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jbird, I had a similar experience at last year's CHL instructors' school. I went to a range in Leander with some classmates the night before the test to shoot and tutor a couple guys who were worries they couldn't shoot 90%.

Before pulling my own "toys" out of my bag, I was explaining constant contact trigger control and the "process" of making a good shot to one guy when he me to demonstrate what I was talking about with his gun. It was a SigPro 2340 and I'd never shot one before that day. I fired ten rounds at seven yards while regurgitating the basics of marksmanship to my classmates.

When I was done, I had four pairs of eyes bulging and four jaws on the floor. Thinking I'd some how embarassed myself with a cluster of misses and lossed all credibility, I looked downrange. But there it was in all it's shining glory; a single, slightly ragged, dime-sized hole in the target. Needless to say, I declined requests to replicate that feat with the other guys guns, or my own for that matter. No way was I going to prove just how big a fluke that was.

Agreed, high round count without a specific purpose is a waste.

IDPA or USPSA matches are a good way to get in trigger time. If you have a club with advanced shooters, you can learn a lot.

Structured training courses or matches are about the only times I burn more than about 200 rounds in a single session.

Refresher courses with Brian Hoffner usually burn 1000 rounds in a single day when I attend. So my records for 5.56NATO, 7.62NATO, 12gauge, 9mm, and .45acp each stand at 1000 rounds in a single trip. That's usually an all day burn with a 9AM start and finishing with 200-300 rounds fired at night but sometimes it we get cut short and get it all done in six hours.