Rifle Cartridge You Love for No Real Reason

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Anybody have a rifle cartridge that you are infatuated with for no real reason? For me it’s the 257 Weatherby Magnum. I guess I’ll always have a rifle of some flavor chambered in the 257 Roy, but I can’t really explain why. My 300 PRC is better suited for long range hunting. My various 6.5s, 308s and 7mm-08s are all better suited for hunting at more traditional ranges. The 257 WM eats barrels, is expensive to shoot and can be pretty fussy about ammo. The .25 cal bullets don’t buck wind particularly well. There’s just nothing about that screams, “Hey! Pick me as your favorite!” But, I love it all the same. I like non-standard cartridges and to me, that 257 Weatherby Magnum is about as non-standard as it gets. Anybody else have a cartridge like that?
 
I tend to be hyper-rational about most things, so I can’t think of any cartridge I truly enjoy without objective reason - largely because I like what I like because they’re great for doing whatever it is that I like to do.

I suppose 17WSM is a cartridge I can’t truly, objectively rationalize for any particular application. Yes, it’s the world’s fastest Rimfire, but I can do more with a 223 for only slightly more cost, and do ALMOST as much with a 22LR for less cost, so I like it really only because I pretend shooting bunnies farther and farther out there without going to a centerfire makes it objectively advantaged.
 
Varminterror said:
I tend to be hyper-rational about most things, so I can’t think of any cartridge I truly enjoy without objective reason - largely because I like what I like because they’re great for doing whatever it is that I like to do.

I suppose 17WSM is a cartridge I can’t truly, objectively rationalize for any particular application. Yes, it’s the world’s fastest Rimfire, but I can do more with a 223 for only slightly more cost, and do ALMOST as much with a 22LR for less cost, so I like it really only because I pretend shooting bunnies farther and farther out there without going to a centerfire makes it objectively advantaged.
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That’s fair. I’m pretty rational about most of my choices, but I have an un-natural affinity for uncommon cartridges in uncommon rifles. 6.8 SPC, 257 Weatherby, 250 Savage, 22 Hornet and 6.5x55 all have a place in my safe. I just like going against the grain sometimes.
 
I bought a Weatherby S2 Vanguard in 257 Wby as soon as I could get one. I knew it was Roy Weatherby’s favorite cartridge. I had other rifles that would make deer go flop dead, but I thought the 257 Roy would be good to have. It happens to love 100 grain Swift Sciroccos and is bang-flop on White tails. It also likes the handloads I feed it so I can’t complain.
 
mcb said:
30 Remington AR, that poor bastard of a cartridge sums up 204 years of the former Remington Arms Company (RIP), and no other rational reason to like it...
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I was always intrigued by that cartridge and I wish anyone other than Remington had released it. I ended up going the 6.8 SPC route and I’m afraid it is also headed to the graveyard.
 
High Plains said:
I bought a Weatherby S2 Vanguard in 257 Wby as soon as I could get one. I knew it was Roy Weatherby’s favorite cartridge. I had other rifles that would make deer go flop dead, but I thought the 257 Roy would be good to have. It happens to love 100 grain Swift Sciroccos and is bang-flop on White tails. It also likes the handloads I feed it so I can’t complain.
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With newer, heavier weights now being offered, I may have to re-barrel. I always felt the 25s were handicapped because they weren’t twisted fast enough.
 
I like the 257s too. Took the 257 Roberts to the range Friday and I had forgotten how perfectly delightful the recoil is. More than the 223 that just doesn’t do much, but not the 30-06 that makes you smile and feel powerful the first 5 shots but after 20 in a light hunting rifle you’re trying to justify every shot.
 
300 H&H Magnum for me. Archaic and while the parent of the belted magnum case, it is nearly impossible to find brass for.

I paid $1.00 a shell for new brass last year in a LGS. Only because the owner had been sitting on it for 3 years. He was asking $65 for 50, I picked up two out of 3 boxes due to budget constraints. He told me if I wanted all 3 boxes he would accept $150. I couldn't not buy them.

While old and ungainly,it's a pretty accurate setup.
 
7mm Mauser for me.
I've had a few old Mausers in this caliber, and I just like how they shoot.
Not a 100 year old rifle, but the cartridge itself.
It kinda reminds me of... myself.
It's an old as dirt, and retired from the military.
Although it's not the best at any one thing, but it's good enough for most all things.
Jack of all trades, so to speak.
It's also one that very few people shoot these days, and sometimes it's cool just to have something everybody else doesn't.
I like the round so much, I had to have a modern rifle chambered in it. Enter the Remington 700 Classic.
 
30-30. The second American smokeless cartridge, a lever gun standard, and a slayer of deers and bears in my native New England. Lots of more modern cartridges (there were lots of them when it debuted) and lots more powerful; but I just like it.
 
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