I was going to be ordering some pellets and started to wonder what others use in a typical week/month/year. I'll be plinking and shooting the odd crow and magpie and figure I might go through 5k this summer if I'm lucky and have the time.
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How many pellets do you go through?
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That may be stretching it a little for me but not much. I order mine from PA during their black friday sales. JMO but if you don't need them immediately you may want to wait a few weeks. As the stimulus funds are dispersed it may be possible the sellers will have sales to get their share of it.
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I don’t know. But... I can tell you that when I started Airgunning, I was going through a lot. I bought many different kinds too. Any time I get a new gun, consumption goes up. After a while, things settle down and I use less. But, I’m just a backyard warrior.
If you ask the competition folk, they probably have a membership going. Auto delivered every two weeks
If you ask the competition folk, they probably have a membership going. Auto delivered every two weeks
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.30 get expensive... I used to only go through less than 150 or so during a visit, I guess because the targets were easier. But as I have been venturing out to 100yds, I have been going up to 300 at a time, as I try to figure it out. I made myself stop at 150 the other day. I would like to get something I can shoot a little cheaper, but I do love my .30. I am starting to run out of pellets. I think I have 4 tins left. I bought 16 tins when they were 20% last, but I wasn’t shooting as much over winter. I am going to need many more now.
I had plans of getting something else before this virus to be able to shoot more, but I may just have to pour more into pellets. Not sure I would be as happy now that I have found this long distance shooting.
I had plans of getting something else before this virus to be able to shoot more, but I may just have to pour more into pellets. Not sure I would be as happy now that I have found this long distance shooting.
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I’m retired and shoot every day I’m gonna say 2500 pellets every 6 weeks .I also do my share of pest control.
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I'm curious if anyone is like me. I really don't count how much I shoot. Sometimes I shoot a lot in a week, sometimes I'm busy and a week goes by without a chance to shoot. I kinda just order more when I see them getting low.
Unfortunately I have about 10,000 pellets of all varieties bought for testing that will probably never get used up.
Unfortunately I have about 10,000 pellets of all varieties bought for testing that will probably never get used up.
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On average..about 10-20 pellets a day sometimes less sometimes more. When tuning ALOT more!
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That's from a couple months, at least the ones retrieved when I emptied my traps a few weeks ago.
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Nation,
Between my stash of different projectiles (75- 100,000), and the pellets (slugs) I create, I probably go through 20-30,000 a season. Give or take...
Tom Holland
Field Target Tech
Between my stash of different projectiles (75- 100,000), and the pellets (slugs) I create, I probably go through 20-30,000 a season. Give or take...
Tom Holland
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Maybe 10,000 a year. Typically 100+ per practice session. It could be more but I am at the point of practicing the basics making every shot count instead of volume shooting.
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I am so fortunate to have a very nice indoor 18 yard range and outdoor range at my home. The indoor range has two RX target sets, the outdoor range about 20 spinners. Additionally I have an indoor 150 yard range available to me on weekends and evenings. It is a rare day for me not to shoot 50 pellets or more from a few of my ten springer and pcp collection. Given all of that, I probably go through 20,000 plus pellets annually.
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I'm estimating I go through 6-7,000 pellets a year maybe. A little over a tin a month. Sometimes I go through a tin a week. It really depends on life. Right now I'm very busy at work working a lot of OT and life going on at home so my shooting times have gone down to maybe 20 shots a day on average. Once the weather warms up and dries out, I should be burning through the pellets again. I should get a pellet order in soon though, I'm down to maybe 5 tins each of my main pellets (JSB 8.4 and JSB 18.1). Just had a new air rifle delivered so I'll probably be burning a few in that one to get it dialed in and familiar with it. I just opened a new tin (18.1) for that one yeasterday.
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20 tins each,three times a year
22-30cal the rest are big bore 457
My spent rounds are cast for the 457,real nice food chain working
22-30cal the rest are big bore 457
My spent rounds are cast for the 457,real nice food chain working
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A lot. I usually try to use the less expensive stuff for casual shooting and save the good stuff until I need it.
These are just the empties laying around the shop, I really need to do something with them I just hate throwing away perfectly good containers.
These are just the empties laying around the shop, I really need to do something with them I just hate throwing away perfectly good containers.
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I'd guess somewhere around the 5K pellets/year
- About 1 tin a month, a little less in the summer with the powder burner/motorcycle/rowing boat/hiking...
- About 1 tin a month, a little less in the summer with the powder burner/motorcycle/rowing boat/hiking...
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I usually go through about five tins every 3 months of the crosman domed .22 in my Benjamin summit alone I go through a lot especially now that I have a good trap I made it yesterday and went through approximately 120 pellets that afternoon, I have had days using my 2240 that I doubled that number, also I use a lot of bb's as well I won't think anything of firing 400 bb's in a day.
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