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Favorite caliber, not cartridge!

Up until the last 8 years I have only shot 3 calibers. 22, 26 and 27cal and have been a big 26cal fan. I currently have 4 different 26cal cartridges, so I'll say 26 is my favorite! Fun to shoot and low recoil. What say you on your favorite caliber?
 
My favorite caliber without a doubt is the 7.62x54. I have had a number of Mosin-Nagant rifles over the years and this caliber is a bona-fide hoot.

I get a "kick" out of the 7.62x54 like no other and I mean that literally. Firing this caliber not only devastates whatever it hits, but makes a unique blast that is sure to draw attention at any range. I remember other shooters coming over to me at the range asking what sort of canon I had!

When I think of this caliber historically, all I can say is that I feel sorry for those German soldiers being on the receiving end while serving on the Russian front.
 
My favorite "caliber", not "cartridge" is the 6.5mm, aka .256 "lands-diameter" or also known as .264 aka 6.7mm "bore (groove) -diameter".


Metric and US customary caliber
InchMetric Typical bullet diameter
.225.6 mm0.223 in, 5.6 mm
.2245.7 mm0.224 in, 5.7 mm
.2436 mm0.243 in, 6 mm
.256.35 mm0.257 in, 6.35 mm

.266.5 mm0.264 in, 6.7 mm
.276.8 mm0.277 in, 7.035 mm
.2847 mm0.284 in, 7.213 mm
.3087.62 mm0.308 in, 7.82 mm

.3117.9 mm 0.311 in, 7.92 mm
.3127.94 mm0.312 in, 7.94 mm
.3238 mm0.323 in, 8.2 mm
.3388.6 mm0.308 in, 8.6 mm

.3559 mm0.355 in, 9 mm
.3569 mm0.356 in, 9 mm
.3579 mm0.357 in, 9 mm
.4010 mm0.400 in, 9 mm

.4410.9 mm0.429 in
.4511.43 mm0.451 - 0.454 in
.5012.7 mm0.510 in, 12.95 mm
 
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The Mosin is fun. The 8mm Mauser is no slouch, either, though I converted mine to .308 with a #7 contour barrel. I have no pity for the Wermacht. Wrong side and all that.

You'd have thought that even if Hitler forgot, someone would have remembered that Napolean had already tried invading Russia in the winter time.
 
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You'd have thought that even if Hitler forgot, someone would have remembered that Napolean had already tried invading Russia in the winter time.
Yeah, that was a hilariously bad idea. Nothing good ever comes from invading Russia. Those people are hard as nails as the winters are worth millions of soldiers
 
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Yeah, that was a hilariously bad idea. Nothing good ever comes from invading Russia. Those people are hard as nails as the winters are worth millions of soldiers

Not a good place to invade, for sure. My grandfather was a Russian Cossack. They had so much fun. They'd go out and conquer some territory for the Czar, then party for awhile...then conquer...then party...
 
Mine in pistol is 40/10mm. In rifle it was 30 cal. but now that I have used my 6.5 Creedmoor it is soon becoming my favorite.
 
I got pretty close to some Muscovites not to long ago. They spent the first 15+ years of their lives behind the Iron Curtain. Decades in San Francisco still haven't made them soft.
 
Close second is 12 gauge.

Gauge & caliber are not synonomous

Shotguns are classed according to gauge, a related expression. The gauge of a shotgun refers to how many lead spheres, each with a diameter equal to that of the bore, amount to one pound (approximately 454 grams) in weight. In the case of a 12-gauge shotgun, it would take 12 spheres the size of the shotgun's bore to equal a pound
 
Gauge & caliber are not synonomous

Shotguns are classed according to gauge, a related expression. The gauge of a shotgun refers to how many lead spheres, each with a diameter equal to that of the bore, amount to one pound (approximately 454 grams) in weight. In the case of a 12-gauge shotgun, it would take 12 spheres the size of the shotgun's bore to equal a pound
That's absolutely correct, and surprisingly not a lot of folks know or understand that. However it doesn't extend to what we know as the 410 shotgun, which is in fact a .41 caliber.

That was a little thing we used to share with kids during a hunter safety program and the kids/youngsters loved to call out their dads and grandpas with their new knowledge. (y)(y)
 
That's absolutely correct, and surprisingly not a lot of folks know or understand that. However it doesn't extend to what we know as the 410 shotgun, which is in fact a .41 caliber.

That was a little thing we used to share with kids during a hunter safety program and the kids/youngsters loved to call out their dads and grandpas with their new knowledge. (y)(y)
Yes and a 410 is not a gauge most wouldn't say.
 
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