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My life is so crazy that I hardly ever get to the range. When I do, I try to make up for lost time.

I belong to a private gun club. It's a self-policed range, with no supplies or range officers except during matches. Usually when I go on a weekday morning, I have the place to myself (5 pistol bays with a variety of steel swingers and USPSA silhouettes left from the last match), plus a 200 yard rifle range with target holders.

So in other words... I have to take everything except target stands.

First, I have to pick what I'm taking:

Carry pistols (always!); that means three handguns and ammo, unless I take .22 plinkers, then it's more.

Rifles: "I didn't take that one last time"; "I took that one last time, but didn't have time to shoot it"; "I haven't even been to the range since I bought that one (or two, or three!)"; "Man, that's a lot of centerfire that I don't feel like cleaning, so maybe I'll take these two or three rimfires".

With ammo, guns, and range bags (yes, bags!), a trip to the range usually involves at least four trips to the driveway. Then 1-3 hours shooting, and four trips from the driveway to the house. Then 1-4 hours cleaning, depending on what I took. (I own a lot of milsurp, and almost always clean for corrosive unless I know absolutely, positively, otherwise.)

I really have to get on a schedule of going regularly, and focusing on one or two guns per trip.

Kevin