This for me is a extremely sad story. My shooting partner (Tim) and I jointly own a trailer and shooting cart (modified golf cart) and travel for shooting venues in Arizona, Nevada and Utah. In 2019 we shoot three days a week, Tuesdays Wobble Trap, usually Thursday was skeet but sometimes Sporting Clays and Saturdays was Sporting Clays. He bought Fiocchi Shotgun shells by the pallet and I reloaded. In 2019 we both shot over 9,000 shells, 2020 down to barely 3,500 and 2021 less than 2,500.
The shooting clubs in Maricopa County (Phoenix) along with any club across the Arizona which accepted state Fish and Game Funds enforced strict guidelines for shooting. The Rules and Regulations took all the fun and camaraderie out of going to any of our facilities.
I've since moved to Texas however Tim and I have multiple shooting trips on the book in 2022. We'll meet at a location shoot 2-3-4 days at several venues and games and get together 4-8 weeks later at another location. In October Tim and I had a 3 days of shooting here in the Fort Worth area at Fossil Pointe and Fort Worth Trap and Skeet and each shot over 600 rounds.
Tim still has over two pallets of shells and I have plenty of primers, powder and wads but under 200 pounds of lead. Yes I'm a hoarder!!!!
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