How many different calibers?

[goon]

I like simple.
I'm at 8 right now but I could probably get by with five different calibers - maybe less.
I like guns a lot but it does get nuts trying to keep ammo for them all when you have too many different calibers.
IMO, keep the ones you need, the ones you really like, and the ones your dad/grandpa gave you.
The rest...
Sell to buy more ammo for the ones you're keeping.

That's just my $.02.

 

[mongocaver]

21 calibers in about 33 guns or so...

.22 LR
.223
30-06
7.62-39
.308
38 special
9 mm
.357 mag
.40
.44 mag
.45 acp
.45 long colt
.454 casull
45-70
.460 smith and wesson
.475 linebaugh
.480 ruger
50 ae
500 smith and wesson
.410
12 gauge

My opinion is a couple of thousand rounds for each caliber, so that you have plenty for trading if the SHTF...

 

[Rmac58]

Same as Chris in Va, 11 guns, 9 calibers.

 

[Claude Clay]

27 that i load for. plus a baker that i don't

 

[Blackbeard]

Five guns, three calibers -- .22LR, 9mm, .223

 

[Steve Raacke]

11 guns in 5 calibers-
22LR
.380
9mm
.223
12 gauge

 

[TCB in TN]

.22lr (handgun and long gun)
.22mag (long gun)
9mm (handgun and carbine)
.38spcl (handgun)
.45LC (handgun)
.243
30-30
.308
30-06
7.35 carcano


410 gauge
20 gauge
16 gauge
12 gauge

Sad thing is I have traded around and reduced the number of cals in the not to distant past.

 

[maclean]

.22 lr
.38 spl
9mm Para
.45 acp
.223/5.56 Nato
30-30
20 ga.
12 ga.

Layaways and future plans will add:
.22 short & long
.44 spl/mag

So ... 8 current calibers (9 planned) and err, 10 current guns (15 planned). Not too hard to keep track of and all fairly easy to find ammo for. My needs are pretty well filled or will be soon and I'm actually feeling pretty good about my choices.
Jack

 

[JWF III]

To start with I don't have ENOUGH guns. So I had to start with the total number of guns and count backwards for duplicate chamberings. I came up with 56 different cartridges. This may be off a little bit. I'd say I have every bit of 50+. Of all of those the only gun that I can think of that I don't have ammunition for would be the 8mm Nambu.

Wyman

(This also counted .22 short only rifles as firing a different cartridge as a .22lr.)

 

[DrDeFab]

14 calibers.

1 .22
2 .22 WMR
3 9mm
4 .40S&W
5 45ACP
6 .38sp/.357mag
7 7.62x39
8 7.62x54r
9 .308/7.62x51
10 .30-06
11 8mm Mauser
12 .223/5.56 NATO
13 5.45x39
14 12 gauge

No more for me, unless I win the lottery, or an African safari package, or some other low-probability event.

 

[GregGry]

.22lr
9mm
45acp
.223 remington
12 ga

And soon to be .308

I have 5 guns and soon to have 7

 

[Javelin]

Um.... 25.

The only good thing is that many are in the same calibers so it makes stocking up on ammo much easier (12 gauge, 7.62x39, 5.56 & 9mm).

 

[neviander]

4, but the 12 gauge is out of commission at the moment...so 3, that work:
.45 acp
9mm (or 9x19 for you anal folk)
.22 lr

 

[glockman19]

12 calibers for me

 

[Bartkowski]

7mm-08 Rem Mag

Do you mean 7mm rem mag, or 7mm-08?

 

[swiftak]

22lr
223
308
7.62x51
30-06
3030
7.62x39
7.62x25
8mm
9mm
357 mag
7.62x54R
45 auto
44 mag
12 ga
16 ga
410ga
9x18 Mak
7.5x55

 

[polizei36]

.22lr
.32 acp
380 acp
9mm
40 S&W
8mm

 

[357wheelgunner]

1. .38/.357 (all my wheelguns are .357)
2. 9mm
3. 12 gauge
4. .22 LR

I might get a Sig P220 and a Remington 700 in .308, but other than those two I can't see myself ever buying a gun in another caliber.

 

[dmazur]

Mark me down for 8. (Reload 5)

 

[gunNoob]

3 guns, 2 calibers.

 

[zombie666]

7.62 x 54
7.62 x 39
7.62 x 51
.30 06
7.5 French
8 mm Mauser
8 x 56R
6.5 x 55
.22
9 x 18
9 x 19
9 x 23
.45 ACP
.25 ACP
7.62 x 25
7.63 x 25
7.62 Nagant
.38 Special
.357 Magnum
.44 Magnum
12 Guage
.30 carbine
303 British
And looking to add more

 

[NonConformist]

Lets see...

5.56

12ga

.40

.45

.303

.30 Carbine

and I used to have 8mm, 7.62x39 and .308


so at one time I had 8, now Im down to 6

 

[jad0110]

6:

22LR
38 Special (reload)
357 Mag (reload)
45 ACP (reload)
12 Gauge
5.56 NATO (may reload eventually)

Plus I keep 7.62 x 39 handy to use in my father's SKS. And I bought some 7.62 x 54r recently, as I figure I'll be adding a Mosin to my collection in the next year or so .

 

[pakmcc]

different cal.

I really don't know how many that I lhave, but I have about 16 tool heads for pistols and about 16 rifle tool heads for my Dillon 550B I have NO shotguns, none at all. and about four .22's
I reload every thing from .380 to .30-06 and a whole bunch inbetween.
all my rifles are mil. spec. rifles, bolt(straight bolts included) and semi-automatic, no civilian rifles or cal,
Pat,

 

[gnut]

10--
22
22mag
38
9mm
41mag
410
12gauge
7.62x39
7.62x54r
50 muzzleloader
various pellet/potato launchers