Your favourite calibre

[Fry]

A topic just for fun.

Doesn't have to be justified, but can be if you want.

Favourite calibre? For whatever reason you like...

[MeccaOz]

.257 Weatherby Magnum

[Westy]

6.5x55 Swede just big enough without being overkill on most pests in Oz

[Baldrick314]

Might be a bit vanilla but I'm a 308W fan. Cheap, plentiful, accurate and mild recoil

[Mark TAC]

.222.
It uses not much more than half the powder of my .22/250 - but at only 300fps less no animal knows the difference. Less noise too, and almost all loads are accurate. Plus in a normal hunting rifle it feels like swinging around a Hornet or .22mag - so light, mega short action, cheap. Real good fun change from heavy kick arse tactical rifles and muzzle brakes and 3x the powder :-0

[wrenchman]

3006 here it has the most factory loads and you can get a factory round for any thing you might want to hunt from a 90 grain bullet to a 220 grain round nose for the largest of game and if you hand load sky is the limit for tailoring the load.

It is my fav rifle round but I think 308 is starting to over take it for the same reason I gave for the 06.

[Lorgar]

Might be a bit vanilla but I'm a 308W fan. Cheap, plentiful, accurate and mild recoil

I'm gunna say 7mm-08.

99% as vanilla

[inervate]

3006 here it has the most factory loads and you can get a factory round for any thing you might want to hunt from a 90 grain bullet to a 220 grain round nose for the largest of game and if you hand load sky is the limit for tailoring the load.

It is my fav rifle round but I think 308 is starting to over take it for the same reason I gave for the 06.

That's interesting... Would have thought especially in America that the .308 would be the most common, with your military being the ones using most of the ammo.

[Khan]

More need for larger calibres like the 30-06 in North America compared to here is my guess.

Moose, Elk, dangerous game etc. All things we don't have here that you'd want more bang on.

That's my guess.

[mausermate]

I've got a lot of calibers but I'm a big fan of my 7x57R at the moment. Lots of projectiles to choose from and really nice to shoot. Bit underrated I recon, load data is usually very conservative due to its chambering in old military rifles but its a real performer.

[wrenchman]

Inervate it might be the most popular now and it don't hurt that they chamber it in the AR action.

But I like the 06 I don't think there is a thing the 06 can do that a 308 can't to I just like the 06.

It is still the round with the most factory loads here.

[NukeBOMB88]

.204 is by far my favourite . It's the absolute best calibre that I have ever shot IMHO. I just love it for the foxes and bunnies! I know that a lot of people disagree but that's my opinion.

[Atter]

.22LR cause you can do it all long for bugger all coin

[Chronos]

7mm, anything in 7mm. (You did ask for caliber and not favourite cartridge)

That said I'm quickly becoming a fan of the 6mm caliber, bullet weights to do anything from varmints to long range targets.

Chronos

[mausermate]

7mm, anything in 7mm. (You did ask for caliber and not favourite cartridge)

That said I'm quickly becoming a fan of the 6mm caliber, bullet weights to do anything from varmints to long range targets.

Chronos

ever tried the 7mm Vom Hoff? a mate has one. Absolute rocket!

[Chronos]

7mm, anything in 7mm. (You did ask for caliber and not favourite cartridge)

That said I'm quickly becoming a fan of the 6mm caliber, bullet weights to do anything from varmints to long range targets.

Chronos

ever tried the 7mm Vom Hoff? a mate has one. Absolute rocket!

No, never heard of it until you made made google it

"The hottest 7 mm Super Express fired a 155 grain bullet with a muzzle energy of 4224 ft/lb (584 kg/m)..... more than a 300 RUM and close to the monstrous 30-378 Weatherby introduced more than 60 years later...

No other 7 mm cartridge can hold a candle to such load."

Sounds like an excuse to replace barrels every year

To be honest the 7-08 performs as well as or better than a 7X57 and my .284win should also beat the 7x64 for performance. If I wanted more speed a 7mm rem mag would be a step up again but I'd be burning 50% more powder than the .284win and it's already capable of pushing a 180gr bullet at around 2900fps

Chronos

[on_one_wheel]

I can't decide... But if I was to have all my guns taken from me but one, I think I would keep the 12 gauge and forever morn the loss of the others.

[on_one_wheel]

I can't decide... But if I was to have all my guns taken from me but one, I think I would keep the 12 gauge and forever morn the loss of the others.

[Hennie Dreyer]

.308W

[Norty_Country_Bloke]

.220 Swift or .25-06 Remington.

[1290]

just so its clear for me... was the question about favourite calibre or favourite chambering?
if its favourite calibre its 0.45....
but If its favourite chambering its 458Lott

[mausermate]

.220 Swift or .25-06 Remington.

so.... which one?

[Monty]

Favourite calibre is the one you don't have yet

[mausermate]

Favourite calibre is the one you don't have yet

ain't that the truth

[inspector]

And the ones you're not allowed.

Or kill your shoulder to fire so you don't use

[MrClark]

.30-06 for me, only because I'm comfortable with the recoil, I can fit 5 rounds in the mag as opposed to 3/4 for a .300 and nearly have as much power (not that the power is required for what it's used for), it's accurate for me, ballistics while their not as impressive as magnums or .270's or .25's is damn fine for a hunting rifle that really the longest shot for me would be 400m (and really isn't that what that little dial on top of your scope is for? Hahaha) and ammo is everywhere. But a .308 or .270 would be fine for what I do to, just love the history of the 06

[Hennie Dreyer]

.308

[beerhog]

22 lr. I would have to shoot at least 500 rounds from my 22 for any one round out of my centrefires.cheap fun and effective within its limits.

[bigfellascott]

Mine at the moment is the 204 - such a nice little cal to shoot foxes, rabbits and other vermin with

[Warrigul]

.303