CZ, where you're shooting must be in high cotton. At my club, members shoot skeet for $6, 5-stand for $6, and wobble trap (scrap) for $6. A 100 bird round of sporting is $25 for a member, and only $35 for non-members. This is a 15 station course with all ProMatic machines and has the ability to count your targets and transfer them to a chip card. Also has a 3 second delay for report pairs and singles, if you want to practice alone. In short, a very well equipped shooting facility. They sell 12 ga. target loads for $65/flat. At the government's travel expense rate of $.54/mile, it costs me as much to drive there and back as it does to shoot a 100 bird round, shells included.
$90 per 100? Mercy!
As to the wear on a gun, I have shot 10K rounds a year, more than once, by actual shell and target count. I've never worn out a double. Closest I have come is a used BSS I bought about 12 years ago. Tight when I bought it, but shot loose about a year ago. A .003" piece of aluminum HVAC tape keeps it tight now. It's digested a good many 3" magnum loads, and lots of lighter ones.
I agree that you can't separate the wear from opening/closing from shooting entirely, but it is my opinion that the opening/closing cycles cause more wear than the firing of light loads, say 1 oz. or less in a 12 ga. There is very little metal to metal movement during recoil ............ but lots in opening/closing.
SRH
Last edited by Stan; 03/25/18 01:47 PM.
