Whats the cartridge you LOVE to HATE?

[Craveman85]

Problem with the wsm was a guy had a patent on the design originally and got royalties from everyone that used it. At least that's what I read somewhere. I used to be on the fence about it but when I was looking for a new rifle the 300 wsm checked all my boxes. 30 cal with no belt. More oomph than 308, and available early on in covid. But I usually tend to like cartridges when they're not so popular. I built my 260 remington right before the 6.5 craze started.

WSM cartridges never got the support they needed or lived up to the hype

 

[Batsin]

I've got a bit of that with the 6.5 CM. I own two at the moment - and it's a great round - but it's not quite as awesome as the hype. On the other hand, not even 50 BMG loaded with depleted uranium can do the things that the 6.5 CM of the interwebz can do…

Nah. You're just not using it right! Why, why, one time I shot over the berm and after it went all the way around the world, the bullet almost hit me in the back of the head!

 

[QuietTexan]

But I usually tend to like cartridges when they're not so popular.

I have this problem. For some reason I refuse to buy standard SAAMI spec reamers I just can't justify the cost unless it's at least an AI, if not some other stupid changes just to make it fun.

6.5 Rocky (Gibbs neck on RUM case), 6 WSM, 20 WSSM, 17-223 AI, 22 Dasher, 30XC. Just something fun about something not a lot of people have, or if it's up and coming like the 22 Dasher I can get there before it's standardized. I'm surprised I have so many 6.5CMs when the 260 AI is better IMO.


I still hate the 308 Win Little girly round because the flower power kids of the 1960s and 1970s couldn't handle the 30-06. That said I did buy a 308 barreled action from JA Outdoors, dropped it (unbedded) into a Greyboe stock, took 5 shots to zero, then shot #6 killed a pig. Sweet little rig carbon barrel, ultralight stock, AB reflex suppressor, 100 yard pop shot right into the ear hole off a fork in a mesquite tree branch.

6.5 Creedmoor would have turned the pig inside out. I'm scared to run Hammers through it because it might open a black hole.

 

[crm3006]

Once again an opinion.

Informed and educated opinion.

 

[Taj]

I have this problem. For some reason I refuse to buy standard SAAMI spec reamers I just can't justify the cost unless it's at least an AI, if not some other stupid changes just to make it fun.

22 Dasher I can get there before it's standardized.

How about a .22-243 Middlestead?? I have the reamer.

 

[Grumpah]

25 auto, 30 carbine, 45/70 and anything millenial because I don't believe in magic.

 

[ButterBean]

Informed and educated opinion.

And that's your opinion, the same as any other

 

[ButterBean]

How about a .22-243 Middlestead?? I have the reamer.

The Middlestead is a Bad Egg, I still have brass

 

[Taj]

The Middlestead is a Bad Egg, I still have brass

Brother, I've been working with mine lately and so far I kind of like it. Not sure how long the barrel is going to last, but so far so good. Getting good some pretty good groups with IMR 4350 (have a bunch of it) with 62 -64 grain bullets. Haven't played with heavier VLD's yet. That's next on the list.

 

[QuietTexan]

How about a .22-243 Middlestead??

I did 20 WSSM instead

 

[LRNut]

Problem with the wsm was a guy had a patent on the design originally and got royalties from everyone that used it. At least that's what I read somewhere. I used to be on the fence about it but when I was looking for a new rifle the 300 wsm checked all my boxes. 30 cal with no belt. More oomph than 308, and available early on in covid. But I usually tend to like cartridges when they're not so popular. I built my 260 remington right before the 6.5 craze started.

That guy is Rick Jamison; he sued Winchester and was promptly let go from Shooting Times magazine.

 

[Airedale56]

It has to be the .300 Bee /.300 BEE.

I've read it in print about guys that extoll its virtue on big game.

I know about the .218 Bee and the .218 Mashburn Bee.

Photo Credit Handloader Magazine



But looking at the cartridge dimensions of the parent .218 Bee,

Credit Hornady for the drawing




necking up to .308" from .224" and even running a 110 grain bullet really would drop velocity below what most bullets would need to expand.


My tongue is I'm my cheek, of course.


Based on my understanding of the history of Wildcatting and Nomenclature of cartridges, that should be a .300 Bee.



Folks who call a .300 Weatherby (a proper name) a .300 Bee are too lazy to shorten it to .300 WBY and give the inventor his due.

Just my opinion.

 

[memtb]

That guy is Rick Jamison; he sued Winchester and was promptly let go from Shooting Times magazine.

Rick got screwed over pretty badly by Winchester and Shooting Times. memtb