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Cartridges we can do without thread
mrmike08075
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What 3 cartridges can you do without...
What 3 cartridges would you retire from the active list...
What 3 cartridges are overhyped - redundant - and useless....
Please limit your self to 3 cartridges per reply - reply as often as needed to satisfy your hate or indifference to your select chamberings...
.32 short colt
.33 winchester
.270 winchester
Mike
What 3 cartridges would you retire from the active list...
What 3 cartridges are overhyped - redundant - and useless....
Please limit your self to 3 cartridges per reply - reply as often as needed to satisfy your hate or indifference to your select chamberings...
.32 short colt
.33 winchester
.270 winchester
Mike
Comments
I think I need them all! [;)]
.32acp
.380acp
I find something interesting about almost all of them.
I think I need them all! [;)]
+1
Clearly I can do without .22LR since I have been able to purchase a grand total of 150 rounds in the past 8 years.
[;)][;)]
What 3 cartridges can you do without...
What 3 cartridges would you retire from the active list...
What 3 cartridges are overhyped - redundant - and useless....
Please limit your self to 3 cartridges per reply - reply as often as needed to satisfy your hate or indifference to your select chamberings...
.32 short colt
.33 winchester
.270 winchester
Mike
I don't know if we can be friends any more, Mike![:(]
http://forums.GunBroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=680943
Anything .17 caliber
.204 Ruger
.458 Hubel
quote:Originally posted by mrmike08075
What 3 cartridges can you do without...
What 3 cartridges would you retire from the active list...
What 3 cartridges are overhyped - redundant - and useless....
Please limit your self to 3 cartridges per reply - reply as often as needed to satisfy your hate or indifference to your select chamberings...
.32 short colt
.33 winchester
.270 winchester
Mike
I don't know if we can be friends any more, Mike![:(]
http://forums.GunBroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=680943
Anything .17 caliber
.204 Ruger
.458 Hubel
Anything .17 caliber
We are going to have to talk...[:(]
The .17 HMR I bought for my son is funner-n-hell for shooting taters.
With what it does in the wind, I would never hunt with it, but it grenades a tater like nobody's business. [:)]
any of the short Magnums or SS Magnums
Agree +1000!!!
.25 ACP (inferior to .22LR in my opinion)
16 Gauge (fills a gap where there is no gap)
.45 gap
.303 savage
What self respecting shooter keeps the .270 winchester when the .30-06 does it better and than some - why limit yourself...
Any .14 calibers...
Mike
.32 S&W AKA .32 short (a slingshot has better penetration)
.25 ACP (inferior to .22LR in my opinion)
16 Gauge (fills a gap where there is no gap)
Actually Jim, John Browning saw the .25 differently. It being a centerfire with a FMJ projectile, it was more reliable in semiautomatic guns than a .22 with a soft lead projectile.
Keep all the cartridges. Every single one of them has at least one person following it.
My thoughts on the 300 RUM why would you not use a 30-378?
280 REM just so you can fill the gap between 270 WCF and 30-06?
[:D][}:)][:p][:D][}:)][:p]
Merc
quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
Clearly I can do without .22LR since I have been able to purchase a grand total of 150 rounds in the past 8 years.
(2) .243WSSM
(3) Agreed with all the .17's
380
45 long colt
any of the short Magnums or SS Magnums
+1
I never really saw the sense in them when they first came out, although some irrelevant gun writers wanting to boost sales sure did.
So what if the action was a wee bit shorter.
For each and every one, there was an established cartridge in existence already, plus the exorbitant cost of the proprietary ammo hastened their death.
The mere fact, the shorty's are practically extinct proves these points.
.40 s&w
.45 gap
.303 savage
What self respecting shooter keeps the .270 winchester when the .30-06 does it better and than some - why limit yourself...
Any .14 calibers...
Mike
OK, now I'm starting to think you're intentionally trying to push my buttons![;)]
any of the short Magnums or SS Magnums
Yep, plus
223
plus any of the low speed rounds developed in the last 20 years.
.32 S&W AKA .32 short (a slingshot has better penetration)
.25 ACP (inferior to .22LR in my opinion)
16 Gauge (fills a gap where there is no gap)
16 Ga...Carries like a 20,hits like a 12.Besides it is the 1st shotgun I purchased after getting out of the Navy, a mod 12 with solid rib.Bought it used in 1963 at a firestone tire store for $94.00, still have it.
I'm fairly conventional. But, I like almost all calibers and gauges!
.25acp
.32acp
.380acp
Not a chance, blastphamy. I say.
32 GAUGE ,,AND WHY DO without any calibers?
Actually Jim, John Browning saw the .25 differently. It being a centerfire with a FMJ projectile, it was more reliable in semiautomatic guns than a .22 with a soft lead projectile.
Keep all the cartridges. Every single one of them has at least one person following it.
Everybody is entitled to one mistake. That would include John Browning. [:D]
These are cartridges I can do without. Those who like them should use and enjoy them. Like John Browning, they are entitled to one mistake too. [;)] [:)]
Do we need both - can't we lose one or the other...
It's just confusing and unnecessary.
28 gauge shotshell
.41 magnum
Mike
So we have the .223 and the 5.56...
Do we need both - can't we lose one or the other...
It's just confusing and unnecessary.
28 gauge shotshell
.41 magnum
Mike
AAArrrrgghhh! You're killin' me![:D]
I went to Arkansas and was invited to go hog hunting. A relative loaned me the 30-30 I had sold him, but had no ammo. I picked up a box of 30-30's at a gas station.
45 GAP
5.56 Nato
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
.327 magnum
Keep .270 but get rid of the rather pointless .280
.35 S&W auto...
Or we could just make one long list of cartridges that have a number in the name that doesn't resemble the diameter of the round at all.
Perusing this list, there are about 3 dozen or so that could disappear forever and never be missed by anyone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_handgun_cartridges
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Anything that ends in "Savage"
Anything that ends in "Marlin"
Anything that ends in "Remington"
That's 3, right?
.256 newton
Anything sharp shouldered or Ackley improved...
.25-06
Mike
.35 Whelen
.256 newton
Anything sharp shouldered or Ackley improved...
.25-06
Mike
35 Whelen? No way.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
So we have the .223 and the 5.56...
Do we need both - can't we lose one or the other...
Mike
Get rid of them both. The 22-250 will do anything those can 10X better.
quote:Originally posted by mrmike08075
So we have the .223 and the 5.56...
Do we need both - can't we lose one or the other...
Mike
Get rid of them both. The 22-250 will do anything those can 10X better.
Amen.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain