Whats the cartridge you LOVE to HATE?

[dstark]

ouch! some of these posts are hurting my tender feelings!

 

[ARlife4me]

One of my aliases is Buford T.

He's the Buford T part and now it's just us

 

[joep17]

Fred is good with thar!

 

[Raingull]

Cartridges designed for suppressors will never appeal to me. I do not understand using a suppressor with supersonic ammunition and I don't understand using a rifle with handgun ballistics. In my mind suppressors are for pistols and don't make sense elsewhere.

 

[boatmanusa]

7 REM Mag and the 6.5 Creed! Of course, I'm not a fan of anything under 30 caliber…..except for shooting smallish varmints! memtb

I agree and so glad you brought this to the forum....especially the 6.5 Creedmore....There have been 1000s of these guns sold to want a be elk hunters that come to Idaho, Montana and Wyoimg to hunt elk and because a few Youtube Videos that show a elk being killed over 500 yards and the salesman at the gun stores tell them it is... they think they have an ELK gun...and the reason they so popular is there like shooting a pop gun as far as recoil...for every action there is a reaction....so the bigger the bullet and charge the more the reaction...RECOIL....if you cant handle the recoil needed to hunt elk...go shoot some rabbits, squirrels, maybe frogs...For years the 7mm Mag did nt have very good bullet options and many animals were shot only to have the bullet go though without expanding (pass thoughs)(old Speer bullets) but now with lets say the Hornaday 175 grain ELDx I think the 7mm might be a good caliber for elk...not great but good...Im 70 and still shoot my 300 Ultra Mag and with a muzzle break... it just doesnt kick that much...heck I have videos of my 10 year old grandson shooting that gun...and he shot it well...

 

[DUCKMAN11]

Good 6mm AR / 6mm Grendel / .243 LBC loads

The google custom search turned up nothing for "good loads" for either 6mm AR, .243 LBC, or 6mm Grendel so I figured we may as well get one rolling. I have NO loading suggestions to offer as of yet since I am waiting for my two 20-inch barrels and likely will be still wai...

www.24hourcampfire.com

Yeah I was on the fence about 6 years ago when I started going down the Grendel path. I didn't want to be forced to reload only for a wildcat AR cartridge. So I went 6.5 Grendel due to cheap factory options then and headstamped brass. Knowing what I know now I should have just bought a Dillon 750 press and cranked out a decent 6mm version of the Grendel. The 6.5 Grendel aint horrible its just very very boring.

 

[memtb]

You are right, the 338 recoil can be a bit snappy. The term "recoil impulse" is a great description. Is there a formula to quantify it?

I think that there are a few different sites/links that can give you recoil data, this is the one I use! I can't prove it's accuracy…..but am reasonably comfortable with it! memtb

ShootersCalculator.com

Online ballistic calculators to help shooters calculate bullet trajectory, bullet kinetic energy, maximum point blank range, and recoil. Explains how to make these calculations and produces charts and graphs that compare various firearm cartridges and firearms.

shooterscalculator.com

 

[RWeeks7mm]

7 REM Mag and the 6.5 Creed! Of course, I'm not a fan of anything under 30 caliber…..except for shooting smallish varmints! memtb

Ooh, that 7mm RM comment cuts deep! : )

 

[IHFarmer07]

Hahaha
0ld eyes typing on a tiny iPhone. This phone has that auto erection feature that changes every other word.

Lol too much information here on the public net!!! Did you have to pay extra when you got the phone or do you have to pay for the auto erection feature evertime it happens? Some would call that porn!

Hahaha I had to disable that feature on mine……it always came up with words that I didn't want to use. Hate it and I'm not that old, just don't have the time to have to correct the autocorrect!

 

[bultinkle]

Cartridges designed for suppressors will never appeal to me. I do not understand using a suppressor with supersonic ammunition and I don't understand using a rifle with handgun ballistics. In my mind suppressors are for pistols and don't make sense elsewhere.

Owning both I find pistol suppressors so much less useful it's just incredible. I hardly ever use mine.

The difference in concussion and user experience from 165db vs 140 is enormous. Pistol suppressors don't fit in Holsters, make balance horrible and just general suck IME.

Plus side we all get to like what we like

 

[Rick79]

I do have a love/hate relationship with the .270. Mine is a mid 1970's 700 that was my dad's. It still shoots amazingly but kicks like a mule. I also don't want to do anything to it since it is one of the few I own with sentimental value.

As for the 308 (7.62 NATO), the only way I love it is if it's in an M-14 or belt fed.

 

[jake545]

Oh dear…

That auto erection feature could be very popular in some demographics

 

[trout004]

An old wise man once said that he hates the 9mm because it sucks the lungs out of the body.

 

[idcwby]

You didn't mention another of my favorites, the Remington 30 AR. A pretty decent deer cartridge in the AR format. It could have pushed the Modern Sporting Rifle into fast forward. Supposedly, Big Green published the wrong ballistic data at its inception and the cartridge went nowhere... I saw several boxes last week at a gun show and felt pain of lost chances. But I am not running a museum for Remington's failures.

That would be a big museum.