FA97 -- 5 1/2" .22LR
FA97 -- 5 1/2" .44 Special
FA97 -- 3 1/2" .45 Colt
FA97 -- 4 1/4" .45 Colt
FA747 - 6" .475 LB

Originally, the .44 Special, was shot mostly with "Elmer's Load" -- more recently with a more sedate load using Power Pistol. The .45 Colts with moderate loads of HP38 and 250gr for plinking and such -- up thru 335gr LFNGCs over H110 for 1,100 fps just for the sheer pleasure of it. Most of the .475s have been 400+- at 1,100 fps -- with 500 or so 420s at 1,300 fps.

A while back, and over the course of a couple of years I shot 8,000 plus rounds of 240-260gr bullets at 1,100 to 1,300 fps thru 3 different Smith & Wesson 329s. I got tired of sending the guns back to S&W for repairs and my shooting wrist was starting to rebel. One of those 329s is still my all day every day carry gun (260gr WFNGC w/23.0gr H110).

Paul

[paul105]

Here are some pictures of those gun:



The .44 Special on top



The FA.475, FA97 .45 Colt 4 1/4" and the S&W 329



The FA97 .22



The Delta Elite/Marvel .22LR Conversion

[cdcash]

44 Mag. Super Blackhawk and Marlin Mod. 39A. The new US Arms Abilene is threatening to unseat the Super, based on my last range session.

[nonpcnrarn]

Living in the suburbs, with a 45 min drive to the range, subsonic 22s from a rifle barrel in the back yard sounds like a pellet gun. That is 90% of my shooting. Turn on the pool equipment and plink away.