Too many calibers?

[BagsandBullets]

For my part I was referring to rifle cartridges with 2-3, and that’s just my goal. If you include everything I’m looking at more like 6-7. But there’s nothing wrong with having a lot of “fun” cartridges also. It’s just not an optimal use of my funds at the moment.

 

[freezer003]

I'm actually more curious as to why you think 3 calibers is already "extra and not needed"
I guess personally I like specialized tools for specific jobs, so I like a bunch of options on the shelf. But I also agree you've got some good mid and heavy options. Maybe consider barreling the 270 to 308. Then you have a lighter option, but it's still a 30 cal like your others. Assuming you reload, at least now you can slim down on bullet diameters on the shelf.

 

[BagsandBullets]

I'm actually more curious as to why you think 3 calibers is already "extra and not needed"
I guess personally I like specialized tools for specific jobs, so I like a bunch of options on the shelf. But I also agree you've got some good mid and heavy options. Maybe consider barreling the 270 to 308. Then you have a lighter option, but it's still a 30 cal like your others. Assuming you reload, at least now you can slim down on bullet diameters on the shelf.

As it pertains to the original post, I was just saying that if he didn’t need a .270 and it didn’t fill a use case that his other rifles couldn’t fill, then there isn’t a point in keeping it. But it sounds like for him it is a light recoiling option so it fills a use case, and it’s a cool gun.

For me personally, I don’t have anything on the docket right now that I can’t accomplish with one of my 3 rifle cartridges (300 BO, 6.5CM, 300WSM) and I would rather buy more guns with those cartridges that fit different use cases, then buy new guns with different cartridges. As in, buy a short 300 BO, buy a 6.5CM pistol, buy a long-barrel 6.5CM, etc. But that’s just me. I also don’t reload or get much into custom loads, so if that scratches your itch then I totally get wanting a bunch of cartridges to test out.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Too many calibers? NEVER

 

[Cherokeeguide]

I did not expect that the # for too many calibers (*cartridges) was going to be 3. That seems like an admirable and sensible target to me!

It seemed to make all kinds of sense to me 18 months ago.


Being an old geezer with my adventurous hooved-game hunting behind me, I settled on 5.56 NATO, .22 LR, and 28 gauge as the cartridges to carry me through my twilight years to the end of my days. The firearms I decided to use them with were a home-assembled AR-15 A4 style rifle, a 4.5" barrel Hammerli H1 Forge .22 LR pistol, and a Yildiz Legacy HP Over and Under shotgun. I sold off the rest of what was an embarrassingly large firearms collection, operating under the principle that if you want something done right, you're better off doing it yourself. I've seen how the gun collections of former hunting "pards" became useless, burdensome junk to survivors when said "pards" rotated off the Mortal Coil, I didn't want to leave my wife with that burden.

But friends and relations kept dying and kept leaving me stuff in their wills.

So, now I have added back .308 Winchester, 9mm, .44 Remington Magnum,
and 12 gauge after inheriting a Remington 740, a Beretta 92F, a Ruger Redhawk, a Belgian Browning Diana Grade Superposed, along with a Mini-14, an A y A No.2 side-lock 28 gauge shotgun, a Ruger Mark 1 Target .22 pistol, and Anschutz M-54 .22 LR sporter, and a Model 64 Winchester in .30-30.

Out of that inherited stuff, I only shoot the Anschutz .22 rifle, the 92F, and the two shotguns.

 

[bnewt3]

As the saying goes "dont leave animals to find animals"

I would tweak it in your case "dont sell a shooter to find a shooter".

 

[Kenai_dtracker]

I did consider selling both the browning and tikka and getting something a tad higher end, or even a zippy PRC, but still up in the air on that. It is nice to have a couple rifles that can essentially do the same thing.

 

[KenLee]

What's crazy is that Remington is not making the 7600's anymore. So these $400 guns from 20 plus years ago are now selling for crazy amounts.

They went from $250 to $800 in the Southeast over last 10 yrs.

 

[KenLee]

Sell everything and get down to 2 calibers. I had over 12 different chamberings. I have since narrowed down to 4 chambers but 3 calibers.

223/556 0-300 yards for anything I want to hunt
6.5 Grendel 0-400 yards everything
6.5 CM. 0-600 yard for everything
308. As some ranches I hunt will not allow a 6.5CM Yeah I know


I was tired of having too many boxes of ammo on the shelf and trying to remember what shot what well. I narrowed it down and shooting is more enjoyable.

IMO Pic the two you want to spend your life with and buy more ammo those two prefer.

Blasphemy

 

[KenLee]

I have a self induced dilemma. I have a bunch of inherited rifles from my dad, and two Remington pump 7600 30-06 carbines that are staying put. I also have a Browning A-bolt II in 300wsm and a recently bought Tikka lite T3X in 270win. I'm a lefty, so the Browning and Tikka are both left handed bolts and have each taken a bull elk.

The 270 has no sentimental value, but the browning I've had for over 20 years, shot plenty of deer with, and will probably keep. I'm thinking rebarreling the Tikka 270 to 30-06, or sell it and buy the same in 30-06 or 300 wsm. I do like the 270 win, and man it was nice at the range compared to the 300 wsm, but I just feel like it's an extra caliber that's not needed.

Put a limbsaver or Pachmeyr decellerator on the 300wsm

 

[KenLee]

Why have "almost an ought-six" when you've already got the real thing? I've owned a few rifles in .270 Winchester, but only because way back in the wayback when, before Al Gore invented the Internet, I wanted a particular rifle (Ruger No.1 B, Interarms Whitworth Mauser) in .30-'06 but, not finding one locally, settled for the .270 Winchester version in stock. I've got nothing against the .270 Winchester and filled seven elk tags with it but it didn't do anything for me that a .30-'06 couldn't do.

I would agree that if you have a 300 WSM, having a .270 Winchester is kind of superfluous.

I don't understand this part, though:





I get that the .270 Winchester, .30-'06, and 300 WSM look different on ballistics tables, but they all do the same thing in the real world and a properly-placed shot with any of those three is going to kill any North American hooved game animal stone-cold dead.

I'd sell the Tikka .270 and not buy another Tikka, personally. I know they're all the rage on this forum, and personal taste is just that, but I'd rather get my A-Bolt II Medallion in .257 Roberts back, or have ANY A-Bolt II Medallion, than a Tikka.

I don't see what a Tikka is going to do that an A-Bolt II can't.

I thought the penalty for selling a Bob medallion was death by firing squad ,)