Shooting Range Time Logs

[Pygmalion]

Having been a first-time firearm owner for about a year now (Spring 2013), and as I put more and more rounds through my Glock 19, I fee like I should keep a log of my range time for various reasons. One of which is knowing about how many rounds you've put through your weapon, which I think would help determine maintenance benchmarks (much like a mileage on a car). Secondly, as many of you more seasoned gun owners probably know, it might be good to keep track of this sort of thing as you shoot/acquire more than a few different firearms.

For those of you who keep a range log, things I'd like to hear from y'all are:

• what kind of notebook/journal/software you use
• what kind of information you put in it and how you arrange it (ex: having a column to write malfunction type (FTF, FTE), etc.)
• pictures/screenshots!

Link Removed and Link Removed are some interesting military-style logbooks I found on Amazon that might be nice for this.

Thanks for sharing your process!

 

[golddigger14s]

I don't keep a log personally, but if I did I would just make one for free with excel.

 

[Gunmetal]

Agreed, you should be able to do whatever you need with Excel or any other spreadsheet app.

I used to do this diligently; I'd write the details (all that you mentioned, plus with which hand(s) I was shooting, ammo type, mag #, and I think some other fields as well) in a paper notebook at the range and then transfer the data to my spreadsheet.

Nowadays I don't bother with all this, it really was overkill, but I think there's a happy medium someplace where you can still get the benefits (advance knowledge of service milestones) without killing yourself over the data maintenance (which, I have to add, robbed some of the fun from shooting).

I haven't figured out yet where that happy space is, but if I were to start over again today, I'd probably just keep note of roughly how many rounds I shot today (rounded to nearest 50) and call it good.