I feel really lucky that I have a shooting range membership. It could be considered a little pricey at $150/year but it makes me want to get out there and get my money’s worth. Before I got the membership as a gift, it was pretty hit and miss getting any sort of trigger time – in some cases years in between time.

As a natural planner one thing I like to do is set some annual goals. One of those came from an idea that I first heard of from Bob Mayne https://www.handgunworld.com/about/ called the ‘1,000 round trigger job’. The idea is that you need to spend some quality time with your firearm to get familiar with its intricacies.

This trigger has gotten the test

So what does that really mean? In my interpretation it means testing the durability of your firearm, how it functions with many brands and types of ammunition, what is best for accuracy, how your clothing and the season hinder motion and felt recoil, practice reloading and off hand use and so on.

My tastes can be eclectic and it can be expensive to perform the ‘1000 round trigger job’ so for that reason, it usually plan to shoot 100 rounds per range visit per firearm. I also try to get to the range once a month. So, it can take nearly a year to to do accomplish this if you do it with intention on a new firearm. If it was a used firearm, I would tend to treat the round counter as zero because I haven’t learned the intricacies of the particular weapon yet. Yes, I do keep track (roughly) of the total round count for each firearm.

One side benefiit is that I reload, so saving all of my brass gets me a great stockpile of material to reload and cuts down on future costs. What I have learned over the years is that 1) it is fun 2) it motivates me to keep my shooting skills fresh 3) I am not a great handgun shot 4) devising tests is part of the fun. If you like to shoot, try the ‘1000 round trigger job’.