Least useful modern caliber?
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Leafy Cronmer
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Really the 700 Nitro Express is so far beyond overkill, it really makes no sense.
Erik M
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i think this should have been a poll. .25 would have won by a landslide me thinks.
Yeah... which is why it has sold steadily for 105 years.
You've never seen marketing and a low price point (for many such pistols) triumph over sense before?
Ed Ames
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For over 100 years? Most of that with no "name" behind it and nobody marketing it? No.
I have observed people who didn't recognize "sense" because it didn't appeal to their sensibilities though. Many times in fact.
I have observed people who didn't recognize "sense" because it didn't appeal to their sensibilities though. Many times in fact.
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mesinge2
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I was thinking about making this a poll, but to list so many calibers that others might consider "less useful" in this poll would have been impossible...
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bowtecbowhunter
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I don't know where you're at, but it's pretty plentyful here and besides it's a really good caliber in my opinion.This was supposed to say .380 but the quote didn't go thru.
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Officers'Wife
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Until you have seen a very large and very angry critter with rage in it's eye, mayhem in it's heart and fangs bared in a rude, insolent and angry manner coming at you at a high rate of speed, you cannot accurately judge the concept of overkill. Dad always claimed my Uncle's 444 magnum rifle was overkill until they met up with an overprotective feral sow along a certain river bottom.
I have never shot or even handled one, but to me the .45 GAC is about the dumbest idea I've ever heard of.
If Glock wanted something new, they should have mated up a single stack 1911 magazine to their line of pistols. Cheap magazines that are available anywhere in a pretty well proven gun - that would have sold.
If Glock wanted something new, they should have mated up a single stack 1911 magazine to their line of pistols. Cheap magazines that are available anywhere in a pretty well proven gun - that would have sold.
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mesinge2
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That's a good idea. Not only would mags be cheaper but the grip would be slimmer for CC
I didn't want to bring this up, but so-called "Saturday Night Specials" are numerous and often chambered in .25 ACP because it's relatively easy to do (as guns go, anyway). I never got the impression that this caliber was very popular outside of this market segment, and their low price points certainly helped them proliferate while preserving the common use of the caliber. They don't need a specific brand name (aside from the "Colt" in ACP and Browning's involvement if that matters) or marketing department to be successfully marketed.
Well, obviously not everything makes the same amount of sense to everybody. That's the natural way of things--there's no need to make it more dramatic than it is.
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