What do you consider to be a high round count in terms of firearms?

[jasonj84]

250 rounds.

 

[smokey-seven]

Paul455 said: ↑

I have a Remington Nylon 66 .22 rifle that I bought new in 1972.
Round count estimate is probably 30,000 or more. Still works fine.

I have a 1912 Remington take down that my Gdad bought from a Revere Beach shooting gallery that has so many bricks of 22 through it, that I lost count in the 50's. Bore is fine, accuracy is as good as can be expected, and it's a 4th generation rifle. 22's are self lubricating like 22 year olds.

 

[enbloc]

"Ruger", "A gun for life..."

 

[Coda]

yeah, that's cool. but something i have always done is keep a small notebook with my pistols, don't bother with the rifles. as soon as i get the box of a new pistol home, i toss a notebook in. first entry is of course date purchased, price, from where and then i start the clock. i have a touch of ocd, i like lists and making them. i also arrange books, cd's in neat lines. can't help it, it's a sickness. started to slow down on it though as i get older.

I understand the OCD thing. I am that way when it comes to my cars, boat, ATV’s, generators or anything that needs a regular service. Like you, I keep a notebook of all my maintenance records. And like you I also keep my CD’s in neat alphabetical order.

But when it come to my guns I feel I also take very good care of them, but not to the point of keeping a round count. I don’t need to keep maintenance records for my guns because every time I shoot them they get cleaned. They don’t get cleaned and inspected after a certain amount of rounds have been blasted through them, the get cleaned and inspected after every time they are shot.

 

[Remote Camper]

I have never thought about that before.

I have Canadian friends that have logs for every bullet shot through their Glocks, but they shoot competitively and that was the first time I have been exposed to counting your to rounds.

I figured that with most firearms you shoot it till is just isn’t accurate any longer.

I have my NORINCO underfolder that I have shot about 3000 rds through it, and mostly very quickly, but I have never thought it would “wear out”.


RC

 

[smokey-seven]

And like you I also keep my CD’s in neat alphabetical order.

Is that by title or group?

 

[mac1911]

Thought this would bring up some interesting discussion...

What do you personally consider to be a high round count in terms of firearms? Does it differ between .22 rimfire pistols and rifles, to shotguns, to rifles; whether defensive in use or precision/competition oriented? Does degredation in perfomance a primary decision in your consideration, or overall wear?


What sparked this idea was that I recently passed the 14K round count mark in my Canik TP9SFL and it is still running marvelously, and I will be posting a thread with pictures featuring how it's been wearing. Along the same theme, I also estimated I have at least 15-16K rounds through my CZ 612 Trap gun... been running great and slaying clays since I picked it up a few years back. I know some Competitive pistol and shotgun shooters will shoot upwards of 10K per year, easily.

For barrel wear , when accuracy falls below what ever your "like new " accuracy was.
22s and most good quality shotguns , if taken care of round count is not much of a issue for me.
there are parts that will wear out. They will show thier face regardless of round count.

 

[Coda]

Is that by title or group?

By group..........

 

[ridleyman]

Shoot it until it wears out or breaks.

Then, buy a new gun.

I refuse to wait until something breaks before buying a new gun! A couple of times I couldn't even wait for it to get dirty before taking out my wallet yet again.

 

[Knob Creek]

For barrel wear unless your are shooting a 22-250 or a 220 Swift I would not stay up nights over it. I had some knot head who I was selling a Walther to, who agreed to purchase it and then backed out when I could not document the round count.

 

[citoriguy]

This is a great conversation. I think round type and caliber are an important part of that conversation too. That notwithstanding, I guess I have at least 20K rounds through my Citori, 75% of which were my own loads. I probably have a couple/few handguns that have ~5K rounds through them with 75% factory loads, though that ratio is slowly changing. I was never a big rifle person, so I’d be surprised if any of them have over 1K rounds, likely all factory, but I have been experimenting with .30-06.

 

[whacko]

For barrel wear unless your are shooting a 22-250 or a 220 Swift I would not stay up nights over it. I had some knot head who I was selling a Walther to, who agreed to purchase it and then backed out when I could not document the round count.

Document round count? So if you gave him a notebook with dates and number of rounds through it that you made up the buyer would have been satisfied? That's nuts.

 

[SgtHal75]

Depends on what it is and what caliber it's chambered in. 10,000 rounds in a centerfire handgun of any worth is not a whole hell of a lot. On the other hand you take some weirdo rifle calibers that run at high velocities and the barrels can be pretty much toast in a few thousand rounds or less.

-Mike

Yes, AR barrells for instance. Anderson barrells are good for around 15000 rds while FN go for a double that at least.