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.