When I was a teen, we shot .22s for fun, and we could buy steel case war surplus .45 ACP ammo for about one cent per
shot, this was in the mid-to-late 60s. Shot up a what we thought was a lot of .45 ACP ammo, but in retrospect, perhaps
we shot 500 or 1000 rounds in three years.
Later, after college, when I had some money and was seriously working on my IPSC skllls, a friend and I would rent the
local indoor range's downstairs every Wed and shoot about 300 rds each, and then do it again at a private range on
Saturday. So, that was 600 rds a week, or 2400 rds a month just practice. Matches were every Friday night, two courses
of fire, about 25-30 shots each, so figure 50-60 rds there, plus the one "big" monthly match, and about once a month
an out of town match.
My Ruger Standard Auto .22 6" taught me to shoot pistols. Used to buy two or three boxes of ammo at a time (very
little money available then) for about a penny a shot. Milsurp 7x57 ammo was $6.00/100 rds so a lot more than
.22 ammo, but still affordable in moderate quantities. A Lyman 310 loaded all the sot point rifle ammo I could afford for
years.
Different times, mostly less money available.
Bill