Cartridge that you just don't like

[sparkyv]

I'm probably an outlier in this, but for me, it's 9mm

I am also not a big fan of 9mm.

I too, find that the 9mm is the least favorite caliber I own/shoot. I find it more challenging to reload than straight wall calibers, and I prefer a caliber that "starts with a four" for self defense. However, because SWMBO has access to the house guns and because SIG doesn't make a P365 in "4" caliber, I find 9mm the most practical caliber for this role.

 

[hemiram]

I'm done with '40 S&W. I don't own any guns that caliber at all, anymore. At one point in time, about 2013, I had 2 S&W 4006's, a Astra A75, and a EAA witness, and all were sold in the great income tax selloff...

 

[AZAndy]

It's too bad this couldn't have been a poll, as I'd be interested in the results, but the list of choices would have been several pages long.

I don't like, and no longer own, any 9mm, 9x18, or .380. 9mm is great for high-capacity, but high-capacity usually means the grip is too fat for me. I can do, or surpass, what 9mm does with .38 Special and .357, so I don't have a use for it. Now, if somebody gave me a Luger because I'm such a great guy and all, I'd find a way to change my mind about it, I'm sure.

9x18 is basically a hot .380, and I can outdo 9x18 or .380 with .38 Special, so I don't need to bother with it.

I do like .32ACP and .32 Long, but mostly because they're fun to come up with different loads for, and they're what I grab when I want to go shooting without beating up my hands and wrists.

 

[URIT]

The caliber I just don't like would have to be the .25acp after owning a Colt Junior half-century ago.

 

[AZAndy]

The caliber I just don't like would have to be the .25acp after owning a Colt Junior half-century ago.

A slingshot might be a better choice for self-defense, but I do like .25 because (a) J. M. Browning designed it, and (b) the Colt Vest Pocket is such an extremely cool little gun. I mean, here's a gun I can hide in my palm, and it has a grip safety?

 

[ColoroadoSupersport]

I despise the 17hmr.

Mostly due to the cost of the firearms. People pay as much for .17s as they do for big game rifles.

Prefer a a .22lr or .223 for varmints.

 

[Hookeye]

I am not a fan of very many cartridges.
Just because I may use one, doesn't mean it's the best thing ever.

.357? never liked it.
But yeah, I'll buy a new Python for deer hunting (arthritis says .44 mag days are over).

As for rifles.........I do like some better than others.
Silly maybe, but .243 win, .35 rem and 7mm rem mag.

Never been a .30-06 or .223 fan, yet have owned several.

I do not like .45-70, .45Colt or .22-250 or .30-30.
Actually dislike the looks of some cartridges physically. Rimmed and me don't get along.
The dislike of .22-250..............pops runs a #1 B in that.
I had a 700 VSF.
Like my .243's way better on chucks.

 

[Hookeye]

Loved shooting .44 magnums, 180-240 gr full out.
Hunted with em too.
No earpro back then when hunting.
Damage is not cool.

Arthritis now too.

When younger though, I put a lot of .44 lead into our club range backstops.
Was a hoot.

It works OK on deer, don't think it magical.
Takes some effort to get good shooting with one, and once you've arrived, you shoot other stuff easy.

Yup, some folks go bigger. Not me.
.44 mag was all I ever needed.
And now is too much.

It was fun while it lasted.

 

[JO JO]

for me 380 and smaller handguns , 357 mag , and the .223/5.56 I feel is WAY over rated

 

[.308 Norma]

I despise the 17hmr.

Mostly due to the cost of the firearms. People pay as much for .17s as they do for big game rifles.

Really? I must be getting old. I've had a H&R "Handy Rifle" in 17 HMR sitting by the back door since shortly after the 17 HMR was introduced. My "Handy Rifle" wears an old 4X Weaver scope, it's ugly as sin, and only mediocre in the accuracy department out past 75 yards. But it has been the demise of many a starling in the current bushes 30 yards from our rear deck, and I don't remember paying very much for it.
I guess 17 HMR ammo is kind of expensive, but c'mon, my "Handy Rifle" is a break-action single shot. How much ammo can I burn through with a rifle like that? Even though there's still a lot of starlings around here, and we still like our currant jelly and syrup, I doubt we shoot more than one box a year of 17 HMR ammo. Besides, I learned a long time ago to not even try for the starlings in the apple tree a hundred yards from our rear deck. My 17 HMR isn't worth a darn that far away if there's much of a wind -- which is almost a constant in this part of Idaho.

 

[EIB0879]

I like them all but the only rifle I have sold in the last 30 years was a 7mm Rem Mag if that means anything.

 

[ThomasT]

I am thankful we have all the choices we have to bad mouth. Think how boring it would be if all we had were 22lr, 357, 9mm and 30-06. If that were the case we would have something real to gripe about.

 

[Hookeye]

While I find some cartridges rather ho hum,
the platform can take things to affection.

 

[Hookeye]

Im not a .223 fan. Like it OK in an FNC para

.30-06? Yup boring. But useful. Drop that yawner in a Steyr Prohunter and drag it around in the rain n mud chasing Bambi.

9mm is blah. In a P35 or HK it gets kinda cool.

357 is wimpy. Like a new Python for antlerless. Had an old one. Passed on 586 8 3/8" this week. If 6" proly woulda bought it.
Rather go 686 but for a good price , would take 586

 

[Hookeye]

Am not into high end. Not into low end either. Am kinda picky, and grumpy.

Learned to not settle.
A decent cartridge in a decent rig that fits, proly wont get sold.

Making allowances in cartridge and/ or delivery system.....proly why most folks change.

IMHO one cant make up for the other. Gotta have both

 

[lightman]

The 7mm Remington Magnum. Nothing wrong with the cartridge, I guess. Just the people that I know that have them and can't shoot them because of the recoil. And the number of deer that they wound. I know, I know, it could be about any cartridge but the 7mm is it in my world.

 

[94045]

I'm probably an outlier in this, but for me, it's 9mm. My dislike for it admittedly has nothing to do with performance, but rather stems from when I was an assembler at Dan Wesson. All of the other calibers we built went together no problem. The 9mms were finicky. Failures to feed, extraction problems, recoil springs that were either too strong or not strong enough. You name the issue, we probably saw it. We made sure they functioned flawlessly before they went out the door, but getting them there took more work than anything else we built. To this day, I refuse to own one.

What cartridge(s) can't you guys bring yourself to like?

My guess is the 9x19mm issue was misapplication. It's not really a good caliber for a 1911 but the demand for it almost requires you produce it. I'm not saying it can't be made to work just like a 3" 1911 but the margin between function and failure is narrower.

The calibers I don't.like are .454 Casull and pretty much any .300.- .378 Wby. I guess I just don't get along with high intensity cartridges. I'll take a .480 Ruger or .404 Jeffery any day of the week.

 

[Daveboone]

I can put a lot of cartridges into the context of what they were originally designed for, and respect it but not like them.
The .357 is probably now past its prime, but it was originally designed as a high power law enforcement round and did (and I guess still would) do its job well.It is bred and born for a revolver. It was my first hand gun, and I have owned a number of them, but in practical field use and concealed carry, it has been replaced by more practical arms.
9mm I learned to appreciate and enjoy shooting now, at one time (back in revolver still prime days) despised it...but wise old Browning designed it and the .45 strictly and purposely for a military handgun round.
I cant stand the .270. I see no real reason for it, but I understand its wildcat origin. It, the '06 and .308 all share ballistics so close to each other for the majority of their range in similar bullets, it is a toss up. The '06 of course has the advandage of carrying the heaviest bullet, and the .308 is a more modern version in a short case. My dislike I think centers around folks who buy the .270 for a woodland round, but its trajectory advantage usually is null in typical short woodland ranges.
I was talked into a .300 Win Mag as being essential for a bear gun, prior to going on my first bear hunt (black bear). I ended up at last light last day shooting a young boar, and almost blew it in half, and it still ran 60 yards. I had never been so horrified in my life. I got rid of that fast than a fart in the wind.It was replaced with a single shot .45-70 that anchored them in their tracks each time, with minimal trauma.

 

[Archie]

There are cartridges I'd rather not use.

I avoid any cartridge with a 'belt'. The belt serves no real purpose and I find it a fad. I do actually have a .458 Winchester, but I got in a three way trade, so...

.380 ACP is one of those rounds that strike me as neither fish nor fowl. I can't see any reason for it other than self-defense and in my mind it is very lacking for that. .243 Winchester is another betwixt and between cartridge. But I am aware many folks like it. .22WRM is just flat useless to me. I prefer .22 Hornet. On the other hand, I collect Art Deco period .32 ACP (7.65mm Browning) pistols; also a few .25 ACP (6.35mm) pistols and I have three 9x19mm pistols. All of those pistols are for my collection of historical guns or something along the line. They are interesting, I do not carry them as serious defensive arms.

.308 Winchester is so - mainstream. It is boring. But it suitably does nearly everything 'riflily' (spell check tells me I've invented a new word) so I have one.

Another category to which I object are those cartridges made to be shot from AR platforms so some overfunded, overgrown juvenile can blast a lot at one sitting.

6.5x55mm still works better than most cartridges in the 'middle' cartridge bunch. I expect 6.5x54 Mannlicher Schonauer will do as well. One's coming to me.

 

[Hookeye]

I don't dislike a cartridge due to not having personal use.
My dislike usually from one or combo of three things:

1. The actual look of the cartridge
2. The historical aspects of it (I don't care about it, so hyping it is a turn off).
3. Popularity...........I hate fanboys.

Not trying to be too different.
Not trying to be one of the cool kids either.

 

[Texas10mm]

9mm I learned to appreciate and enjoy shooting now, at one time (back in revolver still prime days) despised it...but wise old Browning designed it and the .45 strictly and purposely for a military handgun round.

Umm...I think you are confused. Browning designed a lot of things but not the 9mm.

 

[jmorris]

.17 HMR, it’s expensive and rimfire so it can’t be reloaded with my normal centerfire process.

Then the 17 HM2 made me wonder if both would go the way of the Dodo so I waited 18 years now to get one. You can’t have one of everything without one...

 

[Pat Riot]

After reading most of these comments and thinking about it a bit, I have to admit that I really don’t know of any cartridges that I “just don’t like”.

There are a lot of cartridges I have no interest in.
There are cartridges that I have fired that I never care to fire again.
There are cartridges that I have absolutely zero use for in any regard.
But I cannot think of any that I just do not like.

 

[Trey Veston]

I too, find that the 9mm is the least favorite caliber I own/shoot. I find it more challenging to reload than straight wall calibers, and I prefer a caliber that "starts with a four" for self defense. However, because SWMBO has access to the house guns and because SIG doesn't make a P365 in "4" caliber, I find 9mm the most practical caliber for this role.

I really don't like 9mm either, for pretty much the same reasons you stated. But like you, I also found the allure of the P365 just too much to resist. And like my G19, I will probably waste hours and dollars trying out a bunch of loads and bullets for it to discover that cheap plinking ammo will only be marginally less accurate in it.

I love .40 S&W and .40 Long S&W because I can load it as hot or as mild as I want and it is much easier to handle during the process.

I'll also add .223 to the list. I bought an AR over twenty years ago with the excuse that I would use it as a varmint rifle. Took it hunting a couple of times and just wasn't impressed, so turned the rifle into a tacticool zombie gun. Pretty much just a range toy. I bought another AR-15 in .223 just before the 2016 election "just in case" and have shot it a couple of times.

I then bought an AR-15 lower and built a .450 Bushmaster rifle as a camp carbine and it makes me smile every time I shoot it.

 

[Bfh_auto]

I will have to agree with these guys.
...that being said, I reload for it and cast for it. I have more .357s than any other centerfire caliber. My latest purchase was a .357.

Not too smot I guess.

Kind of in the same boat.
My reason for them is you get just enough power without the huge frame of a 44 mag.