Least favourite cartridge?
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There is but one cartridge that I have no use for, well maybe one caliber, and that would be anything in a .277 groove dia. What in Gods name possessed anyone to create such an abortion is beyond me when the 264 and 284 already existed. Trust the Americans to do something like this though, cause the other 2 have metric names and "we couldn't have that, how would we ever figure out what size they really was". Nowhere else on the planet is there another cartridge using a .277 bullet, except the 3 abortions "Made in America". Roy Weatherby even hated it and said it was his least favorite of his calibers but being a contemporary of O'Connor and seeing the influence he was peddling, he felt it necessary for smart marketing. I never liked O'Connor either !!!
Even the Brits, with their way of really screwing up calibers, never happened upon a .277. It's even dumber than a 23 caliber in my estimation...........
Really you have to ask yourself, if you woke up tomorrow and the 277 didn't exist and never had, would you notice? Would the hunting scene really be changed? Would there be a whole class of animals that couldn't have been taken because the .277 bore didn't exist? REALLY.............
Let's make believe....due to some unfathomable something, you are stuck with a .270 Win and 150 Partitions @ 2850 - 2900 fps, or a 130gr TTSX @ 3150fps for the rest of your hunting career. I highly doubt you'd starve.
Johnn Peterson
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Let's make believe....due to some unfathomable something, you are stuck with a .270 Win and 150 Partitions @ 2850 - 2900 fps, or a 130gr TTSX @ 3150fps for the rest of your hunting career. I highly doubt you'd starve.
Now you've done it!! If Douglas starts hounding me for one of my .270 Win.'s,
I'll blame you. 
Ben from SK
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30-06 is kind of like an 'old faithful' round to me. There are 'better' out there, but for being 100+ years old it holds its own pretty well.
what I don't like is people that brag up magnums superiority over the standard cal's and have never shot anything beyond 200 yards in their whole life.
patricksbb391
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.204 Ruger?; 8mm Remington Mag; all RSAUM; and WSSM's.
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Let's talk with facts, cheap talk is cheap talk. Throw any pix of anything shot with 303 carbine or SKS up here and that clears up all the junk talk. Now here are two pix of a "little dink" buck shot by SKS with one bang two weeks ago, at least 230 lbs. If you want pix of bears dropped by SKS, I can show you too.
Why don't you gut it in the field? Just curious
I don't have a great deal of time for 22 WMR. I reckon it's neither fish nor fowl and 22 Hornet is a better bet, not to mention 222 Rem, 204 Ruger and 223 Rem. It also tends to kill bbls the way 22LR doesn't. But it works for a lot of people.
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- Steel Town and The Peg
Any calibre that prematurely burns out barrels.
Johnn Peterson
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- Chemainus B.C.
That's one of the best answers posted.
those plus 30 TC
There is but one cartridge that I have no use for, well maybe one caliber, and that would be anything in a .277 groove dia. What in Gods name possessed anyone to create such an abortion is beyond me when the 264 and 284 already existed. Trust the Americans to do something like this though, cause the other 2 have metric names and "we couldn't have that, how would we ever figure out what size they really was". Nowhere else on the planet is there another cartridge using a .277 bullet, except the 3 abortions "Made in America". Roy Weatherby even hated it and said it was his least favorite of his calibers but being a contemporary of O'Connor and seeing the influence he was peddling, he felt it necessary for smart marketing. I never liked O'Connor either !!!
Even the Brits, with their way of really screwing up calibers, never happened upon a .277. It's even dumber than a 23 caliber in my estimation...........
Really you have to ask yourself, if you woke up tomorrow and the 277 didn't exist and never had, would you notice? Would the hunting scene really be changed? Would there be a whole class of animals that couldn't have been taken because the .277 bore didn't exist? REALLY.............
There was actually an experimental 6.8mm ( .277" ) cartridge developed for the Chinese sometime around 1907, though I doubt the Americans were aware of it's existance.
If it had survived I guess it would be known as a .270x57?
The brits had a penchant for naming their cartridges after the bore diameter, so the .275 P-13 cartridge is a proper 7mm, just like the .275 Rigby and .275 H&H magnum.
All magnum rounds( excluding .338 alpha magnum) specifically any and all attempts to one up regular magnum rounds. Ultra mag, ultra super mag, super short mag, super douper amazing magnum and any combination of those word.
I don't doubt their uses its just why use a .300win mag or whatever to shoot deer at 100-200m. They are capable of 500-600m kills if your skilled and at 100-300m it can be done easily with .308 for half the price of ammo.
I don't doubt their uses its just why use a .300win mag or whatever to shoot deer at 100-200m. They are capable of 500-600m kills if your skilled and at 100-300m it can be done easily with .308 for half the price of ammo.
