just as a qualifier.
I shoot and have shot thousands of shot shells a year since I was 8-9 years old.
I'm maybe down to an average of 5-6 thousand a year now [with some years up to around 10-K or so]
but for several years it was very close to, or even over, 30-K a year.
I didn't even have a bolt type rifle for probably 15 years. [other than a varmint rig I never put a scope on until I started shooting cast bullets in it]
what I pretty much had was 1-2 lever guns, and a couple of handguns that seemed to cycle in and out from time to time.
if I wanted to go deer/Elk hunting I just borrowed one of dad's milsurps, or took one of the lever rifles.