TN Outlaw
Member
I love all the great caliber/cartridge debates. Mainly just for debate though, paper ballistics and whatnot. Any firearm related topic is fun to discuss, even ad nauseum.
The pure and simple truth in my eyes is most everyone has their preference reguardless of the facts. Most come up with their "cartridge of choice" because of their 1st gun or what their daddy swore by or because some annoying person always bragged about a different cartridge etc. Then they try to look up facts to justify this one cartridge as "the one" after already making their decision.
So many irrational dislikes of cartridge or calibers and a Mt of opinion goes into these choices and debates and being that each of us have the right to choose based on whatever criteria we so choose, we are always correct on our choice. Wether that's paper performance or just to be different.
I personally am a fan of all cartridges to a certain extent and I'm fairly unbiased. I don't "hate" any that I can think of. I don't enjoy using a cartridge that is impractical for the task and I don't choose one that is too little or way too much horsepower for the job either. If a man has to buy over the counter ammo, it's his money but doesn't make much sense to pay more for oddball ammo and drive all over just to find it and when you do find it they only have one or two choices.
So I guess I'm just a practical person. I really like the 7mm-08/270/280 bullet size/wt/vel range for the kind of whitetail hunting I do. They all have shown out with 140gr-160gr bullets in my experience but I rarely load anymore so I buy shelf ammo and I see 270win ammo 5 to 1 in my neck of the woods and that's why I usually hunt with it.
Everybody needs to pick what suits them best with whatever criteria they so choose with their kind of hunting. With most of the common cartridges there's no one best cartridge out there, just what each person prefers.
The pure and simple truth in my eyes is most everyone has their preference reguardless of the facts. Most come up with their "cartridge of choice" because of their 1st gun or what their daddy swore by or because some annoying person always bragged about a different cartridge etc. Then they try to look up facts to justify this one cartridge as "the one" after already making their decision.
So many irrational dislikes of cartridge or calibers and a Mt of opinion goes into these choices and debates and being that each of us have the right to choose based on whatever criteria we so choose, we are always correct on our choice. Wether that's paper performance or just to be different.
I personally am a fan of all cartridges to a certain extent and I'm fairly unbiased. I don't "hate" any that I can think of. I don't enjoy using a cartridge that is impractical for the task and I don't choose one that is too little or way too much horsepower for the job either. If a man has to buy over the counter ammo, it's his money but doesn't make much sense to pay more for oddball ammo and drive all over just to find it and when you do find it they only have one or two choices.
So I guess I'm just a practical person. I really like the 7mm-08/270/280 bullet size/wt/vel range for the kind of whitetail hunting I do. They all have shown out with 140gr-160gr bullets in my experience but I rarely load anymore so I buy shelf ammo and I see 270win ammo 5 to 1 in my neck of the woods and that's why I usually hunt with it.
Everybody needs to pick what suits them best with whatever criteria they so choose with their kind of hunting. With most of the common cartridges there's no one best cartridge out there, just what each person prefers.
