Rifle cartridges you dislike for no real reason

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This is the inverse of @marksman13 thread on why you might like under performing, or obsolete cartridges.

This thread, why do you dislike otherwise perfectly capable, otherwise popular cartridges?

I'll kick it off with my two choices, which I'm sure will get someone riled up but let's try and keep it light hearted.

30-06, outside of 200gr loads it dosen't really do anything a 308win won't, out of a bigger, heavier gun. In >180gr or less loadings, the two are close enough in performance that's there's practically no difference.

270win, yes it's a nice flat shooting cartridge. Not terrible on recoil. Kills game dead. But compared to cartridges on either side, 6.5 or 7mm the twist is too slow to use nice heavy bullets, limited to about 150gr give or take. Not that I plan on frequently loading VLDs or 175gr RNSP's in my 280Rem, but I have the option.

So what's your "Yeah, it's a good cartridge, but I just can't abide it"- cartridges?
 
I’m glad you started this thread. These threads always end up with some real cool answers and conversation.

7mm Rem Mag and 300 BLK. Fine cartridges that fill their roles well. I just don’t like them. I actually loath the 300 BLK and it’s communist cousin the 7.62x39. No honest reason for it.
 
Sooner or later all of the same cartridges in this thread

Rifle Cartridge You Love for No Real Reason
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Will be named in this thread.

There are some that I like where I can't give a rational reason. But there are none that I truly dislike. Some are over-rated, some just don't fill a need for me. But I don't dislike any of them.
 
The 25-06 - for no real reason that I can think of. Probably it's just because there was a guy at work that I didn't like, and he swore by his "aught-six" (as he called it). I've always figured the term "aught-six" meant "thirty aught-six," not some new-fangled pip-squeak of a cartridge.;)
BTW, in the early '60s when I first became interested in big-game hunting cartridges, the 25-06 was years away from being invented (at least commercialized) yet, and even though the 7mm Remington Magnum was around, when someone said they had a "7mm," they meant they had a 7mm Mauser - not a 7mm Rem Mag like they mean nowadays.o_O
 
270 win. Can't stand it, and I have no valid reason. Probably because I haven't owned one.

243, the same thing. Too much boom for the performance. Short barrel life. Blah blah blah. Don't know why I don't like it.

223 kinda falls in this category too, but I've probably owned more rifles in 223/5.56 than all others. Trying to like it...
 
adcoch1 said:
270 win. Can't stand it, and I have no valid reason. Probably because I haven't owned one.
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Maybe, but I did own one for a while, and I'm still not all that fond of the 270. I traded my 270 off for a 30-06 because I figured I could do everything and more with a 30-06 that I was doing with a 270. I even saw it in print somewhere that the great 270 lover, Jack O'Conner admitted that the 30-06 was more versatile.;)
 
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300 Ham'r, just because of the name. Don't know squat about it's performance, availability, ease of reloading, etc. Just don't like the name. If it were 300 Hammer, all good. Ham'r??? No.

Fully aware of how irrational that is, chuckling at myself while typing this :rofl:
 
As soon as I read the title .223 / 5.56 immediately came to mind. Like @adcoch1 I have tried to like it, but I don’t. It reminds me of a souped up little Nissan with a loud fart muffler. Makes a lot of noise and flash, goes pretty fast and it just might dent the wall in an impact…maybe…
 
I have been turned off of a cartridge by its proponents, but not usually with its capabilities…

270Win, obviously.;)

35 caliber rifle cartridges of any delineation, small to large. A 351 is not an ultra deer killer, it is a rusty antique. And if your mom wasn’t so damn cheap you wouldn’t have to walk all the way out to her blind to fix the stupid thing, spooking the only shootable buck in the county, because she would have raised you to buy her something nice, Marv!:p

And the 17Super Magnum. All the pizzazz of a cheap plastic rifle, packed with bolt spitting pressures, coupled with the reliability of rimfire, and then mated to an ear splitting report.
For use around the house…:confused:

So, without the human interaction, these would just be cartridges.
But as it stands, they are the bane to my existence!:D
 
Anything that is touted as the latest and greatest. I’m not even 40. But until there’s some kind of revolution in the ammo industry, it really seems like they’re just putting a different lipstick on the same old pig.

edited because autocorrect and I are old adversaries.
 
Great thread. For me, 6.5 Creedmoor, 350 Legend, 300 Blackout and all the other cartridges cooked up in the marketing department rather than Engineering. I’ve been around long enough to learn there really isn’t anything new under the Sun. Marketing comes up with a new cartridge to fill a niche that has been filled multiple times already.
I would make the case that, depending on one’s use-case, everything developed (promoted) in the last ~40 years is redundant.
Now, for a totally baseless prejudice, I have a strong preference for 5.56 over 223. Yeah I know, essentially the same, but still…
 
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